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For today's topic I owe a hat tip to my friends over at the Society for Psychical Research .  The SPR is a group of people interested (a...

A lot of what you hear talked about under the heading of "religious freedom" seems to me to boil down to "reasonable expectat...

I can't remember when I've ever been this worried about our capacity for seriously fucking up the world we live in. Strong words, ...

You would think that after this many years of writing Skeptophilia , I'd be completely inured to weird ideas, that nothing would shock m...

If you are of the opinion that more evidence is necessary for demonstrating the correctness of the evolutionary model, I give you: a paper b...

This past weekend my wife and I put up our Christmas tree.  It's always a special moment for me -- we have ornaments collected from year...

A question I get asked a lot is why, here in Skeptophilia , I take time away from serious matters to look at the lunatic fringe, as I did ye...