Skeptophilia

Monday's post, about the difficulty of defining the term race , prompted a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  to ask if I'd ever heard of...

Here in the United States there is escalating concern among many of us that health insurance rates are going to skyrocket, since Donald Trum...

The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like ...

I was telling a friend about my current novel work-in-progress, Nightingale , a couple of days ago, and he asked me an interesting question:...

There's a general rule that once a baseless claim is made, getting people to dis believe in it is nearly impossible. This is a pattern t...

One of the most common misconceptions about evolution is that it is goal-oriented. You hear it all the time.  Giraffes evolved longer necks ...

I hope y'all will indulge me one more astronomical post, because just this week in the journal Science Advances there was a very cool p...