Skeptophilia

In the past week, I watched two things that were interesting in juxtaposition. One of them came my way because for my holiday gift my wife g...

One of the most unusual stories that H. P. Lovecraft ever wrote is "In the Walls of Eryx."  It isn't the usual soul-sucking el...

In ten days, people in the United States will get the best shot at seeing a total solar eclipse we've had in years.  The path of totalit...

I suppose by now that I should have expected something like this, but still, I was surprised when I heard that the creationists are now aski...

So apparently, there are a number of people who have their knickers in a twist over the new Cosmos . The young-Earthers are, predictably, ...

The UFO-and-aliens crowd (and also the conspiracy theorists) currently have their knickers in a twist over an object that showed up on a pho...

Why oh why can't people just accept the scientific explanation for something?  Why must they come up with wacky woo-woo bullshit every d...