Skeptophilia

Just about everyone has heard about the Roswell Incident , the 1947 discovery of military balloon debris near Roswell, New Mexico that gave ...

To start out with the tl:dr -- no, despite what you may have heard, physicists do not have a working model of a warp drive . Look, no one wo...

Some days, I wave the banner of critical thinking proudly and boldly, confident that we humans are capable of rational thought and decision-...

Okay, can we all please please puhleeeeeez  stop posting stuff without checking to see if it's true? I know it's a pain in the ass, ...

I grew up watching television shows like  Lost in Space  and  Star Trek , and the first movie I ever saw in the theater was 2001: A Space Od...

In the past few posts, we've dealt with issues like Siri predicting the Apocalypse, Noah's Ark has been found but the government is ...

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that we survived (1) the Rapture, (2) the Mayan apocalypse, and (3) the 2012 Christmas sho...