skepticism

Why have some conspiracy theories been pushed back into the public? Because when you try to force them out of the mainstream, they’ll find a wider audience on the fringes.

If you believe there is intelligent extraterrestrial life out there, have you ever stopped to wonder why?

How to be media savvy? Sample ideas you disagree with, and be duly skeptical of celebrity journalists.

Where are the four “horsewomen” of new atheism? Well, here are two of them, secular scholars Rebecca Goldstein and Susan Jacoby. 

Your brain stops at the most comforting thought. The truth is somewhere beyond that. Using scientific skepticism as a guide, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss outlines the questions that critical thinkers ask themselves.

Can democracy remain vibrant if the public, and especially children, don’t have the tools to distinguish sense from nonsense?

Journalists were once outsiders looking in, says Gay Talese, but today their proximity to Washington makes them myopic; they’d be wiser to disperse and keep their eyes on the horizon.