Skeptophilia

Yesterday a friend sent me an article from Sentinel News  by Charles Magrin entitled, " A Real Phenomenon, A Cultural Taboo ," tha...

I was chatting with my younger son a couple of days ago.  He's a professional scientific glassblower, so anything having to do with the ...

I may have many faults, but one thing I try my damnedest not to do is to spout off on topics about which I am clearly ignorant. That determi...

There's a fallacy out there that is a little on the tricky side, even more so because it appears so straightforward at first.  It's ...

Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist Albert von Szent-Györgyi  once made the pithy observation that "Discovery consists of seeing w...

Richard Feynman famously said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool."...

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

There's a reason skeptics have a problem with anecdotal evidence and eyewitness testimony. It's not that that it's impossible th...