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Twice a year, a nearby town has a Friends of the Library used book sale that has become justly famous all over the region.  It features a qu...

Self-proclaimed psychics hated   James Randi , the venerable debunker of all things paranormal, who died in October 2020 at the honorable ag...

Yesterday one of my Critical Thinking students brought to my attention one Miroslaw Magola, the Polish man who  claims that metal objects sp...

Following hard on the heels of my post suggesting that caveat emptor  is all well and good, but there should be a way to stop swindlers from...

Ouija boards are back in the news again, perhaps because of the recent release of the movie Ouija, which has people stirred up despite getti...

One of the things I find hard to understand about woo-woos is their hostility toward the people who want to test their beliefs. Not the ac...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia may remember my writing a few months ago about a challenge issued a while back by the Merseyside Skeptics So...