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Lately there's been a surge of Bigfoot sightings in North Carolina. These sorts of things are fuel to the cryptozoologists' fire. ...

In further evidence that we've been transported from 2018 back to 1830, the Republican nominee for the North Carolina General Assembly ...

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...

Just because I keep hoisting the banner of rationalism here at Skeptophilia  doesn't mean I don't get pretty freakin' discourage...

We humans are poor at assessing risk. It's something I've commented upon before; we tend to vastly overestimate the likelihood of ...

I cannot stomach pious hypocrisy. Unfortunately, that's all we're being served by Congress at the moment with respect to providing...

I know that social media lends itself to vitriol, but for sheer ugly invective I don't think I've ever seen anything like the posts ...

I try not to let my skepticism slide over into cynicism.  The latter, a disbelieve-everything-they-say approach, seems to me to be as funda...

One of the things that strikes me about the most fervently religious is that they seem to believe in a contradictory set of premises: that (...

So, today we're going to investigate a topic that I know is weighing heavily on all of your minds: is the Vampire Beast of North Carolin...

There is something going in on North Carolina right now that I bet a lot of you haven't heard about.  It's gotten barely any press c...