Skeptophilia

Thanks to my friend, the ever-sharp-eyed author Gil Miller , I now have a giant bruise in the middle of my forehead from doing facepalms. Gi...

Yesterday a friend sent me an article from Sentinel News  by Charles Magrin entitled, " A Real Phenomenon, A Cultural Taboo ," tha...

Because in the last ten years saying, "Well, things can't get any weirder" has been a losing proposition, now we have: Donald ...

There's a general rule-of-thumb that if you are trying to get people to believe some outlandish idea, you do not  increase your chances ...

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me an email asking me what my opinion was about two current candidates for evidence of alien spacecraft...

There's a bias that's a bit like an inverted appeal to authority : anyone who repeatedly and stridently makes claims that prove to b...

It always astonishes me how much it takes for people to say to some nonsense-spouting pseudo-pundit, "You are nuttier than squirrel shi...

Because my reputation has apparently preceded me, I have now been sent a link five times to a news story about an alleged governmental meeti...

The UFO community -- and, honestly, a great many other people -- are buzzing today because of the U.S. congressional hearing on Wednesday a...