Skeptophilia

Today I'd like to look at two articles that are especially interesting in juxtaposition. The first is about a study out of the Universit...

In Shirley Jackson's eerie gothic novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle,  the main character -- an eighteen-year-old named Merricat B...

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....