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You may recall that a few days ago, I posted about a company that sells beanies and boxer briefs designed to protect you from the supposed i...

Worried about aliens and/or the Illuminati and/or Bill Gates beaming secret subconscious orders directly into your brain?  Want to protect y...

In the latest from the False Sense Of Security department, we have guys' underwear that contains a mesh of tiny silver threads to prote...

One thing I've never understood is the determination of some people to believe in counterfactual nonsense despite rigorous evidence to ...

I remembering going to visit my parents during the Christmas season in the mid-1980s, and there was this new thing on the market for kids ca...

In the latest from the False Sense Of Security department, we have guys' underwear that contains a mesh of tiny silver threads to prote...

A clever, although questionably ethical, marketing technique is to create a problem in people's minds, and then sell them a solution to ...

A regular reader and frequent contributor to Skeptophilia commented recently, "Having done this blog for as long as you have...  I am ...

A while back there was a rumor circulating that using cellphones could give you brain cancer.  A study published in 2010, sponsored by the N...