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Well, it was nice knowing you all. I have it on good authority that today is the Rapture, wherein Jesus reappears on Earth, selects a few of...

A while back, I wrote about the strange and disheartening research by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter , the upshot of w...

As most of you undoubtedly know, on Monday, April 8, there's going to be a total solar eclipse visible in much of North America.  I'...

A while back, I wrote about the strange and disheartening research by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter , the upshot of w...

If it hadn't been for a sharp-eyed loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I might well have missed the fact that the Rapture is going to happen ...

I try not to spend too much time focusing on completely loony ideas here at Skeptophilia.   Wackos are, after all, a dime a dozen, and grabb...

I have commented more than once about my incredulity with regards to end-of-the-world predictions.  Despite the fact that to date, they have...

Hi!  Hope you're having a lovely day so far.  Enjoy what you can of it, because we're all gonna die today. At least that's the c...

The American public has quite a taste for the dire predictions from the Book of Revelation.  Consider, for example, the 2014 Rapture-based m...