It's always good (and frustratingly rare) to see the mainstream media get it right when it comes to pseudoscience in medicine. Too often the narrative is - scientists are baffled at this alternative ...

In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft's "Sydney" chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor, ...

The City of Philadelphia will reexamine the case of Ellen Greenberg, and her father believes investigators should be looking ...

I think it is both possible and necessary for people to disagree with each other constructively on important matters. All ...

We forget that during America’s Golden Age, the government essentially funded itself entirely with tariffs; the income tax didn’t even exist.

Zero-sum thinking is all over our modern discourse. From trade wars to resource allocation debates, the assumption that one ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to cement his legacy in the Middle East were well underway even before he reclaimed the White House. “There’s just no way that President Trump isn’t going to be ...

Mehul Shastri claims that these videos are based on the philosophy of Shri Vishwanath Shastri, his tutor, who read the Vedas, Upanishads, other religious texts and studied Ayurveda to come up with the ...

When headlines include a cause-effect conclusion based on correlational evidence, that’s the false cause fallacy, and it can mislead the public with concerning consequences. I’ve previously ...

The world is full of random events such as 'Will tomorrow's stock prices rise or fall?', 'Will the ball be kicked left or right in a penalty kick?', and 'Will the lottery ticket I've been buying ...

Though it is full of fallacies, so-called Marxian “class” analysis still pervades much popular and political discourse. This divisive worldview unnecessarily exacerbates conflicts between groups ...

The failure to understand independence lies at the heart of two famous phenomena: the gambler's fallacy and the "hot hand" in sports. When we do understand independence, we can make better ...