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I was asked a curious question by a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , one that intrigued me enough I thought it was worth devoting an entire po...

In choosing topics for this blog, I try not to have it simply devolve into taking random pot shots at crazies.  Loony ideas are a dime a doz...

Last week there was a paper released in the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences  called, " Epistemic Rationality: Skeptic...

I know I've said it before, but it bears saying again: the strength of science lies in its reliance on hard evidence as the sine qua non...

Well, if you needed any good news, a study released last week in Frontiers in Psychology  found that both rational argument and  ridicule ca...

I spend a lot of time in this blog being negative.  On some level, it's inevitable, given my subject matter.  I've chosen to seek ou...