Skeptophilia

A point I've made here more than once is that my doubting many claims of the paranormal isn't because I think it's necessarily i...

I've long been fascinated by the phenomenon of priming , where our interpretation of a sensory stimulus is altered by what we expected t...

A paper this week out of the University of Washington describes research suggesting that intelligence is positively correlated with the abi...

Any cat owners amongst my readers will undoubtedly know about the strange propensity of cats to climb into boxes.  Apparently it works for c...

One of the things I love about science is how it provides answers to questions that are so ordinary that few of us appreciate how strange th...

I was giving some thought this morning to why I've turned into such a diehard doubter of paranormal occurrences.  And I think one of the...

One of the beefs a lot of aficionados of the paranormal have with us skeptics has to do with a disagreement over the quality of evidence. Ta...

One of the most terrifying episodes The X Files  ever did was called "Folie à Deux."  In the opening scene, a man sees his boss no...

One of the first things I ever wrote about in this blog was the phenomenon of pareidolia -- because the human brain is wired to recognize f...

I have a fascination for optical illusions. Not only are they cool, they often point out some profound information about how we process sens...