Skeptophilia

Carl Sagan once said, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." I think that's one of the main things that att...

Something that really grinds my gears is how quick people can be to trumpet their own ignorance, seemingly with pride. I recall being in a s...

Trofim Lysenko was a Soviet agrobiologist during the Stalin years, whose interest in trying to improve crop yields led him into some seriou...

When you think about it, it's unsurprising that our ancestors invented "the gods" as an explanation for anything they didn...

I haven't exactly kept it a secret how completely, utterly fed up I am with media lately. This goes from the miasmic depths of YouTube, ...

In his 1967 short story "Thus We Frustrate Charlemagne," writer R. A. Lafferty took one of the first looks at something that since...

I've mentioned before how my difficulties with math short-circuited my goal of becoming a researcher in physics, but the truth is, there...

There's a problem with online science directed at laypeople. I was discussing this with a friend yesterday.  Although he and I both have...

If there's one phrase that torques the absolute hell out of me -- and just about every actual scientist out there -- it's, "Wel...