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An inevitable side-effect of writing six times a week here at Skeptophilia is that I get some weird gifts sometimes. This explains why I am...

When I was in college I went through a period of messing around with Tarot cards.  They were cool-looking, and the book I got that explained...

Frequently, when I'm asked why I'm opposed to science teachers being required to teach "alternate explanations" along with...

It must come as a shock to woo-woos to find out that some of their favorite wooful phenomena were actually invented by humans for purely dow...

When I was about twenty, I stumbled upon the book The Dancing Wu-Li Masters by Gary Zukav.  The book provides a non-mathematical introducti...

What amazes me about so many crazy claims is that you get the impression that the people making them didn't even try to find a natural e...

A friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link to a YouTube video for my facepalming pleasure a couple of days ago, and being a g...

When I was in eleventh grade, I took a semester-long class called Introduction to Psychology.  The teacher was Dr. Loren Farmer -- I never f...

An inevitable side-effect of writing six times a week here at Skeptophilia  is that I get some weird gifts sometimes. This explains why ...

Yesterday, I received a mailing from The Omega Institute, of Rhinebeck, New York, suggesting that I might be interested in taking some of th...