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In my Latin and Greek classes, I always warned my students to avoid Google Translate. It's not that it's a bad tool, honestly, as lo...

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 you needed further evidence that whoever is controlling the simulation we're all trapped in has gotten drunk and/or stoned, and now t...

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...

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...

In today's episode of Missives From Insane People Who Still Somehow Get A National Platform, we have: Paul McGuire, self-styled "En...

In my Latin and Greek classes, I always warn my students to avoid Google Translate. It's not that it's a bad tool, honestly, as lo...

I know I've said this before, but one of the most baffling things for me about the Trump presidency is that evangelical Christians (most...

Several times here at Skeptophilia  headquarters we've made fun of people predicting the end of the world, be it from a collision with t...