Skeptophilia

The attitude of many laypeople toward medical science can be summed up as "all you have to do is." Never mind those silly experts,...

Well, I just ran into the single stupidest conspiracy theory in existence. Don't even try to convince me there's a dumber one, becau...

Ever heard of cocoliztli ? In one way, it's shocking if you haven't, and in another, hardly surprising at all, because the vast majo...

My novella We All Fall Down  is set during some of the most awful years humanity has ever lived through -- the middle of the fourteenth cent...

Let me be up front that I'm fully in favor of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. That said, I have to ask: what the fuck are ...

I have to admit that COVID-19 has me a little skittish. I know all the reassuring bits -- that most people who contract it have few or no ...

Humans are odd creatures sometimes. We have a regrettable tendency to abandon reason entirely when we're confronted with scary circums...

Today in the "I've Seen This Movie, And It Didn't End Well" department, we have: scientists digging into glacial ice and f...

Some days it's no great mystery why the general public is dubious about scientists. I mean, a lot of it is the media, as I've disc...

At the heart of skepticism is a philosophy that says, basically, "question everything."  I would add a few "especiallies:...