Skeptophilia

Hard as it is to believe, we're over halfway through 2025.  On the one hand, it seems like it's flown.  On the other, any amount of ...

I've wondered for years why people fall for conspiracy theories. My surmise -- and admittedly, that's all it is -- is that when bad ...

I know it's been a tough year.  The pandemic, the final year of King Donald the Demented's reign, the fractious election and its aft...

Here I was, thinking that the stupidest thing I'd hear all day was that windmills cause cancer and that the way to stop hurricanes is to...

My younger son, who shares my interest in investigating wacky beliefs, sent me a perplexing email a couple of days ago. "Look up ...

So San Francisco made it through yesterday without being obliterated.  I'm pleased about that, because San Francisco is a great place an...

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but if you're a reader in the San Francisco area, you're doomed. Today, in fact. I know,...

I have it on good authority that the new pope, Francis I, is either a spy in league with extraterrestrials, or else is an emissary of the A...

Well, it's begun. I knew that as soon as Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, the wingnuts would have a field day with it.  An...