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A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  emailed me a couple of days ago. "I think I've figured out why you're such a doubter...

The danger of posting something and saying, "Wow, how ridiculous is this  claim?" is that my loyal readers take that as some kind ...

I was just thinking yesterday that it'd been a long time since I'd seen a good example of the kind of loony New Age woo-woo I seemed...

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...

Whilst casting about for a topic for today's post, I stumbled upon an article in Medium from June of last year entitled, " Is the G...

As part of the ongoing effort by my readers to drive me completely insane, today I have two links that were sent to me with a "You Gott...

Long-time readers of Skeptophilia  may remember that a few years ago, I did a piece on the " Indigo Children " -- kids who are the...

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

The cult of personality is a dangerous thing.  Whenever a person's brand becomes more important than what (s)he is claiming, there's...

It appears that we have a new religion on our hands. Vice  reported this week that actor Andrew Keegan has founded his own cult, called ...

Last year I wrote a piece on the phenomenon of people labeling themselves or their kids " Indigo Children ."  An "Indigo Chi...

One of the problems I face in selecting stories to highlight in Skeptophilia  is that it is often difficult to tell the difference between ...