Skeptophilia

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 ...

In its seven-year run, Star Trek: The Next Generation  had some awe-inspiring and brilliantly creative moments.  "The Inner Light,...

One of the very first topics I addressed here at Skeptophilia  -- only a few months after I started, in fall of 2010 -- was the idea of the...

There's a stereotype that science nerds, and especially science fiction nerds, are hopeless in the romance department. I'd sort of a...

Today, from the "Who Could Have Predicted This Besides Everybody?" department, we have: a study by psychologist David Blanchflower...