Skeptophilia

Recently we've dealt with such deep topics as quantum mechanics, the origins of the universe, archaeology, and evolutionary biology, not...

When you think about it, it's unsurprising that our ancestors invented "the gods" as an explanation for anything they didn...

Never say "How much weirder can things get?" Ordinarily I'm the least superstitious person in the room, but I make an excepti...

Regular readers of this blog know that besides my obvious hat of Skepticism Blogger, I also wear a second one, which is Fiction Writer.  And...

There's an odd claim circulating social media these days.  This is the form of it I've seen most frequently: First, just to get this...

One of the difficulties with establishing paranormal claims is that there are so many ways of getting the wrong answer. There are the inevit...

As a diversion from less cheerful subjects like what is currently happening in politics in the United States, today we will consider: the Ga...

So once again, a member of the extreme evangelical fringe of Christianity has launched a campaign against our taking pleasure in something w...

A few days ago, I had a perfectly dreadful day. The events varied from the truly tragic (receiving news that a former student had died) to t...