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The frustrating thing about woo-woo ideas is that they never really go away permanently. Take, for example, the Ancient Aliens thing.  It re...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do another political post so soon after Tuesday's, but dammit, my good intentions got blasted t...

If there's one thing I've learned from nine years of writing here at Skeptophilia , it's that there is no idea so weird that som...

That loony people have loony ideas is kind of a tautology.  But what amazes me is when other people listen, and continue listening, once the...

You might have heard that a while back, there was a recall on Toyotas because of a problem with stuck accelerator pedals , a malfunction tha...

It's been a while since we've heard from the contingent that believes the best way to dose a population with nasty chemicals is to p...

One of the problems with scientists being understood by laypeople is that they don't speak the same language. I'm not just talking...

If you needed any further indication that the woo-woos of the world have no particular concern whether there's any evidence to support t...

Here in the United States, we have a fine old tradition of electing people to public office who are entirely unqualified to fulfill their du...

In today's episode of "Studies in Confirmation Bias," we have a story in The Examiner  claiming that someone captured a UFO re...

I find the general anti-science stance of a large percentage of Americans completely baffling. I know you can go back to the Cold War, an...

Those of us in the northern slice of the United States have had to contend with unusually cold weather over the past few weeks, coupled with...

Yesterday a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , and frequent contributors of topics thereto, sent me a link with the note, "Nothing like exp...