Skeptophilia

It's always interesting when woo-woos meld together different traditions, apparently not recognizing that if you have a ridiculous idea,...

I have frequently ranted at length about how silly the practice of astrology is.  The last mention of my general disdain for the practice pr...

I've written more than once about astrology, a slice of woo-woo that has never failed to impress me as the most completely ridiculous mo...

It's been a good while since I've written a post about a story that's just plain loony. Maybe it's because here in the Uni...

As harsh as I sometimes am about woo-woo beliefs, I understand how fear and lack of knowledge can induce you to accept counterfactual nonsen...

Dear Readers: I'm going to take a short break, for the rest of the week -- but I'll be back next Monday, November 26, so keep send...

Note to my loyal readers: This will be my last post before a two-week break so I can go to my publisher's annual writers' retreat i...

Because there's no idiotic idea that can't be made even more ridiculous by blending it with another idiotic idea, today we consider ...

Can we establish something right at the get-go? Just because something is old doesn't mean it's a good idea. Okay, ancient Greek...

I really get annoyed when apparently intelligent people do something that lends credence to nonsense. I know it's probably a waste of...