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A point I've made here more than once is that my doubting many claims of the paranormal isn't because I think it's necessarily i...

I was making dinner last week, and the recipe called for soy sauce.  I knew we had a bottle of it -- and I was pretty sure it was somewhere ...

I've long been fascinated by the phenomenon of priming , where our interpretation of a sensory stimulus is altered by what we expected t...

In Shirley Jackson's eerie gothic novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle,  the main character -- an eighteen-year-old named Merricat B...

Lately, the political scene in the United States has been dominated by not just the single-cause fallacy (the tendency to attribute complex ...

In general, I always cringe a little when I see that a scientific study has been called into question. These days, especially in the United ...

A paper published this week in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports  provided some interesting insights into how our memories of our own p...

A paper this week out of the University of Washington describes research suggesting that intelligence is positively correlated with the abi...

A point I've made here at Skeptophilia  more than once is that I don't automatically  disbelieve  in anyone's claim of having a ...