Skeptophilia

Today's topic comes to us from the One Thing Leads To Another department. I got launched into this particular rabbit hole by a notice f...

As you might imagine, I get hate mail pretty frequently. Most of it has to do with my targeting somebody's sacred cow, be it homeopathy,...

One of the shakiest concepts in biological anthropology is race . Pretty much all biologists agree that race , as usually defined, has very ...

Undoubtedly you are aware of the outrage from people on the anti-woke end of the spectrum about Disney's choice of Black actress Halle B...

Well, I once again broke the Cardinal Rule of the Internet, namely: don't argue online with strangers. This time, the source of the argu...

Despite having taught genetics for 32 years, it still is astonishing to me that all of the genetic diversity of the 7.7-odd-billion humans o...

In further evidence that we're all part of a computer simulation being run by aliens, but the aliens have gotten tired of even trying to...

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...

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...