Skeptophilia

Today's post is about several links that all appeared in my inbox more or less simultaneously, and are even more interesting in juxtapo...

If I can be allowed to geek out a little, today's post is about two new discoveries in the field of paleontology. The mid- Permian per...

As you may have noted, I have a serious problem with "alternative medicine" manufacturers who put on their bottles of snake oil, ...

In the unit on ethics in my Critical Thinking class, we always discuss a variety of experiments that have been done to elucidate the origins...

I have to resist the temptation of scoffing too quickly, but sometimes it turns out to be justified. This comes up because of an article f...

Apparently a new strategy amongst the severely religious is to send out broadside literature through the mail. I know this because a friend...

Back in November of 2015, I wrote a post that got a lot of pshaw-ing by people who ordinarily would be fairly close to me in political outl...