Skeptophilia

When I taught Critical Thinking in high school, one of the principles I harped on was "check your sources." The difficulty is, I d...

Ever heard of Pan Am Flight 914 ? The story goes that on July 2, 1955, Flight 914 -- a Boeing 727 -- took off on a routine run from New York...

It's been awhile since we've have a truly goofy claim to consider, so to take a brief diversion from more serious issues, today I br...

Let me say up front, both for my skeptical and not-so-skeptical readers, that I'm not saying I believe the account I'm about to tell...

Because yesterday's post -- which was about a bunch of sinkholes in the Siberian tundra being evidence of aerial dogfights between rival...

When one of my loyal readers sent me an email asking if I'd heard about the alien microchip implanted in Napoleon's skull, I knew th...

I'll be honest, I have no idea how Google works.  In fact, computers in general baffle me.  I can do a few basic things, enough to get b...

I know scientists say that nothing moves faster than light, but I bet that bullshit comes close. The difficulty with getting a straight st...