Skeptophilia

Yesterday's post, about the remarkable similarities between mythological gods and goddesses in cultures widely separated in space and ti...

One of the very first topics I addressed here at Skeptophilia  -- only a few months after I started, in fall of 2010 -- was the idea of the...

Of all of the sciences, geology is the one where deep understanding of the underlying processes eluded us the longest.  Even the two other c...

One of the most frustrating things about science, from the point of view of non-scientists, is that sometimes we have to say "we simply...

Ever since Donald Trump came on the political scene, bragging that he could shoot someone in full view on Fifth Avenue and not lose a single...

I had a discussion with a friend of mine a few days ago about one of the most frustrating things -- especially for those of us plagued with ...

Yesterday over at The Anomalist , a website I frequent that acts as a sort of clearinghouse for News of the Weird, I ran into a link to a po...

Because my reputation has apparently preceded me, I have now been sent a link five times to a news story about an alleged governmental meeti...

Ever heard of cocoliztli ? In one way, it's shocking if you haven't, and in another, hardly surprising at all, because the vast majo...