Skeptophilia

It's all too easy to dismiss conspiracy theorists as just being dumb, and heaven knows I've fallen into that often enough myself. Pa...

The eminent physicist Stephen Hawking said, "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge." S...

I've written before about the Dunning-Kruger effect , the cognitive bias that gives rise to the perception that everyone you ask will ve...

I've written before about the Dunning-Kruger effect , the cognitive bias that gives rise to the perception that everyone you ask will v...