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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...

There's a reason skeptics have a problem with anecdotal evidence and eyewitness testimony. It's not that that it's impossible th...

When I was a kid, I was big fan of books with names like Strange True Tales of the Supernatural and World of the Weird .  These books often...

One of the problems that crops up in discussions of cryptids is that a lot of people consistently fall back on arguments based upon the numb...

I'm going to propose a new law, in the vein of Murphy's Law ("If it can go wrong, it will"), Betteridge's Law ("I...

One thing I find to be somewhere between amusing and maddening is the length to which people will go to hang on to their cherished notions. ...

When the topic of the paranormal comes up, I'm sometimes asked how I can be so sure that (fill in the blank: ghosts, cryptids, psychic ...

Rounding out Paleontology Week is a story courtesy of my friend and long-time loyal reader of Skeptophilia , the brilliant novelist Tyler To...

In recent posts we have dealt with sending a binary message to extraterrestrial intelligence, helicopters in ancient Egypt, and a creature i...