Skeptophilia

A month ago I looked at a geological oddity called banded iron formations  -- alternating gray and red bands of iron-rich sediments that hav...

Can I just say that I am sick unto death of people misrepresenting science? Some scientist somewhere makes a discovery, and it seems to take...

One of the (many) things I love about science is the fact that for every discovery made, a slew of new questions open up. Sometimes, ...

Mark Twain once said, "The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to be believable." I ran across a particul...

Can I just say that I am sick unto death of people misrepresenting science? Some scientist somewhere makes a discovery, and it seems to ta...

At what point, when someone believes something that is counterfactual, unscientific, and (to put not too fine a point on it) ridiculous, doe...