Skeptophilia

As a science teacher, I get kind of annoyed with the media sometimes. The misleading headlines are bad enough.  I remember seeing headline...

Making its way around the internet in the last few days we have the strange story of Lerina Garcia, a Spanish woman who is making an extraor...

When bad things happen, it seems to be a reflex that people look around for someone or something to blame.  And this week, Slender Man (more...

It will come as no great surprise to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I think the educational system is long overdue for a philosophica...

One of the most important, and least considered, questions about belief is, "What would it take to convince you that you were wrong?...

It struck me today how odd it is that in so many religions, it seems like it's not so much that the believers agree with god, it's t...

Something I fight continuously, as a teacher, is the idea that the most important thing is THE ANSWER. It's the fault of the way educa...