Mind
Five Fallacies of Grief: Debunking Psychological Stages
From the stages of grief to the stages of moral development, stage theories have little evidentiary support
Skeptic212 articles archived since 1845
The Sciences
How Randomness Rules Our World and Why We Cannot See It
Part two of a series of articles on the neuroscience of chance
Mind
Why Our Brains Do Not Intuitively Grasp Probabilities
Part one of a series of articles on the neuroscience of chance
Health
How Anecdotal Evidence Can Undermine Scientific Results
Why subjective anecdotes often trump objective data
The Sciences
Sacred Science: Using Faith to Explain Anomalies in Physics
Can emergence break the spell of reductionism and put spirituality back into nature?
Evolution
Ben Stein's Expelled Exposed
A film challenging evolution by game show host and financial analyst Ben Stein is a case study in antiscience propaganda
Mind
The Brain Is Not Modular: What fMRI Really Tells Us
Metaphors, modules and brain-scan pseudoscience
Mind
Wag the Dog
Emotions are as much a product of our evolutionary heritage as they are our environmental circumstances
Mind
Adam's Maxim and Spinoza's Conjecture
Belief, disbelief and uncertainty generate different neural pathways in the brain
The Sciences
The Mind of the Market
Evolutionary economics explains why irrational financial choices were once rational
Evolution
Evonomics
Evolution and economics are both examples of a larger mysterious phenomenon
The Sciences
An Unauthorized Autobiography of Science
Journal article explanations of how science works often differ from the actual process
The Sciences
Weirdonomics and Quirkology
How the curious science of the oddities of everyday life yields new insights
The Sciences
The Really Hard Science
To be of true service to humanity, science must be an exquisite blend of data, theory and narrative
The Sciences
Rational Atheism
An open letter to Messrs. Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens
Mind
The (Other) Secret
The inverse square law trumps the law of attraction
Tech
Bush's Mistake and Kennedy's Error
Self-deception proves itself to be more powerful than deception
The Sciences
Free to Choose
The neuroscience of choice exposes the power of ideas
Mind
(Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The new science of happiness needs some historical perspective
Health
Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Or why we should learn to stop worrying and love food
