Skeptophilia

I've wondered for years why people fall for conspiracy theories. My surmise -- and admittedly, that's all it is -- is that when bad ...

I think my problem is that I really don't understand religion. I understand, or at least think I do, religious people .  I have a lot ...

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...

People on the left side of the political aisle are currently engaging in a good bit of gloom-and-doom prognostication.  I try not to make pr...

Something I find really peculiar is the selectiveness with which people apply the tenets of their own religion. Take, for example, staunc...

There's something inherently odd about missionaries. Now, I've met some nice ones.  There were a couple of Mormons who dropped by ...

At what point are you allowed to say, "That may be your religion, but it's completely insane," without being accused of crossi...

Yesterday's post, which involved fact-free speculation about UFOs being a "macro-scale quantum effect," made me realize that i...

Today I learned that the Catholic church still engages in a practice that I thought it had abandoned years ago. I refer to the granting of...

C. S. Lewis' famous book The Screwtape Letters chronicles the tempting of a young British man (known only as "The Patient") b...

The Roman Catholic world is buzzing because of an announcement made at morning mass last Wednesday by Pope Francis. "The Lord has red...

I have it on good authority that the new pope, Francis I, is either a spy in league with extraterrestrials, or else is an emissary of the A...