Skeptophilia

One of the many things that baffles me about my fellow humans is how hard it is for people to say, "Well, I guess I was wrong, then....

New from the "It's Not A Sin When We Do It" department, we have: Christian Charismatics using a spin-off of the Ouija board to...

One of the first things I ever wrote about in this blog was the phenomenon of pareidolia -- because the human brain is wired to recognize f...

Yesterday, I was driving home from work, and was listening to Symphony Hall, the classical music station on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio, and t...

One of the first things I ever wrote about in this blog was the phenomenon of  pareidolia  -- because the human brain is wired to recognize ...

You would think that after this many years of writing Skeptophilia , I'd be completely inured to weird ideas, that nothing would shock m...

The one thing you should never say is "Now I've heard it all." Especially if, like me, you are an aficionado of woo-woo. If ...

Okay, I'm willing to admit that I take a fairly prosaic, practical view of the world at times. That's not to say that I can't ...

There's a Reincarnation Conference at the end of this month in Scottsdale, Arizona, and I can't go. Of course, tickets are $225 a...

Back in 2012, the spells-and-charms crowd got their knickers in a twist over a decision by eBay to discontinue the selling of "paranorm...

Yesterday, I was driving home from work, and was listening to Symphony Hall, the classical music station on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio, and t...