Skeptophilia

Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet agrobiologist during the Stalin years, whose interest in trying to improve crop yields led him into some seriou...

You probably saw that Marjorie Taylor  Traitor Greene has called for a "national divorce" along red state/blue state lines, split...

Here in the United States, we just went through another election.  There are still several races left unsettled, but the outcome seems to be...

It must be awfully convenient to start out from the baseline assumption that everyone who disagrees with you is wrong. This observation come...

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. You're over on Twitter, and you post a link making a political claim of some sort.  Shortly ther...

Having spent 32 years as a high school teacher, I developed a pretty sensitive bullshit detector. It was a necessary skill.  Kids who have n...

One of the ways in which the last few years have changed me is that it has made me go into an apoplectic rage when I see people sharing fals...

I'm going to ask a question, not because I'm trying to lead my readers toward a particular answer, but because I honestly don't ...

It's simultaneously amusing and a little frightening how sure we all are of our own opinions. When challenged, we tend to react either...

Let me say this as plainly as I can: The President of the United States is a dangerously unstable man. I do not say this lightly, and it...

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