Skeptophilia

Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week

Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2026

The shaggy one

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After a recent post about the " Beast of Gévaudan ," an undeniably real creature that slaughtered between sixty and a hundred of t...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Beastly

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I'm currently in the alarming situation of having reached the last book in the TBR stack on my dresser. My next good opportunity to rest...
Friday, December 19, 2025

Taken by the flood

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Not long ago, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend ha...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

The feral child

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A point I've made before, but one I think is absolutely critical to skeptics, is that sometimes we simply don't have answers -- and ...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Lingua franca

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Here's a question I wonder if you've ever pondered: Why do the Spanish and French speak Romance languages and not Germanic ones? It...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Southern European retrospective

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Greetings, loyal readers, I'm back a couple of days earlier than anticipated from a two-and-a-half week's trip to Europe, still a bi...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Echoes of the ancestors

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I recently finished geneticist Bryan Sykes's book, Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: A Genetic History of Britain and Ireland , which describe...
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