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The attitude of many laypeople toward medical science can be summed up as "all you have to do is." Never mind those silly experts,...

One of the most curious features of evolutionary biology is the cui bono principle . Cui bono?  is Latin for "who benefits?" and i...

An announcement a few weeks ago by microbiologist Jean-Michel Claverie of Aix-Marseille University that he and his team had successfully re...

It's virus season, which thus far I've been able to avoid participating in, but every time I go to the grocery store I see people wh...

If you are of the opinion that more evidence is necessary for demonstrating the correctness of the evolutionary model, I give you: a paper b...

If you are of the opinion that more evidence is necessary for demonstrating the correctness of the evolutionary model, I give you: a paper b...

One of the things that even folks conversant in the evolutionary model sometimes don't know is the extent to which we are composite orga...

I'm fully in support of pure research, which should be obvious to anyone who is a regular reader of Skeptophilia .  But sometimes I run ...

Some days, optimism is just a losing proposition. Today's reason for repeated facepalms has to do with COVID-19, better known as Wuha...