Skeptophilia

[Spoiler alert!  This post contains spoilers for the most recent Doctor Who  episode, "Lucky Day."  If you're planning on watc...

I get a lot of negative comments. It comes with the territory, I suppose, and I knew when I started writing this blog fourteen years ago tha...

One of the most frustrating thing about conspiracy theorists is how resistant they are to changing their minds, even when presented with inc...

Last week there was a paper released in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences  called, " Epistemic Rationality: Skeptic...

I know I've said it before, but it bears saying again: the strength of science lies in its reliance on hard evidence as the sine qua non...

A couple of days ago I made the mistake of participating in that most fruitless of endeavors: an online argument with a total stranger. ...

I frequently visit the r/atheism subreddit  as a way of keeping abreast of current happenings in the world of the irreligious.  Although I f...

I get a lot of negative comments. It comes with the territory, I suppose, and I knew when I started writing this blog four years ago that ...

This post is, honestly, a question rather than an answer. I know I come across as critical of religion at times, and in my own defense I h...

One area in which a lot of people could use some work is in how to draw logical connections. It's not that it's necessarily that s...

It is a source of immense frustration to me that people seem to be quite good at accusing those they disagree with of being irrational, whil...