Skeptophilia

Some years ago, as part of the research I did while writing my novel Sephirot , I purchased a copy of Richard Cavendish's book The Black...

If you were wondering why the Trump administration has turned out to be a slow-moving train wreck, it's not because the American people ...

As an example of the general principle that there is nothing that is so weird that someone can't respond to it in such a way as to make ...

Most of you probably know the name of Martin Shkreli , the pharmaceuticals executive who became notorious for raising the price of an anti-H...

My lack of technological expertise is fairly legendary in the school where I work.  When I moved  this year into a classroom with a "Sm...

Yesterday I got a spam reply on one of my old Skeptophilia  posts. It happens pretty often, and I usually just ignore them, being that (1...

One of the coolest things about writing Skeptophilia has been the connections I've made with other skeptics.  The friendly comments, an...

In what can only be called a puzzling move, online clearinghouse eBay has announced that they will no longer allow selling of "paranorm...