Skeptophilia

Are you feeling like your love life is a little cooler than you'd like?  Are you lacking in the ardor department?  Does it seem like you...

As harsh as I sometimes am about woo-woo beliefs, I understand how fear and lack of knowledge can induce you to accept counterfactual nonsen...

Every time I find what I think must be the stupidest possible alt-med quack "cure," the alt-med crowd says, "Hold my beer....

I tend to have a caveat emptor  attitude toward a lot of things. If you're considering something new -- whether to trust a claim about...

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I can understand how fear and lack of knowledge can drive you to accept counterfactual nonsense.  I ...

New from the "What The Hell Are They Thinking?" department, today I found out that the Chinese are marketing a new "alternati...

There is one alternative medicine modality that I've always been hesitant to criticize.  That hesitancy has come from the fact that it i...

One of the nice things about science, and skepticism in general, is that it self-corrects.  Properly applied, skepticism leads you along bas...