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A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link to a post that appeared a couple of weeks ago over at the blog Future and Cosmos ...

Coming from the Wishful Thinking department, today we have a woman in Murrysville, Pennsylvania who claims she is the Virgin Mary's firs...

A few years ago, I wrote a piece in Skeptophilia  about people who claim they're channeling the spirits of dead musicians, writers, and ...

It's understandable how much we cling to the hope that there's life after death.  Ceasing to exist is certainly not a comforting pro...

Think you can communicate with the spirits of the dead? Well, you now have a chance to prove it. Norwegian Rolf Erik Eikerno was diagno...

I swear, sometimes humans are so weird that it leaves me not knowing what to think. Take, for example, the Red Deer Regional Hospital Cent...

This week I ran into a couple of claims of a type I'd never heard of before -- and considering how long I've been in the game of ana...

One of the most important, and least considered, questions about belief is, "What would it take to convince you that you were wrong?...

In the latest from the Wishful Thinking department, we have a woman in Murrysville, Pennsylvania who claims she is the Virgin Mary's fir...

One thing you have to admire about woo-woos is their persistence. The "spirit mediums," especially.  They just never seem to giv...

What do you do if you get tired of those nasty old scientists insisting that your woo-woo claims pass the test of hard evidence? You move ...

It's been a month of mixed news in the psychic world.  First, we had news that the Texas psychic who said that there was a mass grave on...

A fascinating study has just been published by scientists working at the University of Pennsylvania.  The methodology and results are descri...

Today's post is a question with no answer provided: If an alleged psychic, or medium, or someone of that ilk brings healing and closure ...