Skeptophilia

It's been a while since we've had any interesting reports of UFO or alien sightings, so I was tickled to find a post yesterday on Pa...

I like a fair fight.  It's actually fun for me to have a good, riproaring intellectual discussion, in which both my opponent and I know ...

Yesterday, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend had ...

Having taken on, in recent posts, topics such as how buying into conspiracies makes you doubt facts, the role of paranoia in American politi...

In the last week my Environmental Science class has been discussing the production, use, and safety of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs)...

Sarah Palin, who is determined for some reason Not To Go Gentle Into That Good Night, is once again winning accolades from the Religious Rig...

I suppose it had to happen.  Eventually, if you buy into conspiracy theories -- where you consider the people in charge, and the media outle...