Skeptophilia

Thomas Paine said, "He who would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty h...

New from the "Well, I can't see any way that could go wrong, do you?" department, we have: scientists growing Neanderthal brai...

There are very few tropes that have had quite the cachet (and staying power) that pirates do. Consider the popularity of the Pirates of the ...

It will come as no shock to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I really  hate it when people make shit up and then misrepresent it as the...

There's a stereotype that science nerds, and especially science fiction nerds, are hopeless in the romance department. I'd sort of a...

If there's one place and historical period I could choose to know more about, it would be England during, and immediately following, the...

Finding unequivocal evidence of extraterrestrial life is not as easy as science fiction makes it sound. The problem is, we're biased tow...