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Recently I've done posts about exploding lakes and colossal solar storms and places where continents are being torn in two, so it seems ...

Can I make the not-very-earthshattering observation that if you are explaining evidence supporting a belief, your argument is not made stron...

And to end the week on an appropriately surreal note, yesterday I received a friendly email from a loyal reader of Skeptophilia of the ...

Since (surprise!) we've all once again survived the apocalypse, and Saturday September 24, 2022 turned out to be less of a "day to ...

Of all the unpleasant feelings in the world, I think I hate humiliation the most. I once said that I would rather be physically beaten than ...

It's been awfully hard to keep my spirits up lately. There are the ongoing issues -- the Omicron spike of COVID worldwide (and watching ...

So far loyal readers of Skeptophilia  have sent me four different links to the same underlying story, along with a message along the lines o...

It's been awhile since we've have a truly goofy claim to consider, so to take a brief diversion from more serious issues, today I br...

In the episode of Doctor Who  called "The Ark in Space," the Fourth Doctor says, "Homo sapiens.  What an inventive, invincibl...

It's all too easy lately to find reasons to criticize humans.  I'm guilty of contributing to it myself, by my focus on pseudoscienti...

When I first read C. S. Lewis's book Out of the Silent Planet , when I was in high school, one of the things that struck me was his visi...