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In my last post, we looked at a wild story illustrating the general principle that once some crazy claim gets out there, it's damn near ...

After fifteen years of writing here at Skeptophilia , one thing that never fails to amaze me is how little it takes to get a crazy claim goi...

This week we've been dealing with some pretty heavy topics, so I thought today I'd lighten things up by telling you about a strange ...

To end the week on an appropriately surreal note: no, the Earth will not "lose its gravity" for seven seconds on August 12 . I fou...

Some time ago, I wrote a post about the (in)famous sort-of anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, author of bestsellers like The Teachings of Don...

There's a general rule that once a baseless claim is made, getting people to dis believe in it is nearly impossible. This is a pattern t...

The general rule is that you should always  try to rule out all the natural and normal explanations for something before you jump to a super...

Okay, can we all please please puhleeeeeez  stop posting stuff without checking to see if it's true? I know it's a pain in the ass, ...

Urban legends often have nebulous origins.  As author Jan Harold Brunvand describes in his wonderful book The Choking Doberman and Other Urb...