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 ...

Sometimes being a skeptic means answering the question, "So what happened?" with the rather unsatisfying response, "We don...

Just about everyone has heard about the Roswell Incident , the 1947 discovery of military balloon debris near Roswell, New Mexico that gave ...

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...