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One thing I will never understand, so long as I live, is why people can be induced in such great numbers to vote against their best interest...

A couple of days ago I wrote a piece on a couple of studies that some people (unwarrantedly, in my opinion) are using as support of the cla...

The movie Gattaca  envisions a near future in which our entire destiny is ruled by our genes.  Not only are we subject to genetic tests as a...

It's understandable how much we cling to the hope that there's life after death.  Ceasing to exist is certainly not a comforting pro...

The downward spiral in the United States's commitment to environmental stewardship isn't all big, attention-getting moves like Donal...

Yesterday a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link with the note, "Now I've heard everything." The link was to the hom...

In her marvelous TED Talk " On Being Wrong ," writer and journalist Kathryn Schulz describes a "series of unfortunate assumpt...