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Every time I think homeopathy can't get more ridiculous, I turn out to be wrong. I thought they'd plunged to the bottom of the Cra...

When Flat-Earthers ("Flerfs") talk to Oblate-Spheroid-Earthers ("Sane People"), usually the topic comes up of "what...

I've written before on the topic of the Dunning-Kruger effect , the idea that we all tend to overestimate our own knowledge of a topic (...

In further adventures of friends and loyal readers of Skeptophilia  trying to induce me to do a skull-fracture-inducing faceplant, today we ...

It's tempting to think that conditions on Earth have always been like they are now. On one level, we know they weren't.  When peop...

Whenever I write a post that's critical of Donald Trump, I always cringe a little as my finger is poised above the "Publish" b...

One of the consistent criticisms I hear of the evolutionary model, as embodied in the principle of natural selection, is that it claims that...