Skeptophilia

It will come as no great surprise to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I have a bit of an obsession with considering what the world was ...

A year ago I wrote about linguistic isolates  -- single languages, or small clusters of related languages, that have no apparent relation to...

The attitudes and practices of colonialism did incalculable damage, and not least on the list is the fact that (by and large) the colonizers...

There's a difference between respecting a culture and believing every damn thing it comes up with. At its extreme, this tendency to ta...