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When I first started writing here at Skeptophilia , back in October of 2010, one of the first people to show up in a post was one Richard C....

The alien conspiracy theorists and cover-up-o-philes must have experienced a serious "WTF?" moment after the release a week ago of...

So our conspiracy theory of the day is: the US government is hiding living giant humanoids to create a race of hybrid super-soldiers. This...

In today's episode of You've Got Mail, I recently got an email that poses an interesting question.  Here's the relevant bit: ...

A couple of years ago, I went to visit my cousin's family in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and while in the state I insisted on making the dri...

Astrophysicists talk about the process of accretion , where microscopic particles of dust and ice stick together (largely through electrosta...

One of the questions you seldom hear asked, either of skeptics or of their counterparts, is, "What would it take to convince you that y...