Skeptophilia

A friend of mine posted a link on social media about how forty percent of Republicans approve of how Donald Trump has handled the whole hor...

I've been writing here at Skeptophilia  for fourteen years, so I guess it's to be expected that some of my opinions have changed ove...

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

My mom was an extremely devout Roman Catholic, and I still recall her instructing me to "pray to St. Jude " when I was worried abo...

In today's News of the Surreal, we have: the Vatican is tightening the rules on what it's willing to call divine supernatural phenom...

Let me just say for the record that if you're making a claim, your case is not  strengthened by lying about the evidence. The topic come...

Okay, now I've heard everything. If you ever run across a more ridiculous claim, I do not  want to know about it.  This one already lowe...

If there's one thing I've learned from nine years of writing here at Skeptophilia , it's that there is no idea so weird that som...

Because it's always a losing bet to say the state of things in the United States couldn't get any weirder, today we have: a priest ...