Skeptophilia

In the course of writing Skeptophilia  for nearly fifteen years, I thought I'd run into every purveyor of woo out there. I was wrong. So...

I try to be tolerant of people's foibles, but one thing that annoys the absolute hell out of me is when someone is obviously ignorant of...

The frustrating thing about woo-woo ideas is that they never really go away permanently. Take, for example, the Ancient Aliens thing.  It re...

I know the universe can be a weird place sometimes, but... let's follow Carl Sagan's dictum of looking for a normal and natural expl...

I told myself that I wasn't going to do another political post so soon after Tuesday's, but dammit, my good intentions got blasted t...

Once or twice a week I volunteer to sort book donations for our local Friends of the Library biannual book sale.  This particular event, hel...

One of the fundamental principles of woo-woo-ism is never to let a popular idea die. You can refute them, you can debunk them, you can show ...

One of the problems with targeted-advertisement algorithms is that they're awfully good at picking up on words like "homeopathy...

Because apparently some ill-advised person uttered the dreaded words, "Well, things can't possibly get any weirder than they alread...