Skeptophilia

Here at Worldwide Wacko Watch, we're keeping our eyes on two stories that will be of interest to cryptozoology buffs. First, from Chic...

My friend and fellow blogger Andrew Butters (of the wonderful blog Potato Chip Math , which you should all check out) recently sent me a cou...

I'd really like to understand better what drives people to embrace divination. Well, not why, precisely.  To some extent, I get why. ...

Today I'm going to ask two questions that are probably going to rub some people the wrong way: 1)  Does there come a time when a polit...

In some ways, it's no wonder that people these days distrust everything coming out of the media. Look, for example, at the whole thing...

There's something about water that is mysterious.  It comprises, by some estimates, an average of 65% of the mass of living tissue.  We...

There's a sense of being anonymous, or at least one step removed, on electronic media.  We post statuses, comments, and "tweets,...