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I've dealt with a lot of weird ideas over the thirteen years I've been blogging here at Skeptophilia . Some of them are so far out t...

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

Because evidently my generally abysmal opinion of the intelligence of the human species isn't low enough, yesterday a loyal reader sent ...

One of the ways in which the last few years have changed me is that it has made me go into an apoplectic rage when I see people sharing fals...

There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are ...

One of my besetting sins is being easily frustrated and taking things way too seriously. Which is why recent developments in government ha...

I suppose you could say that everything I write here at Skeptophilia  has the same overarching theme; how to tell truth from falsehood, how ...