Skeptophilia

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy. It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal story...

When I was in Ecuador in 2019, I was blown away by its natural beauty.  The cloud forests of the mid-altitude Andes are, far and away, the m...

The word species  has got to be the mushiest term in all of science. It's one of those situations where you think you know what somethin...

In order to produce new species -- so goes the evolutionary model -- you need two things: isolation (splitting off the population that will ...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy . It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal st...

Most people are, by nature, categorizers.  We like to put labels on things, sort the world into neat little boxes.  For many of us, this dri...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy.  It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal stor...