Skeptophilia

It will come as no shock to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I really  hate it when people make shit up and then misrepresent it as the...

The latest epistle from the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage surrounds Algerian boxer Imane Khelif , who defeated Italy's Angela ...

I got into a curious exchange with someone on Twitter a couple of days ago about Richard Dawkins's recent statement that "biologic...

Well, I once again broke the Cardinal Rule of the Internet, namely: don't argue online with strangers. This time, the source of the argu...

One of the claims I hear that infuriates me the most is that LGBTQ+ identification is becoming more common because our society is increasing...

By now, most of you have probably heard that Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican representative from Georgia who narrowly edged out both ...

Let me say right up front that I don't mean any of what I'm saying here as criticism of the researchers themselves . But there are...

Yesterday I got a DM on Twitter that left me scratching my head a little. Here's the body of it, verbatim: I don't mean to be of...

So it's fall, and the season of pumpkin  everything .  Pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin candy, pumpkin pudding, and pumpkin-flavored...