Skeptophilia

After fifteen years of writing here at Skeptophilia , one thing that never fails to amaze me is how little it takes to get a crazy claim goi...

One of the things that bothers me most about the woo-woo mindset is the apparent need they feel to superimpose some kind of paranormal friss...

We have an unfortunate tendency to idealize the past. Well, unfortunate is probably the wrong word.  I don't guess it does any real har...

One of the coolest things about science is the cross-fertilization that happens between disciplines. I'm always impressed when I see exa...

A while back I wrote about the rather terrifying idea of the "Great Filter" -- that life, especially sentient life, might be rare...

Not long ago, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, The Drowned Cathedral , and I started to wonder what legend ha...

It's always thin ice to make too many assumptions about why our distant ancestors did what they did. Most of the time, all we have is th...

I've mentioned before how much I love a good mystery, and there's a hell of a good one underneath the town of Margate, Kent, England...

If there's one place and historical period I could choose to know more about, it would be England during, and immediately following, the...