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If there's one piece of advice I have for anyone trying to stay informed, it is: check your sources. Unfortunately, these days, that t...

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 ...

In today's science news, we have a paper called "Rapid Genetic and Developmental Morphological Changes from Extreme Celerity ,...

A couple of days ago, a reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link along with an email, the gist of which was, "Ha ha, how are you gonna ar...

I'm going to make another plea for something that I've requested before: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE CHECK YOUR SOURCES. In these fra...

Coming hard on the heels of a story about how hexagonal cloud formations in the south Atlantic proves the existence of the Bermuda Triangle,...

One of the many things I harp on with my students is "check your sources." And "check your sources" doesn't mean...

Yesterday I ran into an interesting example of the fact that a novel idea, explained by a non-scientist, can skew a person's reaction to...