Skeptophilia

Yesterday's post, about the strange resurgence of a fifty-year-old claim that the Dogon tribe of west Africa found out about Sirius'...

One of the fundamental principles of woo-woo-ism is never to let a popular idea die. You can refute them, you can debunk them, you can show ...

One of the problems with targeted-advertisement algorithms is that they're awfully good at picking up on words like "homeopathy...

I've never believed in luck.  It's true, however, that life is full of caprices.  Although the laws of physics are rigorously enforc...

One of the things I love about science is how it provides answers to questions that are so ordinary that few of us appreciate how strange th...

Last year I did a post about the remarkable Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus , whose passion for history (coupled with an u...

A criticism sometimes aimed at us science types is that our obsession with naming, classifying, and explaining everything in the universe ro...