The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

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

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

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious.

Humans evolved brains that are pattern-recognition machines, adept at detecting signals that enhance or threaten survival amid a very noisy world. ... But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.