Skeptophilia

My question today is one that haunts many skeptics -- how would you know if a bizarre claim is actually true, especially in the absence of e...

One of the many things that baffles me about my fellow humans is how hard it is for people to say, "Well, I guess I was wrong, then....

I get a lot of negative comments. It comes with the territory, I suppose, and I knew when I started writing this blog fourteen years ago tha...

A paper appeared last week in the Journal of Zoology  that has elicited a good bit of self-satisfied chortling amongst the people who think ...

One of the problems that crops up in discussions of cryptids is that a lot of people consistently fall back on arguments based upon the numb...

Dear Readers, I will be taking a short break -- this will be my last post until Thursday, April 27.  Please keep suggesting topics, though! ...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said (apropos of UFO sightings), "The human brain and perceptual systems are rife with ways of getti...

One thing I find to be somewhere between amusing and maddening is the length to which people will go to hang on to their cherished notions. ...

A regular reader of my blog commented to me, rather offhand, "To read your posts, you sound awfully sure of yourself.  A little arrogan...

When I was little, I had a near-obsession with figuring out whether things were real. I remember pestering my mom over and over, because I f...