Skeptophilia

Well, The Daily Mail  Fail  is at it again, this time with a claim that the CIA has declassified a book predicting the end of the world (wh...

Halloween is this Thursday, so you know what that means: pumpkin decorations and skeletons and ghosts everywhere, candy of all kinds for sal...

Yesterday, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend had g...

I try to avoid simply writing day after day about people saying loony stuff, but sometimes I just can't help myself. That's why ...

I've tended to shy away from posting about creationists lately. For one thing, I've said all I really intend to say on the subject...

Because clearly the news hasn't been surreal enough lately, today we have: an Australian geologist is suing the U. S. National Parks Ser...

I have some friends who are currently trying to kill me. At least, that's the only interpretation I can put on the fact that their Chr...

So yesterday, Ken Ham's flagship project Ark Encounter  opened with much fanfare, thus proving that it takes $102 million dollars and a ...

I get really fed up with the media. I make a significant point in my Critical Thinking classes that there is no such thing as unbiased med...

I've written before about "Ark Encounter," the biblical theme park currently under construction in Williamston, Kentucky.  The...