Skeptophilia

One of the difficulties with establishing paranormal claims is that there are so many ways of getting the wrong answer. There are the inevit...

Can I beg scientists to please please puhleeeez stop giving names to scientific phenomena that induce the woo-woos to have multiple orgasms?...

Many of us engage in magical thinking -- attributing causal relationships between actions and events that are simply (often accidentally) c...

Yesterday I stumbled upon a post claiming that someone had programmed an artificial intelligence to cast magical spells, and that sent me do...

I've been interested in the occult since I was a teenager.  It started when I was about fifteen, on one of the annual trips with my dad ...

Some historical discoveries are in that gray area between evocative and frustrating as hell.  The evocative part because it gives us a glimp...

Combatting magical thinking can be an uphill battle, sometimes. Even as a diehard skeptic, I get where it comes from.  It can sometimes be a...

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...

In today's contribution from the "So Weird I Couldn't Possibly Make It Up" department, the owner of a magical tools store ...

There are few figures in the history of magical thinking more famous, or more polarizing, than Aleister Crowley . He was a member -- event...