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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...

My question today is one that haunts many skeptics -- how would you know if a bizarre claim is actually true, especially in the absence of e...