Skeptophilia

I've played English country dance music for years.  It's a lovely repertoire, and playing for dances creates a wonderful synergy of ...

It's easy to get beaten down by the constant barrage of bad news. This effect is amplified if you, like me, suffer from anxiety and depr...

I'm currently reading Michael Novacek's fascinating book Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs , which is about the expeditions led by Nov...

Just about everyone has heard about the Roswell Incident , the 1947 discovery of military balloon debris near Roswell, New Mexico that gave ...

A point I've made here at Skeptophilia  more than once is that I don't automatically  disbelieve  in anyone's claim of having a ...

There's a peculiar twist on confirmation bias -- which is the tendency to accept without question poor or faulty evidence in favor of a...

I went into historical linguistics because of my fascination with origins. It's manifested in other realms of study.  My primary interes...

Nobel Prize-winning Hungarian biochemist Albert von Szent-Györgyi  once made the pithy observation that "Discovery consists of seeing w...

I've mentioned before how much I love a good mystery, and there's a hell of a good one underneath the town of Margate, Kent, England...