Skeptophilia

I've always been fascinated with patterns.  Starting with a love for geometric patterns when I was a kid, I remember finding out about t...

Well, Hugo Chávez is dead and buried.  This fact thrills the hell out of some people, who hated his bombastic style and anti-American rhetor...

It's time people stop getting a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free card for acting like assholes as long as they say, "I'm doing this because...

Let me just say, right up front, that I love my students. They never fail to give me some optimism for humanity's future.  It's tr...

It's been a busy week,  here at Worldwide Wacko Watch.  I and my investigative team (made up of my two highly-trained dogs, Doolin and G...

The optimistic amongst us talk about a reconciliation between religion and science.  "You can believe in a higher power, and still acce...

A couple of days ago, I got an email from a reader that was long enough that I won't include the whole thing here, but the gist of it w...