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I have written daily on this blog for years now, and I still run into crazies that I haven't heard of before.  I guess this isn't th...

I try not to devote too much time to claims that are simply crazy.  After all, wacko claims are a dime a dozen, and some of the delusional f...

Apparently a new strategy amongst the severely religious is to send out broadside literature through the mail. I know this because a friend...

Several times here at Skeptophilia  headquarters we've made fun of people predicting the end of the world, be it from a collision with t...

Sometimes, and I say this with all due affection, my fellow humans scare the absolute shit out of me. This comes up because of a story I r...

A couple of days ago, televangelist Jim Bakker announced that he has it on good authority that god will smite anyone who makes fun of him . ...

I have written daily on this blog for years now, and I still  run into crazies that I haven't heard of before.  I guess this isn't t...

Illustrating the general principle that loopy ideas are not restricted to one religion, race, or ethnicity, today we have: a rabbi who claim...

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy  is the practice of picking out the data points, after the fact, that support whatever your claim is.  The na...

New from the "Oh, No, Here We Go Again" department, today we have: people flipping out over the fact that we're going to have ...

It's a phenomenon I've comment upon before; the mystifying fact that self-styled prophets, who claim to have a direct pipeline to go...

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we're all gonna die. Sorry if that's kind of a downer of a way to start your morning.  Bu...