Skeptophilia

If you're wondering why the world seems to have lost its collective marbles lately, we now have an answer: The Reptilians who control ...

A Senegalese saying goes, "There are forty different kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." I got an object lesson...

The whole subject of "book reviews" has been much on my mind lately, because being (as well as a blogger) a fiction writer, with s...

That people believe all sorts of weird things without any hard evidence is so obvious as to barely merit saying.  What never fails to astou...

There's an odd tendency of conspiracy theorists to eat their young. Not literally, of course.  I wouldn't want that  to get out as...

Writing this blog sometimes puts me into very odd conversations. Witness what happened yesterday, an exchange between myself and a friend ...

One question I have for people who believe that there are powerful, invisible beings in control of the universe is why those beings don'...

When scientists this week at Lund University in Sweden confirmed the production of an atom of element 115 , I thought it was just a story th...

Yesterday's post, about the alien origins of humanity, generated a nice round of "you think that's a crazy belief, wait till y...

Well, Hugo Chávez is dead and buried.  This fact thrills the hell out of some people, who hated his bombastic style and anti-American rhetor...

Regular readers of this blog may remember that about a year ago, a student of mine attempted to kill me by sending me a video clip of an app...