Skeptophilia

Three hundred years ago, a lot of the medicines that were used to treat human conditions were identified using the "Doctrine of Signatu...

Well, the targeted ad software has done it again. It's my own fault, really.  I shoulda known that having two posts in a row about ali...

Given my habit of poking fun at the aliens-and-UFOs crowd, it may come as a surprise to you that I think it's very likely that there...

One type of scientific error I find my students frequently make is "overconclusion."  This is when you take data that supports a s...

One of the most frustrating types of woo-woo belief is the kind that is, by definition, out of the reach of any sort of experimental testin...

Here at Worldwide Wacko Watch we're keeping a close eye on a story out of Romania.  It's got all of the necessary elements -- some r...

So, in our last installment of Learning About Chemistry From People Whose Last Science Class Was In The Seventh Grade, we found out that bre...