According to Blaise Pascal, believers have nothing to lose from putting their faith into a deity that might not exist while atheists shoulder all the risk. But what if Pascal missed what it means to be a believer?

Finally, there's a skeptical expert voice addressing the panic about our potential AI overlords.

Parents were shocked by the offensive content on the t-shirts worn by the Smith-Cotton High School marching band: a reference to evolution.

A premiere pediatric hospital is being awfully friendly to anti-vaccine and homeopathic cranks and quacks.

The Singularity Institute has been reading Weird Things and they have some objections...

Just because the appendix is a vestigial organ doesn't mean it can't perform a minor beneficial function every once in a while.

UK academics want to know if a sufficiently advanced robot goes on a killing spree should also stand trial for its crimes.

Bill Dembski thinks he can disprove evolution with information theory. But he doesn't understand enough about biology or statistics to apply it.

Wormholes exist, but they may be impractical for travel according to what we know about the physics behind them.

No matter what we try, we can't get around the need for dark matter in our equations and observations.

Homeopaths are dangerous enough in developed countries. They could be a devastating malice in the third world.

Science is under attack in classrooms and pop culture. The NCSE is trying to change that.

The Creation Museum is running a science fair. Yes, it's the same thing as a slaughterhouse having a confab about veganism.

Current plans for our return to the Moon seem a little too vague to be successful.

"Sure she's a public health menace, and sure she's an ignoramus. But isn't she so pretty and outspoken?"