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A recommendation for bloggers and other commentators: if you are going to write about science, make sure you understand the damn science.  A...

Several times here at Skeptophilia  headquarters we've made fun of people predicting the end of the world, be it from a collision with t...

Why do we tolerate abject stupidity in our leaders? I'm asking this not, surprisingly, because of Donald Trump, but because of Represe...

Every once in a while I'll run across something that is such an elegant support for the theory of evolution that I can't help but wo...

One of the first things I ever wrote about in this blog was the phenomenon of  pareidolia  -- because the human brain is wired to recognize ...

It's a source of some amusement to me how certain we are of what comes in through our sense organs. "I saw it with my own eyes...

There's a logical fallacy called the Argument from Personal Incredulity .  The idea here is that you look at something from nature, and ...