Skeptophilia

Is it too much to ask that the Trump administration simply tells the damn truth? That's all I ask.  Just stop lying .  I'm fine with...

When I was a kid, my parents had a set of books called The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Modern Medicine.   Now, this was circa  1972, so keep...

Some days it's no great mystery why the general public is dubious about scientists. I mean, a lot of it is the media, as I've disc...

A musician friend of mine, a flutist of tremendous talent, drive, and skill, was diagnosed with leukemia when she was seventeen years old, o...

I think I've made my position on GMOs plain enough, but let me just be up front about it right out of the starting gate. There is noth...

Yesterday I ran into an interesting example of the fact that a novel idea, explained by a non-scientist, can skew a person's reaction to...

The furor over vaccinations has a long history. The history, which is intensely frustrating to people like me who think that the anti-vaxx...

The state of Tennessee is in a bit of a quandary at the moment. Back in 2002, one Jacqueline Crank was sentenced to unsupervised probatio...

At what point does a publication become so filled with dangerous misinformation that the powers-that-be should step in and shut it down? I...

Pleo-FORT, Pleo-QUENT, Pleo-NOT, Pleo-STOLO, Pleo-NOTA-QUENT, and Pleo-EX are all names of homeopathic "remedies" that are being s...

New from the "This Is Seriously Not A Good Idea" department: the Indian Medical Association has just announced a decision to allo...