Skeptophilia

The classic account of the origins of Native Americans is that during the last Ice Age, the seas were lower, and what is now the floor of th...

After the last three days' depressing posts, I thought it was once again time to retreat to my happy place, which is: cool new scientifi...

It is a frequent source of perplexity for me when people read about scientific research, and because of their own biases (1) claim that it s...

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman once said, "I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that canno...

A couple of days ago, a reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link along with an email, the gist of which was, "Ha ha, how are you gonna ar...

Racists have cast about for years for some sort of scientific basis for their horrible worldview.  Evidence that their race is the superior ...

We were talking in my AP Biology class yesterday about the potential for skin damage from exposure to ultraviolet light.  Later in the day, ...

Today we have two stories that are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, we have an article by Jo Marchant over at Medium entitled,...