Skeptophilia

Popular media make me crazy sometimes. It's intensely frustrating to see science misrepresented by news outlets, and people unquestion...

Some days, being an optimist is a losing proposition. In previous posts, I have outlined the evidence supporting the claim that hydrofrack...

I try not to let my skepticism slide over into cynicism.  The latter, a disbelieve-everything-they-say approach, seems to me to be as funda...

Assessing risk is a complicated thing.  The technical definition of risk -- that it is equal to the statistical probability of exposure mult...

Yesterday there was yet another article about an accident at a hydrofracking site.  In this one, an Ohio fracking well sprung a leak , causi...

Every once in a while, while considering topics for Skeptophilia , I run into a belief, claim, or point of view that is so completely foreig...

Diane Tessman is at it again.  Yes, the woman who believes that clouds are camouflage for UFOs, who believes that organisms evolve, Pokémon-...