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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 peculiar twist on confirmation bias -- which is the tendency to accept without question poor or faulty evidence in favor of a...

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...

One argument against UFOs being alien visitors from other star systems is that the number of UFO sightings has risen in direct proportion to...

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

One of the problems that crops up in discussions of cryptids is that a lot of people consistently fall back on arguments based upon the numb...

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...