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The Candle Archive

Science essays, with an eye on pseudoscience — a candle in the dark.

“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility.”

— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

Latest essays

New essays are published here as they are written. If something is wrong, say so — corrections are welcome and will be made openly.