Skeptophilia

One argument against UFOs being alien visitors from other star systems is that the number of UFO sightings has risen in direct proportion to...

It's a sad truth that written records are ephemeral. The Library of Alexandria burns, taking with it an unguessed number of priceless ma...

I get a lot of odd links sent to me, which I suppose I should expect, given that strange claims are kind of our stock-in-trade here at Skept...

Yesterday, we had an elderly gentleman in Spain who is building a spaceship to go to a planet that doesn't exist, and he should have kno...

Heard about the Irish UFO? I'd resisted posting about this one, because every single time I run into an article that says "TOTALL...

Prompted by yesterday's post regarding the tendency of some people to amplify their feelings into facts (and in the process, ignore the ...

This weekend, I inadvertently started an online argument about the Syrian refugees. I rarely get involved in political discussions online ...

Some of my readers may remember that last year, Iranian news agencies announced that they had invented a spaceship that ran on "regula...

For the third year in a row, Foley's Irish Pub in New York City has declared a general ban on the singing of "O Danny Boy" on ...