If you've poured your heart out on social media about a political issue, it might have felt cathartic—but likely was not persuasive, Cornell research finds. Americans are skeptical of emotional ...

Skepticism is a powerful tool. One that can and should be used in a variety of situations. And at first glance a properly skeptical attitude seems so easy to adopt: just, like, try not to believe ...

When you think of the audit of the future, what words come to mind? Big data, artificial intelligence, virtual workforce, blockchain, professional skepticism? If professional skepticism didn’t make ...

What does it mean to be a skeptic? Can one be skeptical about one thing, and a true believer in something else? Or is selective skepticism not really skepticism at all? This is an issue that has been ...

A climate advocacy group called Skeptical Science hosts a list of academics that it has labeled “climate misinformers.” The list includes 17 academics and is intended as a blacklist. We know of this ...

Your obituary of Joseph Sobran described him as having “a skeptical line on the Holocaust” (“Joseph Sobran, 64, Writer Whom Buckley Mentored,” Oct. 2). I am unsure what it means to be “skeptical” ...