Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

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

Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from skepticism to activism.

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

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.