Skeptophilia

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

In today's contribution from the "So Weird I Couldn't Possibly Make It Up" department, the owner of a magical tools store ...

It's been a good while since I've written a post about a story that's just plain loony. Maybe it's because here in the Uni...

Because it's always a losing bet to say the state of things in the United States couldn't get any weirder, today we have: a priest ...

Life isn't always smooth sailing, for me or for anyone else, but I'm thankful that I've never had to deal with a "duppy....

Today is my 57th birthday, which I bring up primarily because I look at that number and think, "How the hell could I be this old?"...

Is it too much to ask that people leave their bizarre mythology out of politics? I mean, our political situation at the moment is surreal ...

New from the "So Weird I Couldn't Possibly Make It Up" department, the owner of a magical tools store in England is refusing t...

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...

In the latest news from the Unparalleled Chutzpah department, we have a witch hunter from Nigeria who is suing the British Humanist Associat...

I find myself wondering, sometimes, how people can hear claims without the "Oh, come on , now" reaction kicking in. The thought...

I'm sure that most of you have heard of Boko Haram , the group of Nigerian extremist Muslim nutjobs who hate the secular west's cult...