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...

In my novel Sephirot , the main character, an ordinary guy named Duncan Kyle, finds himself lost in an interlocking maze of worlds, each of ...

My grandma used to say, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them -- the first  time." It's good advice, and when I h...

There's been a whole lot of buzz lately on the subject of free speech and social media. The maelstrom has centered around the controve...

Because we apparently need one more cognitive bias to challenge our confidence in what we hear on the news on a daily basis, today I'm g...

If there's one thing that could be a microcosm of the current administration, it was a short exchange yesterday between Rudy Giuliani an...

A paper that appeared in the American Sociology Review  in January, by Oliver Hahl (of Carnegie Mellon Institute) and Minjae Kim and Ezra W....

Whenever I write a post that's critical of Donald Trump, I always cringe a little as my finger is poised above the "Publish" b...

I have a basic rule I try to follow, which is: insofar as it is possible, tell the truth. I'll be up front that I haven't always m...