Skeptophilia

Back in the fifth century C. E., things had been looking pretty hopeless for the Jewish people in the Middle East for nearly three centuries...

When Vermont Governor George Aiken was asked in 1966 what should be done about the ongoing military debacle in Vietnam, he famously responde...

There's an odd claim circulating social media these days.  This is the form of it I've seen most frequently: First, just to get this...

If it hadn't been for a sharp-eyed loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I might well have missed the fact that the Rapture is going to happen ...

Today is the launch of my hero's journey novel Sephirot !  An ordinary man is suddenly catapulted into a network of interconnected world...

I find it simultaneously amusing and terrifying how steeped in self-delusion some folks are. Now, it's not that I think I'm always r...

The American public has quite a taste for the dire predictions from the Book of Revelation.  Consider, for example, the 2014 Rapture-based m...

I try not to devote too much time to claims that are simply crazy.  After all, wacko claims are a dime a dozen, and some of the delusional f...

For those of you who are, like me, evil, sinful unbelievers who are doomed to the fiery furnace for all eternity, I have some good news: A...