If there is indeed a sucker born every minute, there are at least three con artists born every 30 seconds destined to take him for a ride. We are going through an epidemic of Pigeon Fever, ...

Our newspapers frequently offer an odd juxtaposition of events daring us to see parallels, to compare and contrast. Glenn Cook’s column in the Sunday Review-Journal on how the Social Security and ...

"Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out." –G. K. Chesterton Many people–including psychologists–think that humans are, as a rule, stupid or mean or self-absorbed, and thereby declare a ...

Joseph Paul Forgas receives funding from the Australian Research Council. But not everything we hear from others is useful or even true. There are countless ways people have been misled, fooled and ...

If you asked the average person why public education was created, he or she would likely say “to make it possible for people to work.” But the actual reason was to make people less gullible. The first ...

Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds gave the average sports fan what he wanted – a thrill. Those amazing years of 60-plus home runs (and 98 mph fastballs by middle-aged Roger Clemens) changed the ...

The recent prediction of the end of the world by Harry Camping and his followers has brought into sharp relief how gullible people can be when it comes to the matter of religious belief. To believe ...

PERHAPS I may claim to be a member of the intellectual class, as I am a college professor of the old-fashioned sort — old-fashioned, that is, in having received a liberal education; but I do not wear ...

For me, it’s easy to see grifts and avoid them. Nick Fuentes does not use mainstream platforms, so he is forced to grift. Therefore, it’s way more obvious when he is being rash just for the donations.