Skeptophilia

All my life, I've been pulled by two opposing forces. One of them is the chaos-brain I described in yesterday's post, which I seem t...

The universe is a dangerous place. Much of what we've created -- the whole superstructure of civilized life, really -- is built to give ...

The human-inhabited part of the world dodged a serious bullet in January of 2022, when the colossal Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha'apai volcanic...

A friend of mine was chatting with me about irritating situations at work, and she mentioned that she'd really lost her cool with a supe...

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction defines disaster  to mean: A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or ...

In the 1992 Winter Olympics , there was an eighteen-year-old French figure skater named Laëtitia Hubert . She was a wonderful skater, even b...

There were three magic words that used to be able to induce me to do almost anything, regardless how catastrophically stupid it was: "I...

Two months ago my younger son moved to Houston, Texas for a new job, and although he's 27, this of course elicited all the usual parenta...

Some days it's no great mystery why the general public is dubious about scientists. I mean, a lot of it is the media, as I've disc...

Let's get something straight from the outset. Vaccines don't cause autism.  They never have.  The "research" of Andrew W...