Skeptophilia

The specter of climate change is getting difficult to ignore.  While you still can't point at a particular event and say "that happ...

Ever heard of André Thevet ? Born around 1516 in Angoulême, France, he was educated in the convent school of that city, although his teach...

There's a common comment from climate change deniers that I'm sick unto death of, and it usually takes the form of something like ...

Before you jump to a wild explanation for something, it's a good idea to rule out prosaic explanations first. Take, for example, the s...

Mark Twain once said, "The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to be believable." I ran across a particul...

One of the posts that earned me the most hate mail was one I did a while back on the Zika virus , wherein I suggested that what the scientis...

UFO enthusiasts are currently in a tizzy over the disappearance last week of a university student from Rio Branco, Brazil, who left behind ...

This week I ran into a couple of claims of a type I'd never heard of before -- and considering how long I've been in the game of ana...

Before you jump to a wild explanation for something, it's a good idea to rule out prosaic explanations first. Take, for example, the ...

Every once in a while, I'll run into a story that just gives me the shudders, despite my generally rationalistic approach.  All this doe...

Today we have a rather ironic story out of Brazil . Cabaret owner Tarcilia Bezerra, in the city of Fortaleza, wanted to expand his busines...