Skeptophilia

I present to you three recent articles with a linked theme. The first is about a study at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Re...

The news has been pretty uniformly dismal lately. I don't even have to list all the ways.  We've all been inundated by the headlin...

In yesterday's post, we looked at viral remnants in our own DNA and their possible role in long-term memory formation.  Today, we'll...

The last thing we need right now is for people to have another reason to lose their trust in scientists. It's a crucial moment.  On th...

I know I've said it before, but I hate the way media represents science (and hooks readers with inaccurate, misleading clickbait titles)...

Okay, after some recent posts that fall into the "I don't want to live on this planet any more" category, time to go to my hap...

You hear a lot about how we're a youth-obsessed culture, but really, humans have always been.  The ancient Greeks had a real mania for y...