Skeptophilia

Donald Rumsfeld famously said, "There are known knowns.  These are things we know that we know.  There are known unknowns.  That is to ...

Sometimes I run into a piece of scientific research that's so odd and charming that I just have to tell you about it. Take, for example,...

I get that scientific terminology can be daunting.  Scientists, and therefore scientific papers, have become so specialized that unless you ...

There's always a danger, when you want to believe something really really really  badly, that you'll jump to belief on the basis of ...

Sometimes I run into a piece of scientific research that's so odd and charming that I just have to tell you about it. Take, for exampl...