Skeptophilia

In his book Nothing's Sacred: The Truth About Judaism , media scholar Douglas Rushkoff discusses his concept of "open-source religi...

I've been writing here at Skeptophilia  for fourteen years, so I guess it's to be expected that some of my opinions have changed ove...

[Spoiler alert!  This post contains spoilers for the most recent Doctor Who  episode, "Lucky Day."  If you're planning on watc...

There's an odd claim circulating social media these days.  This is the form of it I've seen most frequently: First, just to get this...

It's all too easy to dismiss conspiracy theorists as just being dumb, and heaven knows I've fallen into that often enough myself. Pa...

"All politicians are liars." "I don't trust anyone." "You have to watch your back constantly." "Nothi...

I've long been curious how far back beliefs in the supernatural go. From what we know about ancient religions and mythologies, belief in...

Some historical discoveries are in that gray area between evocative and frustrating as hell.  The evocative part because it gives us a glimp...

Every once in a while a piece of scientific research comes along that is so clever and elegant that I read the entire paper with a smile on ...

There's a folk truism that goes, "Don't try to bullshit a bullshitter." The implication is that people who exaggerate and/...