Skeptophilia

There's a general rule that once a lie gets out into wide circulation, trying to replace it with the truth is damn near impossible.  We...

I haven't exactly kept it a secret how completely, utterly fed up I am with media lately. This goes from the miasmic depths of YouTube, ...

Following hard on the heels of yesterday's post, about how the best way to defang would-be fascists is to laugh directly into their face...

On Monday I wrote in response to Joseph Epstein's commentary about Dr. Jill Biden's Ed.D., in which he called it "comical"...

I suppose it's kind of a forlorn hope that popular media starts doing a better job of reporting on stories about science research. My ...

I think we need to clarify what counts as a "gotcha question." It's a charge that gets levied against the media every time a...

A few months ago, I made the point that the fallacy called appeal to authority  is not as simple as it sounds . On the surface, it's a...

Why does popular media have such a love affair with woo-woo nonsense? Isn't science cool enough?  Can't the History Channel just...