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I was asked a curious question by a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , one that intrigued me enough I thought it was worth devoting an entire po...

I got an interesting email, undoubtedly prompted by one of my recent anti-Trump posts.  Here's the salient part: People like you calling...

A man I know is one of the most cynical people I've ever met. He said to me on more than one occasion, "I hate people."  Despi...

There's a reason skeptics have a problem with anecdotal evidence and eyewitness testimony. It's not that that it's impossible th...

I got a curious response to my post a couple of days ago, about magical and/or supernatural explanations not actually being explanations at ...

"All politicians are liars." "I don't trust anyone." "You have to watch your back constantly." "Nothi...

Despite my frequent railing against superstition and magical thinking, it's not that I don't see its attractions.  As a teenager and...

When the topic of the paranormal comes up, I'm sometimes asked how I can be so sure that (fill in the blank: ghosts, cryptids, psychic ...

It is the nature of the world that sometimes we have to look at all of the available evidence, and not come to a conclusion. It's temp...