Skeptophilia

It's a phenomenon I've comment upon before; the mystifying fact that self-styled prophets, who claim to have a direct pipeline to go...

Those of you who are, like me, of the atheist persuasion will no doubt be thrilled to hear that we are already ramping up the War on Christm...

Before I run a race, I have to give myself a serious pep talk, because I'm the kind of person who always assumes the worst.  Although I...

It probably is readily apparent to anyone who is a regular reader of Skeptophilia  that I am frequently perplexed by the behavior of my fell...

In C. S. Lewis's wonderful fantasy story The Magician's Nephew , he says, "The trouble about making yourself stupider than you ...

Despite my daily perusal of the news and science sites for interesting topics, sometimes I miss stuff.  It's inevitable, of course, but ...

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece about the Mandela Effect , which is the idea that when you remember some major event differently than ...