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Well, it was nice knowing you all. I have it on good authority that today is the Rapture, wherein Jesus reappears on Earth, selects a few of...

A while back, I wrote about the strange and disheartening research by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter , the upshot of w...

Seems like it's been a while since the world ended, you know? For a while, it seemed like the world was ending every couple of weeks o...

Several times here at Skeptophilia  headquarters we've made fun of people predicting the end of the world, be it from a collision with t...

Well, we survived the apocalypse, or at least the Nibiru-induced one that was supposed to happen two days ago.  Me, I had everything prepare...

The world is going to end again. This is what, two dozen times that the world has ended?  I've lost count, honestly.  But a success ra...

So it's December, which means it's time for Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Our Fellow Humans, and Death Asteroids. I'm not s...

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but we're all gonna die. Again. I mean, what is this?  This 452nd time this has happened, or...

It doesn't take much, unfortunately, to get the conspiracy theorists all shook up. Take the discovery a couple of weeks ago that for ...

Ever since the media started calling Comet ISON the "Comet of the Century," I was waiting for the woo-woo hoopla to start. There...

Dear Woo-Woos of the World, Ten days?  Ten days is all you could wait? You just couldn't bear to have a little more time go by befor...

Well, here we are, the day you've all been eagerly awaiting; December 21, 2012.  So far, nothing very apocalyptic has happened, as far a...

This morning I have a poem for you, Dear Readers.  See what you make of it. From the calm morning, the end will come; when of the dancin...

So apparently we don't already have enough nonsense being thrown about online regarding the End of the World, now the Tibetans have gott...