Skeptophilia

I'm lucky, being an outspoken atheist, that I live where I do.  The people in my area of upstate New York are generally pretty accepting...

It is a sad fact of human nature that it is far easier to delude people than to un-delude them. Once someone has accepted some counterfact...

This past weekend my wife and I put up our Christmas tree.  It's always a special moment for me -- we have ornaments collected from year...

So another election has come and gone, and most of us on both sides of the aisle are more or less recovering from the shock of the results. ...

Just because I keep hoisting the banner of rationalism here at Skeptophilia  doesn't mean I don't get pretty freakin' discourage...

October must be International Confirmation Bias Month, or something. First we had the conspiracy theorists saying that a probably-Photosho...