Skeptophilia

One of the reasons I get so impatient with woo-woos is that science is plenty cool enough without making shit up. But because quantum physic...

One of the downsides of being a layperson rather than a scientist (and I very much consider myself to be the former, despite having been a s...

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three scientists who have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that our common-sense perception ...

One of the reasons I get so impatient with woo-woos is that science is plenty cool enough without making shit up. Today we'll take a loo...

I try not to write in Skeptophilia  about topics I don't fully understand -- well, at least understand as fully as my brainpower and the...

I'm of two minds when laypeople write about science. On the one hand, I applaud anyone who is willing to delve into the often deep wat...

One of the reasons I get so impatient with woo-woos is that science is plenty cool enough without making shit up. There were two examples ...

People send me the oddest links. In just the last few days, I've received links to the following: A website that keeps track of spu...

There are, as far as I can see, two reasons why people believe the counterfactual, unsubstantiated nonsense that I deride daily as "woo...