Skeptophilia

A while back I wrote about the rather terrifying idea of the "Great Filter" -- that life, especially sentient life, might be rare...

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me an email asking me what my opinion was about two current candidates for evidence of alien spacecraft...

One of the most persistent -- dare I say, canonical -- stories of alien abduction is the tale of Betty and Barney Hill . The gist of the sto...

There's a bias that's a bit like an inverted appeal to authority : anyone who repeatedly and stridently makes claims that prove to b...

If you needed more evidence that we're living in surreal times, some scientists have collaborated with the Tourism Board of Lexington, K...

It was over ten years ago that I ran into the bizarre claim that the Rh negative allele -- the gene that gives people type-negative blood --...

One of the most persistent -- dare I say, canonical -- stories of alien abduction is the tale of Betty and Barney Hill . The gist of the sto...

As silly as it can get sometimes, I am a dedicated Doctor Who fanatic. I'm late to the game -- I only watched my first-ever episode of...

As a followup to yesterday's post, about my generally dubious take on the claim of a Mexican scientist that he'd discovered fossiliz...