This pair of photos shows a view of the crowd on the National Mall at the inaugurations of President Barack Obama, above, on Jan. 20, 2009, and President Donald Trump, below, on Jan. 20, 2017.

Although we do not personally undertake the experiments to verify things, many of us still believe what science tells us. Few of us overrule our eyes and imagine invisible things.

It’s amazing the amount of assumptions that are made about a man wearing a suit or a man wearing coveralls, even if that is the same man.

Do We Believe Our Own Dogma? Former President Donald Trump takes the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, August 6, 2022. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) ...

Why do so many people hold beliefs that are clearly false? A recent story on this site said 80 million Americans believe we have been visited by aliens from another planet, and numerous studies ...

The key to avoid being duped, as it turns out, is to communicate with each other and foster an open mind. The more we talk and debate with each other, the less likely we are to believe the deceit ...

Why do we believe conspiracy theories? April 16, 2020 at 8:07 am Updated April 16, 2020 at 2:06 pm . By . Chris Churchill. Syndicated columnist.

In the early days of the modern web there was a running joke about not believing everything one read on the Internet. It seems somewhere along the way our distrust of unknown information gave way ...

Rather, we believe in images when they “emanate” or come out of a world that we already believe in. “Belief does not arise from the object of the photograph,” he concludes. “It comes ...

At the end of the day, for many worldwide, the ongoing mutual attacks between Israel and Iran would seem a contest devoid of any moral high ground and only a bout between two ordinary adversaries, one ...