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Our capacity for seeing patterns is absolutely critical. It's easy to see how survival in a risky world could hinge on noticing clues in...

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...

What strikes me about the last ten years isn't just the slow slide into fascism, the grift, the corruption, the attempted codification i...

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 ...

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...