Skeptophilia

Did you hear about Ohio House Bill 164 ? It's been called the "Student Religious Liberties Act."  It contains four provision...

Ever heard of André Thevet ? Born around 1516 in Angoulême, France, he was educated in the convent school of that city, although his teach...

Adding to the long list of scientific words that woo-woos misdefine and then misapply, let's consider "dimension." It's ...

One of the things I love most about science is its capacity to astonish us. You can be really knowledgeable in a field, and then the natur...

One of the strangest and most ubiquitous sensations is déjà vu , that bizarre sense that you're experiencing something that's happe...

I've always been fascinated by why people like particular pieces of music and not others. It's extremely personal, and also rather...

If you needed something else to make you worry about our capacity to make decisions based on facts, go no further than a study that came out...