Skeptophilia

Zealot (n.) - A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals. There's somethin...

Today we have a story from Newburgh, New York about the power of prayer, and the untoward results thereof.  [ Source ] David Jimenez, a de...

Regular readers may remember that a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an experiment being performed by psychologist Chris French and scienc...

"Well, I saw it.  I saw it with my own eyes." You hear that a lot, in claims of the paranormal.  I was just sitting there, in m...

It is not, perhaps, particularly insightful to state that Halloween is a weird holiday.  However, in this case I don't mean "weird...

Well, up here in lovely upstate New York we're about three-quarters of the way through the remnants of Hurricane Sandy, and we only lost...

Here I sit, having battened down the hatches in preparation for Hurricane Sandy (due to arrive in the wee hours tonight), and two things are...