Skeptophilia

I made a comment a couple of days ago on social media that American citizens should vote on Tuesday as if their lives depended on it -- ...

Today we have two stories that are interesting in juxtaposition. The first is out of North Bend, Oregon, where two high school students re...

There have been some interesting, and all too predictable, responses to a study that appeared in the  Archives of Sexual Behavior  this week...

Happy Halloween to all of my loyal readers.  I'm saying this because "Happy Scary Day Of Your Choice" sounds ridiculous, so i...

Given the other news this week, I think a lot of people have missed the story about a vote on a resolution in the United Nations, to wit, th...

I have never been one to post political stuff on social media. For one thing, I don't think it changes anyone's mind.  Besides t...

Some days I really feel sorry for my Christian friends, who are (one and all), logical, thoughtful, and intelligent. The reason I say this...

You would think that after this many years of writing Skeptophilia , I'd be completely inured to weird ideas, that nothing would shock m...

I have never understood the inclination on the part of some folks to pretend that if you just don't talk about something it will go away...

In support of my recent contention that the world has gone completely batshit crazy, today we have: exorcising gay demons that are infesting...

In the ongoing effort by a particular cadre of über-Christians to emphasize one or two tenets of their faith and pretty much ignore the rest...

Yesterday I ran into the story of Sigourney Coyle, the high school student in Emmaus, Pennsylvania who is claiming she is being discriminat...