Skeptophilia

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...

From the make-of-this-what-you-will department, today we have: a well-respected and decorated military veteran and former member of both the...

Some of you may have seen the piece done on 60 Minutes  a few days ago about UAPs -- unidentified aerial phenomena -- which most of us call ...