Skeptophilia

In my last post, we looked at a wild story illustrating the general principle that once some crazy claim gets out there, it's damn near ...

I suppose it was a natural progression. First we had AI art, starting out with the innocent-seeming "Show me what I'd look like as ...

Inevitably when I post something to the effect of "ha-ha, isn't this the weirdest thing you've ever heard?", my readers ta...

We'll end the week on an appropriately surreal note. Every once in a while, I'll run into an off-the-wall claim that admits of no pa...

Apparently prompted by Saturday's post, about some of the bizarre manuscripts that didn't quite make the cut when the ancient church...

New from the I Swear I'm Not Making This Up department, we have: a company selling "Jesus sneakers." Brooklyn-based design c...

Yesterday's political post resulted in five people calling me a "libtard snowflake" (or the equivalent), a recommendation to ...

There are people for whom the line between reality and fantasy gets so blurred that at some point, I'm not even convinced they know whe...

Sometimes I sow the seeds of my own facepalms. It happened just yesterday, when on a lark I clicked on the link to Skeptophilia 's Goo...