Skeptophilia

You might have heard about people consuming pills of dried shark cartilage as nutritional supplements.  They're still widely available,...

As if we needed another thing to worry about, today we have: a time traveler from 2048 who has come back to tell us that next year the Eart...

I suppose you could say that everything I write here at Skeptophilia  has the same overarching theme; how to tell truth from falsehood, how ...

A new restaurant has opened up in the pricy Ginza neighborhood of Tokyo, and it specializes in broth and sushi made from fugu . For thos...

We've had psychic vampire repellent.  We've had people selling "raw water."  We've even had jade eggs that women are, ...

I'm sure you've heard about the placebo effect, but have you heard of the nocebo  effect? If you know a little Latin, you can gues...

After this week, I think we all need something to cheer us up, so today I'm going to tell you about: an eight-year old girl whose passio...