Skeptophilia

Some years ago, as part of the research I did while writing my novel Sephirot , I purchased a copy of Richard Cavendish's book The Black...

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post claiming that someone had programmed an artificial intelligence to cast magical spells, and that sent me do...

So for today's Tempest in a Teapot, we have: Hillary Clinton's health. A couple of days ago, Clinton collapsed at a 9/11 ceremony,...

Yesterday I got a spam reply on one of my old Skeptophilia  posts. It happens pretty often, and I usually just ignore them, being that (1...

Writing a blog like this one, the usual gist of which is that people believe bizarre things, means that I get the oddest emails sometimes. ...

I just found something new for the Do-It-Yourself crowd; a how-to for making your own voodoo doll . The idea of voodoo dolls has been arou...

A good many of the topics I discuss on Skeptophilia are serious, and more than a few are (or should be) rage-inducing. There are times when...

It's been a busy week,  here at Worldwide Wacko Watch.  I and my investigative team (made up of my two highly-trained dogs, Doolin and G...

"What does it all mean?" It's a question you hear posed an awful lot.  The search for meaning is behind most of the world...

Here at Worldwide Wacko Watch, we've got our eyes on three stories from far afield. Let's begin with a tragedy in Wales, and hope ...