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A point I've made before is that if you are trying to convince people about some oddball belief you may subscribe to, your credibility i...

A good many of the topics I discuss on Skeptophilia are serious, and more than a few are (or should be) rage-inducing. There are times when...

Sometimes I'm asked why I am so determined to post daily on this blog. Just last week, a friend and loyal reader of Skeptophilia wrot...

This week was rife with religious stories.  First, we had the Catholics arguing over whether or not Pope Francis did a public exorcism of a ...

As I've mentioned before, I tend to avoid purely political topics, both in Skeptophilia and also in face-to-face discussion.  I simply ...

Whenever I think that the battle over teaching creationism in the public schools can't get any more bizarre, it does. The smarter anti...

New from the "I Wish I Were Kidding" department, today we have a story that as much as $37.5 million in taxpayer-funded rebates co...