Skeptophilia

Authors reveal more in their work, sometimes, than they may have intended. That thought crossed my mind more than once while reading the boo...

I ran across two stories yesterday that fall squarely into the "You People Do Realize You Have Bigger Problems To Worry About, Right?...

Rosalind Franklin has become justly famous for her role in discovering the three-dimensional structure of the DNA double helix.  Her specia...

Sometimes a piece of research makes me simultaneously think, "Okay, that's pretty interesting," and "Oh, no, this is not ...

New from the "They Needed A Grant To Figure This Out?" department, we have: a study showing that LGBTQ individuals who have underg...

New from the "What The Hell Did You Think  Was Going To Happen?" department, we have: states that have passed "Religious Free...

There have been some interesting, and all too predictable, responses to a study that appeared in the  Archives of Sexual Behavior  this week...

Lately, it's seemed like the leaders of the conservative Christian Right have been going out of their way to make patently ridiculous st...

You would think that after this many years of writing Skeptophilia , I'd be completely inured to weird ideas, that nothing would shock m...