Skeptophilia

Any idea what volcano is responsible for the largest known eruption? Krakatau ?  No.  Vesuvius and the Campi Flegrei ?  Not even close.  Ta...

By now, I'm sure all of you have heard about the 6-3 decision by the United States Supreme Court in favor of a Colorado web designer who...

I've dealt more than once here at Skeptophilia  with the repeated mass extinctions the Earth has undergone.  Part of this is that I have...

Yesterday, we found out that the president of the United States ordered his lawyer to commit perjury before Congress, and has taken his ...

I try not to let my skepticism slide over into cynicism.  The latter, a disbelieve-everything-they-say approach, seems to me to be as funda...

I try not to repeat myself, I honestly do.  Recycling topics -- the way Ann Coulter's column always seems to boil down to liberals bein...

Many of you have undoubtedly been following the news of the horrific wildfires, last week in Colorado and this week in Arizona .  Thus far...

A particularly subtle problem in establishing whether a claim is pseudoscience, or at least flawed, has to do with source credibility.  Note...

Here at Worldwide Wacko Watch, we're keeping our eyes on two breaking cryptozoological stories. First, we have a report in from West B...