Skeptophilia

Here in the United States we're celebrating Thanksgiving today.  It's a day a lot of folks think about their heritage, and the weird...

Springboarding off yesterday's post, about our unfortunate tendency to believe false claims if we hear them repeated often enough, today...

I had a bit of an epiphany this morning. It was when I was reading an article in the news about the fact that Joe Biden has lost support ...

Given the right context, people tend to be cooperative. That's the gist of a study out of the University of Texas - Austin this week, ...

There's a difference between respecting a culture and believing every damn thing it comes up with. At its extreme, this tendency to ta...