Skeptophilia

"What does it all mean?" It's a question you hear posed an awful lot.  The search for meaning is behind most of the world...

Today at Worldwide Wacko Watch we're keeping a close eye on three developing stories.  At least I am.  My research team, made up of my d...

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...

Some of the things I run into, while doing research for this blog, are simply baffling. Okay, a lot of them are baffling.  But at least f...

There's a saying that has been repeated often enough that it is nearly a cliché, and that is: Be careful what you wish for, you may get ...

Despite my claims of being a hard-headed rationalist, I have to admit to being fascinated by a mystery.  There is simply something intriguin...

A couple of days ago, I speculated that woo-woo beliefs stem primarily from three human psychological causes: (1) wishful thinking, (2) para...