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

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...

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...

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 ...