Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human p…

- Steven Novella

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

- Steven Novella

Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.

- Steven Novella

Anecdotes generate questions, not answers.

- Steven Novella

History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.

- Steven Novella

Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

- Steven Novella

Creationists argue that natural selection is only a negative process, and therefore cannot create anything. Chopra argues that skepticism is only a n…

- Steven Novella

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting.

- Steven Novella

What do you think science is? There is nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and…

- Steven Novella