Skeptophilia

It's always entertaining when the woo-woos start running experiments or collecting actual data, because that moves the argument into the...

When Flat-Earthers ("Flerfs") talk to Oblate-Spheroid-Earthers ("Sane People"), usually the topic comes up of "what...

A famous skit from the early days of Saturday Night Live  had a stereotypical married couple (played by Dan Aykroyd and Gilda Radner) arguin...

At the time of this writing, I have been sent five times a link to a story about a Flat-Earther who wants to prove his case by taking a ride...

There's a saying in Senegal: "There are thirty different kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense."  I found an esp...

One statement that completely makes me crazy -- right up there with "evolution is only a theory" -- is "scientists have been...

Having steeped myself in All Things Woo-Woo for some years, you'd think I'd have it all figured out, at least with respect to why pe...

My younger son came for a visit this weekend, and predictably, our lunchtime conversation ventured out into the ether. We were talking abo...

Yesterday, we looked at how apparently it's impossible for some people to believe that a 79-year-old man in poor health could die in his...

A couple of days ago I did a post on a climate change denier who attempted to science and failed rather catastrophically by neglecting to co...