Skeptophilia

The only thing that is surprising about Representative-elect George Santos's tangled skein of lies is how unsurprising it is. The list o...

In Jean-Paul Sartre's short story "The Wall," three men are captured during the Spanish Civil War, and all three are sentenced...

There's a folk truism that goes, "Don't try to bullshit a bullshitter." The implication is that people who exaggerate and/...

If you needed something else to make you worry about our capacity to make decisions based on facts, go no further than a study that came out...

There's been a whole lot of buzz lately on the subject of free speech and social media. The maelstrom has centered around the controve...

If there's one thing that could be a microcosm of the current administration, it was a short exchange yesterday between Rudy Giuliani an...

A paper that appeared in the American Sociology Review  in January, by Oliver Hahl (of Carnegie Mellon Institute) and Minjae Kim and Ezra W....

Whenever I write a post that's critical of Donald Trump, I always cringe a little as my finger is poised above the "Publish" b...

I have a basic rule I try to follow, which is: insofar as it is possible, tell the truth. I'll be up front that I haven't always m...

My last post was about how reluctant I am to post about politics.  So, predictably, this post is about: politics. I've been watching...