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In response to my post a couple of days ago about the tendency of people to believe loony ideas if they're couched in ten-dollar vocabul...

The battle over the LSEA just took another weird turn. The LSEA is the Louisiana Science Education Act, a 2008 law that introduces "t...

If there's one word related to health issues that makes me cringe, it's the word "toxin." This term gets thrown around a...

Confirming something that people like Deepak Chopra and Dr. Oz figured out years ago, researchers at Villanova University and the University...

The Shroud of Turin is still an object of reverence for the devout.  Purportedly the burial cloth of Jesus, it shows the front and back of a...

I walk a pretty fine line, here at Skeptophilia , between criticizing ideas and ridiculing the people who hold them.  And I'm sure that...

Some days, being an optimist is a losing proposition. In previous posts, I have outlined the evidence supporting the claim that hydrofrack...