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Today's post comes to you from the Odd Bedfellows department. Okay, so all of you probably know all about the Harry Potter  series.  Kid...

I think we've all had moments when we were taken in by a prank or a hoax.  Some of them can be pretty clever, and after all, we're o...

I have a love-hate relationship with Poe's Law. Poe's Law , you probably know, is a rule of thumb named after Nathan Poe, who said i...

I think we've all had moments when we were taken in by a prank or a hoax.  Some of them can be pretty clever, and after all, we're o...

Twenty-six people are dead in yet another mass shooting , this one in a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, a small community 21 miles fro...

It's time to quote Voltaire again: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."...

I think we've all had moments when we were taken in by a prank or a hoax.  Some of them can be pretty clever, and after all, we're o...

Here at Skeptophilia  we've talked about "Poe's Law" -- the general rule that a sufficiently well-done satire is indisting...

It's not often that you get to witness the birth of a conspiracy theory. Most of the time, I suspect, they start out with someone spec...

Poe's Law has claimed another victim. Well, more than one.   Lots  more than one, to judge by Facebook and Twitter over the last coup...