Skeptophilia

It was over ten years ago that I ran into the bizarre claim that the Rh negative allele -- the gene that gives people type-negative blood --...

So our conspiracy theory of the day is: the US government is hiding living giant humanoids to create a race of hybrid super-soldiers. This, ...

Regular readers of this blog may remember that about a year ago, a student of mine attempted to kill me by sending me  a video clip of an ap...

Today, I ran across a truly wonderful site, if by "wonderful" you mean "bizarre."  It is called Divinorum Psychonauticus...

Sometimes I react differently to scientific discoveries than ordinary people do. A few days ago, I read a press release from Caltech with ...

So our conspiracy theory of the day is: the US government is hiding living giant humanoids to create a race of hybrid super-soldiers. This...

That people believe all sorts of weird things without any hard evidence is so obvious as to barely merit saying.  What never fails to astou...

One of the things that perplexes me about woo-woo beliefs is how specific they can get. You don't just think there's an afterlife,...

I get the weirdest emails sometimes. I suppose it comes with the territory, given some of the stuff I blog about.  The problem is, not kn...

(One of a series of reposts, for your enjoyment while I'm on vacation.  First posted in May 2011.) ***********************************...

There has been a rather unfortunate upswing lately in sites that have names like "The Dark Truth About ____," and which try to put...

In the past few posts, we've dealt with issues like Siri predicting the Apocalypse, Noah's Ark has been found but the government is ...