Skeptophilia

In what can only be described as a confluence of terrible news, catastrophically strong Hurricane Florence is now taking direct aim at North...

There's been so much bad news lately that I've several times felt like I needed to avoid all forms of media not to go into a full-bl...

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy  is the practice of picking out the data points, after the fact, that support whatever your claim is.  The na...

I have a particular aversion to seeing people humiliate themselves.  I remember as a kid watching sitcoms on television, and when I knew a c...

Prior to the 20th century, lung cancer and emphysema were rare diseases.  When someone contracted either of these diseases, doctors took not...

Some days, being an optimist is a losing proposition. In previous posts, I have outlined the evidence supporting the claim that hydrofrack...

Assessing risk is a complicated thing.  The technical definition of risk -- that it is equal to the statistical probability of exposure mult...