Skeptophilia

There's an old quip that there are lies, damned lies, and then there's statistics. I'm not saying it doesn't have its uses, ...

The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like ...

A couple of nights ago, my wife and I watched the latest episode in the current series of Doctor Who , "Dot and Bubble."  [ Nota b...

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

I always give a grim chuckle whenever someone on the far right calls us liberals "snowflakes," because when it comes to taking off...

In Dorothy Sayers' novel Gaudy Night , set (and written) in 1930s England, a group of Oxford University dons are the targets of threats ...

For today's Fiction Friday, I'm asking a question not because I'm trying to lead you in any particular direction, but because I ...

This past weekend, I got into two apparently unrelated conversations with online acquaintances that at their basis amount to the same thing....

Here in the United States we're celebrating Thanksgiving today, hopefully by staying home and not turning this into a nationwide supersp...