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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 ...

I'll start today with a quote (often misquoted) from William Shakespeare -- more specifically, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 5: Horatio: O day a...

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

Some days, I wave the banner of critical thinking proudly and boldly, confident that we humans are capable of rational thought and decision-...

I'm all for keeping an open mind, but there comes a point where my attitude is, "Produce some hard evidence or shut the hell up....

Despite doing my utmost to keep up with news from the World of the Weird, sometimes I miss one. Apparently, earlier this year, UFO enthusias...

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me an email asking me what my opinion was about two current candidates for evidence of alien spacecraft...