Skeptophilia

The environmentalists tell us "extinction is forever," and that certainly seems unarguable.  Once a species is lost, evolution wil...

A post I did a couple of weeks ago , about my view that creativity is a relationship (and thus inherently subjective, in the sense that each...

Ready for a strange story, that has a curious connection to yesterday's post, about doorways and liminal spaces? Let's start with H....

There's something about doors that is magical. They're portals from one room to another or from the inside of a house to the outside...

A point I've made here at Skeptophilia  more than once is that I don't automatically  disbelieve  in anyone's claim of having a ...

When I taught Critical Thinking in high school, one of the principles I harped on was "check your sources." The difficulty is, I d...

In the course of writing Skeptophilia  for nearly fifteen years, I thought I'd run into every purveyor of woo out there. I was wrong. So...