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Last week I had a frustrating exchange with an acquaintance over the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine. He'd posted on social media a meme ...

I suppose it's a good sign when what I write grabs me by the emotions and swings me around, and it bodes well for the story having the s...

Yesterday, we looked at the fact that scientists have actually  not  admitted that vaccines cause autism.  Today, we consider the fact that ...

It's simultaneously amusing and a little frightening how sure we all are of our own opinions. When challenged, we tend to react either...

It's a theme that has cropped up over and over here at Skeptophilia ; the fact that people spend a lot more time reacting from emotion t...

There's a logical fallacy I've seen a lot lately.  It's called  argumentum ad Monsantum  (also known as argumentum ad Hitlerum )...

The furor over vaccinations has a long history. The history, which is intensely frustrating to people like me who think that the anti-vaxx...

I try not to let my skepticism slide over into cynicism.  The latter, a disbelieve-everything-they-say approach, seems to me to be as funda...

In order to avoid falling for whatever absurd nonsense happen to be in the offing, you not only need to have some good critical thinking ski...