Skeptophilia

I suppose that I'm an optimist at heart. I always live in hope that people will see reason.  Regardless of what illogical and counterf...

I have, at times, been accused of selecting only the most grotesquely absurd examples of woo-woo belief to examine in this blog.  Thus, say ...

Well, I'm happy to say that The Weekly World News has been supplanted as the world's first and foremost disseminator of bullshit.  ...

Today we have two stories that are mostly interesting in juxtaposition. First, we have an article by Jo Marchant over at Medium entitled,...

There are times when I want to tell people, "Stop.  You are making it way too easy for me." I would almost like it better if th...

It seems like lately, self-inquiry tests are all the rage. They range from the banal ("What Harry Potter character are you?"  ...

There is a tendency amongst some folks that I just don't understand; and that is that if there is no ready explanation for things at han...