Skeptophilia

I know the universe can be a weird place sometimes, but... let's follow Carl Sagan's dictum of looking for a normal and natural expl...

Sometimes I have to check in on the r/conspiracy subreddit just to see what new nutty conspiracy theories are out there.  I try to make su...

Because we evidently don't have enough to worry about, now we have news that a rogue dead star has entered our Solar System and is eatin...

Well, we survived the apocalypse, or at least the Nibiru-induced one that was supposed to happen two days ago.  Me, I had everything prepare...

The world is going to end again. This is what, two dozen times that the world has ended?  I've lost count, honestly.  But a success ra...

I swear, the conspiracy theorists are getting faster these days. In the past, it seemed like they'd at least wait until the dust settl...

I have an update for those of you who are worried about when the world is going to end, or civilization is going to fall, which honestly wo...

A couple of days ago, I looked at the fascination we have with things that are dangerous -- tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, supernovas....

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

Sometimes I have to check in on the r/conspiracy subreddit  just to see what new nutty conspiracy theories are out there.  I try to make sur...

Sometimes I react differently to scientific discoveries than ordinary people do. A few days ago, I read a press release from Caltech with ...

I get the weirdest emails sometimes. I suppose it comes with the territory, given some of the stuff I blog about.  The problem is, not kn...

My younger son, who shares my interest in investigating wacky beliefs, sent me a perplexing email a couple of days ago. "Look up ...