Skeptophilia

Despite the fact that our modern lifestyle has increased our life expectancy to longer than it's ever been in the history of humanity, r...

Why in the hell are people still listening to Gwyneth Paltrow on health-related matters? It's a rhetorical question, really.  People s...

Three hundred years ago, a lot of the medicines that were used to treat human conditions were identified using the "Doctrine of Signatu...

It's been a busy week,  here at Worldwide Wacko Watch.  I and my investigative team (made up of my two highly-trained dogs, Doolin and G...

One of the first things we do in my Critical Thinking classes is to learn some of the basic logical fallacies, and afterwards, students are ...

A friend of mine recently sent me a link about beauty treatments.  She wasn't, I think, trying to give me any sort of unsubtle suggestio...