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The difficulty with a lot of claims of psychic phenomena (besides the unfortunate lack of hard evidence) is that they kind of fall apart whe...

Today's post asks a question not because I'm trying to lead you toward a particular answer, but because I honestly don't know th...

It's important to keep your brain connected when you read articles in popular media that start with the line, "Scientists Have Just...

After a deep philosophical discussion, a friend once said to me, "You're only a skeptic because you don't have the balls to be ...

I just ran into an article over at Psychology Today  that I thought deserved a close examination. It's by Steve Taylor, senior lectur...

I got a "what do you think of this?" sort of email from a loyal reader of Skeptophilia  yesterday, along with a link to an article...

A couple of days ago, a reader of Skeptophilia  sent me a link to a website that has a compilation of research purporting to show reverse c...

It used to be that when I was accused (usually because I teach evolution) of "indoctrinating students into a secular, materialist, rati...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday we were in Northampton, Massachusetts visiting family, and we took the opportunity to visit an amazing used bo...