Thoughts on Science and Pseudoscience

Zeno was a Greek philosopher who has famously vexed great minds for thousands of years with his puzzling paradoxes that seem to defy exp...

Something amazing happened this month, something monumental. For the first time ever, a human brain has been scanned and computationally...

A neurological case study was recently reported on visual hallucinations in photographs. I found this particularly fascinating. Two ...

I've been seeing a lot of pseudoscientific rants lately that sound a lot like this: "Well, your fancy so-called scientific the...

This post tackles a few common misunderstandings and incorrect memes about brains, intelligence, and psychology that are floating around ...

A scientific study on Bigfoot footprints and other such data was published in the late 1990's: Fahrenbach, W. H. (1997/1998). ...

A recent article published in the science and technology section of Time.com makes some truly spectacular errors and misunderstandings ...

There are billions or even trillions of stars in every galaxy, and there are billions of galaxies in the universe. Around many of these s...

Recently, I've been noticing the Fine-Tuned Universe argument popping up in various popular media outlets, and being used as ...

Skeptics primarily use logic, reason, and critical thinking in order to make sense of the world. Skepticism is a very important quality...

Conspiracy theorists, pseudoscience proponents, and various peddlers of nonsense can often be spotted by how they argue. An insightful me...

I've been collecting my favorite science-related quotes for quite some time, and have decided to share, mainly because I want to see wh...

In a previous analysis of Bigfoot population estimates by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), I used human pedestrian ...

People think that because there are thousands of eye witness reports of Bigfoot sightings (or UFO's, or angels, or Loch Ness monsters,...

I've noticed that most of the pseudoscience floating around today gets perpetuated by people claiming that they are being open-minde...

The Bigfoot Field Researchers' Organization (BFRO) claims that the population of Bigfoot (sasquatches) in North America is approxima...

  In a previous post , I used human pedestrian car accident data and animal roadkill data to show that Bigfoot could not possibly exi...

Most people, including scientists, think that pseudo-scientific claims are essentially unfalsifiable, since a skeptic can't typically...