Cranks, quacks, and peddlers of woo would love for skeptics to tone down their criticism. In fact, they'd like us to stop it completely.

Religious apologists sure do love their fantasies of how unbelievers will be tortured in the fires of Hell...

Creationists and the school boards who either bow to them or are ran by them, are busy intimidating teachers into not teaching the science of evolution.

Biologos just found out what happens when you take a factual stand against religious zealots instead of mewing about vague, aspirational niceties.

When you don't understand how the world is changing, you can either learn more about it, or you can weave a conspiracy theory to explain it. Why do so many choose the latter?

Comparing what America and the USSR did to their own citizens during the Cold War is a fool's errand. The USSR was objectively worse to its people.

When you spend your days fear-mongering and creating imaginary existential threats, is it any wonder if violence breaks out as a consequence?

Pundits are waking up to the fact that in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the youth of today is being set up for failure.

The latest scholarly take on atheism from Conservapedia: "hur hur, u r fat..."

In American politics, scientists have two choices: a party that actively hates them and a party that merely pays lip service to their work.

WikiLeaks decides to give the world a peek at its books. Well, sort of. A few of them. And only kind of.

It seems amazing how many people seem shocked and befuddled that governments viciously compete with one another on the world stage.

Sometimes angry calls for more civility in political and social discourse are necessary. And sometimes they're just a muzzle for partisan bloviators who can dish it out but can't take it.

If skeptics are trying to win hearts and minds, they need to remember that teaching kids real science and critical thinking can't be sidelined.

Inertia applies not only to objects with mass, but to bureaucracy and large institutions that have grown out of control.