Skeptophilia

The controversy and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines have brought the anti-vaxx movement back into the spotlight, and once a...

I'm fully in support of pure research, which should be obvious to anyone who is a regular reader of Skeptophilia .  But sometimes I run ...

One of my problems with resolving ethical questions is that I so often have a hard time deciding the difference between moral, ethical, reas...

Let's establish something right from the outset. Vaccines do NOT cause autism . Clear enough?  If you are in any doubt, here's a...

At the heart of skepticism is a philosophy that says, basically, "question everything."  I would add a few "especiallies:...

It's with a strange twinge of conscience that I'm writing today about an alt-med woo-woo claim that I don't think we should chal...