Skeptophilia

It's way too easy to let yourself get caught up in all the ugliness in the news. Scandals, allegations of crimes of all sorts by vario...

When NASA's New Horizons  probe made a flyby of Pluto last summer, it sent back remarkably detailed photographs of this strange frozen ...

The possibility of communicating with an alien race has been a mesmerizing idea for decades.  Even if the science fiction movies of the 1950...

I spend a lot of time, here at Skeptophilia,  railing at unscientific, irrational views of the world.  Today, I'd like to celebrate a ma...