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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...

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...

One thing that drives me crazy is the tendency of the woo-woos to take a perfectly legitimate, valid piece of science, and then woo all over...

Because apparently some ill-advised person uttered the dreaded words, "Well, things can't possibly get any weirder than they alread...

This weekend, I stumbled upon one of those websites that is such a distilled bottle of crazy that I just have to tell you about it.  It invo...

In H. P. Lovecraft's seminal horror short story "At the Mountains of Madness," some scientists are sent on an expedition to An...

There's a strange tendency in some humans to want to stir things up -- if life is boring or mundane, to create a flurry of interest for ...