Skeptophilia

Ten years ago I wrote a piece here at Skeptophilia  about the mysterious Georgia Guidestones , a granite monument that since 1980 has stood ...

Yesterday we looked at a website haunted by the ghost of a little girl named "Repleh Snatas," which would be kind of creepy if she...

In today's episode of Missives From Insane People Who Still Somehow Get A National Platform, we have: Paul McGuire, self-styled "En...

A couple of days ago, a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link with the message, "I thought I'd seen it all."...

I'm not in the habit of using Skeptophilia  as a forum to give publicity to weirdos, but sometimes I find a member of the Wingnut Coalit...

And to end the week in an appropriately surreal fashion, yet another reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link that gives you instructions to ...

Confirmation bias really bugs me. This is the tendency of people to accept minuscule amounts of evidence if it seems to support what they ...

Sometimes I wish that if people want to espouse crazy worldviews, they'd jump right in and do it, and not claim that there's a logic...

What is it about President Obama that has brought out the conspiracy wingnuts in droves? Maybe it's just that I wasn't as aware of...

Are you worried about the New World Order?  Do you fear that the Reptilians are powerful enough to infiltrate the government unchallenged?  ...

(The last of a series of reposts, for your enjoyment while I'm on vacation.  First posted in September 2011.  I'll be back in the sa...

There are times -- and I say this with all due affection toward my fellow human beings -- that I wish people would just get a freakin' g...

There are two reasons that conspiracy theorists drive me crazy. One is that they consistently accept weird, convoluted explanations for ev...