Skeptophilia

A friend of mine, a veterinarian in Scotland, has proven to be a wonderful source of topics for Skeptophilia , mostly on health-related issu...

Apparently, Australia being nonexistent and people selling homeopathic black holes weren't enough, so a friend and loyal reader of Skept...

Apparently the most popular fad in alt-med nutrition these days is the so-called "alkaline diet." The idea here is that lots of ...

Vested interests are a huge problem in science. Scientists, like all humans, have biases.  Our perceptual and cognitive apparatus isn'...

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...

In order to avoid falling for whatever absurd nonsense happen to be in the offing, you not only need to have some good critical thinking ski...

I'm sure that by now all of you have heard of the " Paleo Diet ," that claims that the path to better health comes from eating...