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Our capacity for seeing patterns is absolutely critical. It's easy to see how survival in a risky world could hinge on noticing clues in...

Aficionados of Star Trek: The Next Generation  might recall the fourth-season episode "In Theory."  It had to do with the usual te...

In Paul McCaw's musical comedy The Trumpets of Glory , angels back various causes on Earth as a kind of competitive contest.  Anything f...

Is it just me, or has the quality of the conspiracy theories really been dropping off lately? I mean, back in the day, you had your Moon-lan...

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

We've dealt with a lot of conspiracy theories here at Skeptophilia .  Amongst the more notable: COVID-19 was a bioterrorism agent sent ...

Just in the last couple of weeks, I've been getting "sponsored posts" on Instagram suggesting what I really need is an "A...

Yesterday's post, about the strange resurgence of a fifty-year-old claim that the Dogon tribe of west Africa found out about Sirius'...

Well, The Daily Mail  Fail  is at it again, this time with a claim that the CIA has declassified a book predicting the end of the world (wh...