Skeptophilia

I've got a medication for you to take.  Here are the ingredients: nux vomica  -- the seed of the plant Strychnos nux-vomica , the natura...

Because there's no idiotic idea that can't be made even more ridiculous by blending it with another idiotic idea, today we consider ...

Every time I think homeopathy can't get more ridiculous, I turn out to be wrong. I thought they'd plunged to the bottom of the Cra...

There comes a point when there is absolutely no reason to continue investigating a claim for which there is no evidence (or significant evid...

If you needed any further evidence that homeopathy is complete lunacy, take a look at this page wherein we find the description of a homeopa...

In response to my post a couple of days ago about the tendency of people to believe loony ideas if they're couched in ten-dollar vocabul...

It seems like mostly what I cover in this blog is bad news. People believing crazy stuff, bizarre actions people take (or refuse to take) ...

I think the homeopaths have reached some kind of Derp-vana this week with the announcement by British practitioner Grace DaSilva-Hill that ...

I was just thinking about a study I read about years ago, done by Charles Lord, Lee Ross, and Mark Lepper back in 1979.  Called " Biase...

Following on the heels of my post yesterday regarding how much smarter and saner the conspiracy theorists are than us skeptics, today we wil...

Let me just say, right up front, that I love my students. They never fail to give me some optimism for humanity's future.  It's tr...