Elizabeth Sherman starts with a harmless superstition (touching the plane’s fuselage before boarding) and ends up somewhere far less harmless: how the human tendency to see causation where there is none feeds antiscience, bad policy, and needless suffering. From evolution denial to vaccine myths, she shows how our misunderstanding of science doesn’t just make us wrong. It makes people die. Full essay: https://ow.ly/CjBz50WCZ78 | Skeptical Inquirer

The Hellboy Film Series: An Overview The Hellboy film franchise is based on the Dark Horse Comics character created by writer-artist Mike Mignola in 1993. Three feature films have been released, each with a different creative approach. Hellboy (2004) was directed by Guillermo del Toro and starred Ron Perlman as Hellboy, alongside Selma Blair (Liz Sherman) and John Hurt (Professor Trevor Bruttenholm). The film emphasized practical effects and gothic fantasy. It grossed approximately $99 million w