Skeptophilia

I'm going to start out with a quote from the brilliant Randall Munroe, whose comic strip xkcd  is rightly beloved by science nerds and t...

The argument from ignorance  is a curious phenomenon. The gist is that people take their lack of understanding of some phenomenon, and fro...

A recommendation for bloggers and other commentators: if you are going to write about science, make sure you understand the damn science.  A...

If there's one feature of media that drives me the craziest, it's the practice of appending the words "scientists claim" ...