Skeptophilia

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

"Donald Trump is a stupid man's idea of a smart man, a poor man's idea of a rich man, and a weak man's idea of a strong man...

Let me just say for the record that if you're making a claim, your case is not  strengthened by lying about the evidence. The topic come...

Today's topic, which comes to me via a long-time loyal reader of Skeptophilia , has a funny side and a not-so-funny side. The link my fr...

Can I just say that I am sick unto death of people misrepresenting science? Some scientist somewhere makes a discovery, and it seems to take...

I have great respect for scientists, which I hope is obvious from the content of this blog.  Even so, there are times I read scientific rese...

I frequently post about new scientific discoveries, and having a fascination for neuroscience and psychology, a good many of them have to do...

For today's post, we will focus our attention on a Skeptophilia  frequent flyer -- Representative Lamar Smith, who is narrowly edged out...

First, we had Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper imposing a rule on scientists mandating that their research pass government approval (...