The following is a guest post from Matt Madison, whom readers might know as the articulate and thoughtful writer…
Evolutionary medicine is an emerging field, and one of my principle research interests. Evolutionary medicine helps explain many ailments and…
Many are familiar with the genetic fallacy, a type of fallacy of irrelevance in which original or past context is…
I am grateful to Emery Emery and Heather Henderson for having me on their very funny and delightful skeptic podcast/live…
Professional “psychics” like Sylvia Browne like to make predictions about the new year. You can read Browne’s 2012 failures here. These…
Happy Festivus, everyone! With 2012 coming to a close without the world having ended (a Festivus miracle!), it seems like a…
I’m mostly indifferent to Christmas. I neither celebrate, nor generally care that others, including atheists, do. I don’t care if…
What’s the one thing a scientist absolutely has to have? Mr. Buhl, my high school biology teacher once asked the…
I’ve often heard the lamentation from educated secular people that if only we taught critical thinking earlier, say in high…
This is a reply to my friend James Croft’s post and his follow-up post here about the reaction to my criticism of Rebecca Watson’s…