The name Sherlock Holmes is all but synonymous with logic. Sherlock isn't gullible. Through every iteration of the Holmes mysteries, every reboot and retelling and fanfiction story, the world's most ...

Since his death in 1930, at least a dozen authors have offered up biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, one of them with almost the same title as this one. Russell Miller’s excuse for another is that ...

Two photographs which famously fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into believing in fairies have sold at auction for more than ten times their estimated value. The images of the Cottingley Fairies, as they ...

First human embryos edited in the United States. Megan Molteni discusses some (not all) of the problems with Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s research. The Third Reich and “World Ice Theory”: “Throughout this ...

How did the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who once stated, “The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply,” come to believe not only in communications from beyond the grave but in fairies?

In 1917, photographs taken by Yorkshire schoolgirls Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths appeared to capture images of actual fairies. Arthur Conan Doyle disseminated the photos, then defended them from ...