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Ever heard of cocoliztli ? In one way, it's shocking if you haven't, and in another, hardly surprising at all, because the vast majo...

I'm fully in support of pure research, which should be obvious to anyone who is a regular reader of Skeptophilia .  But sometimes I run ...

Today in the "I've Seen This Movie, And It Didn't End Well" department, we have: scientists digging into glacial ice and f...

I have to admit to a morbid fascination with things that can kill you in nasty ways. Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, mass extinctions ...

When evaluating a claim, it's often as important to recognize which questions to ask as it is to understand the science behind the claim...

New from the Dangerous Nonsense department: there's a new alternative-medicine model out of Germany that claims that viruses and bacteri...