Skepticism

Philosophical skepticism is an overall approach that requires all information to be well supported by evidence.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Skepticism"

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Science Fictions
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do about It
Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot
The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Is This Wi-Fi Organic?: A Guide to Spotting Misleading Science Online
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
The God Delusion
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
Bad Science
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Bad Astronomy
Letter to a Christian Nation
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
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Atheist Fiction
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Escape To Reality
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Christopher Hitchens
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

Arthur C. Clarke
I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
Arthur C. Clarke

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