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There's a strange tendency in some humans to want to stir things up -- if life is boring or mundane, to create a flurry of interest for ...

I think we've all had moments when we were taken in by a prank or a hoax.  Some of them can be pretty clever, and after all, we're o...

It's been a while since we've had anything here at Skeptophilia  of a purely cryptozoological nature, partly because the ongoing sig...

We're at a dire crossroads, here in the United States, with a president under investigation, foreign and domestic policy decisions being...

I'm a pretty forgiving guy.  I recognize we all have failings, and heaven knows I've led a far from blameless life myself.  But ther...

In the past week, I've written about a few cases for which an application of the sharp edge of Ockham's Razor would be advisable -- ...

Over the last few weeks, with the sudden explosion of anger, partisan politics, and fake news, I fear we are moving into a period where our ...

Yesterday I ran into the story of Sigourney Coyle, the high school student in Emmaus, Pennsylvania who is claiming she is being discriminat...

Recently, we've looked at such topics as the ascribing of tragic accidents to god's will, the role of social media in spreading misi...

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...