Skeptophilia

One of the many things that baffles me about my fellow humans is how hard it is for people to say, "Well, I guess I was wrong, then....

I get a lot of negative comments. It comes with the territory, I suppose, and I knew when I started writing this blog fourteen years ago tha...

It's astonishing how little a skeptical, rational approach has insulated me from having a purely visceral reaction sometimes. I've...

It will hardly merit mention to regular readers of this blog that, given an odd circumstance, I will look first for a rational, scientific e...

Skeptics and rationalists hear the accusation rather frequently that their assumption that everything has a rational explanation is as much ...

One of the most frustrating phenomena for us skeptics is the backfire effect . The backfire effect is the documented tendency that people,...

Sometimes I wonder if what drew me into rationalism was the fact that there is a whole side of my personality that is fanatically devoted to...

This week we are seeing the final installment of the wonderful Washington Post  weekly column "What Was Fake On the Internet This Week?...

Yesterday, I received a mailing from The Omega Institute, of Rhinebeck, New York, suggesting that I might be interested in taking some of th...

I get a lot of negative comments. It comes with the territory, I suppose, and I knew when I started writing this blog four years ago that ...

I don't, for the most part, frequent religious blogs and websites.  As I've mentioned before, the majority of religious writers are ...

Sometimes I run into the objection that my acceptance of rationalism is as much of a faith-based statement as anyone's declaration of be...

Often, when I respond to a piece of art work, it's because of the stories that it evokes in my brain. When I was in college, and took ...