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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...

One of the most persistent -- dare I say, canonical -- stories of alien abduction is the tale of Betty and Barney Hill . The gist of the sto...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  -- and, heaven knows, my friends and family -- are well aware that one of my obsessions is the possibility ...

Because the universe has an odd sense of humor sometimes, I suppose it wasn't surprising that after writing a post about how there's...

While snooping around looking for topics for Skeptophilia , I stumbled upon a page over on Quora that made me utter a string of really bad ...

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...

Well, another alleged UFO artifact has been analyzed and found wanting. It's gotten to be a pattern, hasn't it?  Someone claims to h...

To round out the week in an appropriately surreal fashion, today we consider one of the most pressing issues facing mankind, to wit: Is the ...