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AI systems like ChatGPT have a lot of people worried, but I just bumped into a story about a group who wouldn't have occurred to me -- p...

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...

A couple of days ago, a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link with the message, "I thought I'd seen it all."...

Appeal to Authority  is simultaneously one of the simplest, and one of the trickiest, of the fallacies. The simple part is that one should...

I think one of the problems with scientists and non-scientists not understanding each other revolves around the meaning of the word "pr...

As I've mentioned before, teaching a class in Critical Thinking means that I have a perpetual source of weird stories to write about.  P...