Skeptophilia

I learned a new term yesterday: parasocial relationship. It means "a strong, one-sided social bond with a fictional character or celebr...

Last week I had a frustrating exchange with an acquaintance over the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine. He'd posted on social media a meme ...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of an incre...

Is it just me, or has the Religious Right completely lost the plot? And surprisingly, I am not referring to their continuing support of Dona...

Last September I took a job working half-time, providing companion care for a senior gentleman who lives in a full-care facility about twent...

I suppose it's a good sign when what I write grabs me by the emotions and swings me around, and it bodes well for the story having the s...

I'm about halfway through the first draft of my current work-in-progress, a novel called In the Midst of Lions  about a perfectly ordina...

I am fundamentally an optimistic person. I know that might be surprising, given that I frequently write here at Skeptophilia  about the abso...

When the pandemic started, and I first realized what the implications were, I thought the effect of it on me personally was going to be less...