Skeptophilia

Generally speaking, there are two things that rapidly identify a claim as the work of a crank: (1) saying that it explains everything; and (...

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

I get that scientific terminology can be daunting.  Scientists, and therefore scientific papers, have become so specialized that unless you ...

Generally speaking, there are two things that rapidly identify a claim as the work of a crank: (1) saying that it explains everything; and (...

One general tendency I see amongst woo-woos of all types is a sense that the world has to be a certain way because it "feels like it mu...