Skeptophilia

After Thursday's post about nonexistent islands, a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  asked me if I'd ever heard of the country of Listen...

One of the most insidious tendencies in human nature is the way we gravitate toward simple answers to complicated questions. I got started t...

Humans are boundlessly curious, and that's a good thing.  Our drive to understand, to cure our ignorance about the world around us, is t...

Way back in 1980, biochemist, writer, and polymath Isaac Asimov wrote something that is even more accurate today than it was back then: Ther...

Because evidently my generally abysmal opinion of the intelligence of the human species isn't low enough, yesterday a loyal reader sent ...

A few days ago I was casting about for topics for Skeptophilia , and was perusing that amazing clearinghouse for everything from the profoun...

My dad used to say that ignorance was only skin deep, but stupid goes all the way to the bone. There's a lot to that.  Ignorance can be ...

My dad used to say that ignorance was only skin deep, but stupid goes all the way to the bone. There's a lot to that.  Ignorance can b...

I bet you think you know what science is for. I bet you subscribe to such ideas as "science is a means for understanding the universe...