Skeptophilia

I think a lot of the problems I have come about because I've never really understood people. Yes, I know, I am  a people.  But that natu...

So far loyal readers of Skeptophilia  have sent me four different links to the same underlying story, along with a message along the lines o...

If you needed more evidence of how little it takes to get the woo-woos leaping about making excited squeaking noises, look no further than t...

It's awfully easy to get discouraged lately. The news seems to go from bad to worse every day.  Government corruption, terrorist attac...

I'm going to issue another plea to please please puhleeeezz  check your sources before posting stuff. This goes double for the viral m...

It's astonishing how little a skeptical, rational approach has insulated me from having a purely visceral reaction sometimes. I've...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  might recall that a few months ago I did a piece on "Dear David," a highly creepy child ghost th...

Neil deGrasse Tyson once quipped that photographic evidence was no longer reliable because Photoshop probably had an "Add UFO" but...

I ran across two stories yesterday that fall squarely into the "You People Do Realize You Have Bigger Problems To Worry About, Right?...

"Selfies" are all the rage these days.  Heaven knows why, because they're usually poorly composed and not in focus.  They also...