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When I taught Critical Thinking in high school, one of the principles I harped on was "check your sources." The difficulty is, I d...

There's a problem with online science directed at laypeople. I was discussing this with a friend yesterday.  Although he and I both have...

If there's one phrase that torques the absolute hell out of me -- and just about every actual scientist out there -- it's, "Wel...

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...

Okay, y'all, can we agree to stop calling them conspiracy theories ?  A theory is a scientific model backed up by experimentation and/or...

I get really frustrated with science news reporting sometimes. I mean, on the one hand, it's better that laypeople get exposed to scienc...

Here in the United States, we just went through another election.  There are still several races left unsettled, but the outcome seems to be...

One topic that has come up over and over again here at Skeptophilia  is the rather unsettling idea that the high opinion most of us have of ...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of threats ...