Skeptophilia

One of the most difficult problems in linguistics is deciphering a text when (1) you don't know what language it's in, and (2) you d...

One of the reasons I trust science is that I have so little trust in my own brain's ability to assess correctly the nature of reality. ...

In the latest from the Wishful Thinking department, we have a woman in Murrysville, Pennsylvania who claims she is the Virgin Mary's fir...

Lately, it's been mighty hard to stay upbeat.  Insularity, fear, intolerance, and suspicion have ruled the day, along with their inevita...

Two months ago, an eleven-year-old girl in Argentina was forced to give birth to a baby conceived because she was raped by her grandmother...

One of the biggest unsolved mysteries of science is how the brain encodes what we know, think about, and experience. For many types of inf...

New from the "Not Poe's Law" Department, we have: some evangelical Christians who are concerned that demons are now "lega...