Skeptophilia

I've blogged before about "miraculous thinking" -- the idea that an unlikely occurrence somehow has to be a miracle simply bas...

A few days ago, I had a perfectly dreadful day. The events varied from the truly tragic (receiving news that a former student had died) to t...

In today's contribution from the Department of Specious Statistics, the owner of a biblical timeline business and self-proclaimed mathem...

We all have intuition and common sense about how the world works, and it is fascinating how often that intuition is wrong. Not that I like h...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link to an interview with author Sharon Hewitt Rawlette about her recent book, The Sou...

I've blogged before about "miraculous thinking" -- the idea that an unlikely occurrence somehow has to be a miracle simply bas...

Following hard on the heels of yesterday's guardedly optimistic post about the potential malleability of people's views on such frau...

What do you hear about more on the news, homicides in the United States, or suicides in the United States? Unless you're watching dras...

The last thing we need right now is for people to have another reason to lose their trust in scientists. It's a crucial moment.  On th...