Skeptophilia

There's a fundamental idea in ecology called the precautionary principle .  Put simply, the precautionary principle says that it's a...

Popular media make me crazy sometimes. It's intensely frustrating to see science misrepresented by news outlets, and people unquestion...

Arrogance (n.) -- having or showing the insulting attitude of people who believe they are better, smarter, or more important than other peop...

One of the topics we discuss in my Critical Thinking class is when taking a stand on an ethical issue trumps law. Civil disobedience, in o...

Some days, being an optimist is a losing proposition. In previous posts, I have outlined the evidence supporting the claim that hydrofrack...

I try not to let my skepticism slide over into cynicism.  The latter, a disbelieve-everything-they-say approach, seems to me to be as funda...

Yesterday there was yet another article about an accident at a hydrofracking site.  In this one, an Ohio fracking well sprung a leak , causi...