Skeptophilia

It's understandable, I suppose, that I get really torqued by the misuse of the word skeptic  to mean "doubter" or "disbel...

It's remarkably hard to find evidence of impact craters on the Earth. If you're thinking, "What's the difficulty?  Just loo...

A couple of days ago, a long-time reader of (and frequent contributor of topics for) Skeptophilia  sent me an email saying "Time to get...

I've been an avid birdwatcher for many years, and have been fortunate enough to travel to some amazingly cool places in search of avifau...

Back in 1859, renowned British naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace wrote a paper about a peculiar phenomenon, which has since been called Wal...

First, we had a " Quantum Pendant " that was supposed to realign your chakra frequencies (or something like that), but was recalle...

I'm always amazed at the depth of information paleontologists can glean from fossils. And I'm not even including the ones that show ...

The attitudes and practices of colonialism did incalculable damage, and not least on the list is the fact that (by and large) the colonizers...

As skeptics, sometimes we have to admit that there are cases when we don't know the answer to a question -- and may not ever know. It...

Sometimes all it takes is one new discovery to send scientists back to the drawing board. Of course, as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson c...