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Some people believe they can read your thoughts, communicate with the dead, or even move objects with their minds. A precious few are so certain of […]

While science thrives on asking questions and challenging dogmas, this is kryptonite to religion; and the more fundamentalist and oppressive the […]

This article was completed well before the events of January 6 at the U.S. Capitol. QAnon followers were among the leading participants in the […]

Science gives us hope, but the danger of science-denial has been made startlingly clear during the coronavirus era of this larger post-truth epoch. […]

What is truth? You can speak of moral truths and aesthetic truths, but I’m not concerned with those here, important as they may be. By truth I […]

After a series of stinging defeats in the U.S. courts, one branch of biblical creationism mutated into a neocreationist movement known as intelligent […]

I was at an ethics lecture when the professor stated that philosophy studies what science does not. This was when I became aware of the philosophical […]

Charles H. Jones does not like the idea that philosophy and science are separate magisteria, analogous to the sharp separation between religion and […]

Investigations into the accuracy of psychic detectives in locating missing persons are typically conducted by skeptics after the fact. One benefit to […]

When podcaster/journalist Stephanie Kemmerer proposed our cover article on QAnon, I knew little about the phenomenon except for occasional mentions. […]