Skeptophilia

I was chatting with my younger son a couple of days ago.  He's a professional scientific glassblower, so anything having to do with the ...

Can I just say that I am sick unto death of people misrepresenting science? Some scientist somewhere makes a discovery, and it seems to take...

In today's contribution from the "So Weird I Couldn't Possibly Make It Up" department, the owner of a magical tools store ...

I get a lot of odd links sent to me, which I suppose I should expect, given that strange claims are kind of our stock-in-trade here at Skept...

Yesterday I found something so amazingly ridiculous that at first I thought it was a joke. Sadly, it is not. I told some friends about i...

Can I just say that I am sick unto death of people misrepresenting science? Some scientist somewhere makes a discovery, and it seems to ta...

New from the "So Weird I Couldn't Possibly Make It Up" department, the owner of a magical tools store in England is refusing t...

As if there weren't enough ways to prey upon the gullible, in the last few years there has been a dramatic rise in offers for "ener...

First, let me just say that I love my students. Far from conforming to the slacker, disaffected teenage stereotype, I find that nearly all...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday we were in Northampton, Massachusetts visiting family, and we took the opportunity to visit an amazing used bo...

Last year I wrote a piece on the phenomenon of people labeling themselves or their kids " Indigo Children ."  An "Indigo Chi...

Ordinarily I don't pay any attention to celebrities. Part of it comes from not having a working television connection.  I live too far...

I am endlessly fascinated with animal behavior.  Besides having been a pet owner for more or less my entire life, I have been a fanatical bi...