Skeptophilia

I learned a new term yesterday: parasocial relationship . It means "a strong, one-sided social bond with a fictional character or celeb...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about our unfortunate tendency to believe false claims if we hear them repeated often enough, today...

I really am extraordinarily lucky. Following the breakup of my (all things considered) disaster of a first marriage, I had pretty much figur...

I learned a new term yesterday: parasocial relationship. It means "a strong, one-sided social bond with a fictional character or celebr...

For ten years, I was part of a Celtic dance band called Crooked Sixpence.  The name, if you're curious, comes from an English children...

There's a folk truism that goes, "Don't try to bullshit a bullshitter." The implication is that people who exaggerate and/...

There were three magic words that used to be able to induce me to do almost anything, regardless how catastrophically stupid it was: "I...

That we live in contentious times is so blatantly obvious it's kind of silly even to point it out. Politics.  Immigration.  LGBTQ righ...

One of the hardest things for skeptics to fight is the tendency by some people to swallow any damnfool thing they happen to see online. I ...

I know two people who are major conspiracy theorists. One of them believes he's being persecuted by the folks at his place of employme...