In science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.

Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.