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As of this morning, six explosive devices addressed to prominent critics of Donald Trump have been discovered , one of them (the one mailed ...

Illustrating the general principle that loopy ideas are not restricted to one religion, race, or ethnicity, today we have: a rabbi who claim...

A couple of days ago I made the mistake of participating in that most fruitless of endeavors: an online argument with a total stranger. ...

No matter what your views, on politics or other things, I think there's something we can all agree on: The last few months have been p...

There's a saying in Senegal: "There are thirty different kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense."  I found an esp...

A question I get asked a lot is why, here in Skeptophilia , I take time away from serious matters to look at the lunatic fringe, as I did ye...

Just because I keep hoisting the banner of rationalism here at Skeptophilia  doesn't mean I don't get pretty freakin' discourage...

A lot of Trump supporters are frustrated that Their Boy didn't do so well in the debate Monday night.  I mean, it would take a serious  ...

So for today's Tempest in a Teapot, we have: Hillary Clinton's health. A couple of days ago, Clinton collapsed at a 9/11 ceremony,...

I have an update for those of you who are worried about when the world is going to end, or civilization is going to fall, which honestly wo...

Once again, the United States has been hit by a mass murder.   Fifty confirmed dead , more than that injured.  My heart is torn in half thin...

No one would be happier than me if we got unequivocal proof of intelligent life on other planets.  It would demonstrate what I've been s...

There is one word that makes me see red, skepticism-wise, and that word is "clickbait." Clickbait articles, sensationalized bu...

New from the "You're Kidding, Right?" department, we find out that it's significant that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton ...