Skeptic212 articles archived since 1845

We’ve Known for 400 Years That Torture Doesn’t Work

Why torture doesn't work

What Would It Take to Prove the Resurrection?

How to think about claims, even the Resurrection

Artificial Intelligence Is Not a Threat—Yet

Artificial intelligence as existential threat

Why Humans Prefer to Be the Center of the Universe

Science contemplates the incomprehensible

How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail

Why worldview threats undermine evidence

Beware Bogus Theories of Sexual Orientation

A new battle over sexual orientation

Why Political Pessimism Trumps Optimism

The psychology of political pessimism

Radical Life-Extension Is Not around the Corner

Can science and Silicon Valley defeat death?

Is It Possible to Measure Supernatural or Paranormal Phenomena?

Where the known meets the unknown we are tempted to inject paranormal and supernatural forces to explain unsolved mysteries. We must resist the temptation because such efforts can never succeed...

If "Facilitated Communication" Is a Canard, Why Teach It?

Facilitated communication, autism and patients' rights

Charlie Sheen and the Danger of False Cures

Charlie Sheen's misadventure with a false cure for HIV/AIDS

Why Do Death-Row Inmates Speak of Love?

What would be your final words?

Why Malthus Is Still Wrong

Why Malthus makes for bad science policy

The True Meaning of BS

Would you know it if you saw it?

Is Social Science Politically Biased?

Political bias troubles the academy

Can Our Minds Live Forever?

Can a brain's connectome be preserved forever?

Did This Extinct Human Species Commit Homicide?

Did Homo naledi behave more like H. homicidensis?

Why Climate Skeptics Are Wrong

Did Humans Evolve to See Things as They Really Are?

Do we perceive reality as it is?

The Difference between Science and Pseudoscience

Discerning science from pseudoscience