Skeptophilia

A few months ago, I wrote a post about a guy who claimed that all you need to do to purge your home of "negative energies" (whatev...

It is a frequent source of bafflement to me that so many people don't change what they do when confronted with incontrovertible evidence...

If there's one thing that could be a microcosm of the current administration, it was a short exchange yesterday between Rudy Giuliani an...

Thanks to a loyal reader of Skeptophilia , I now know that apparently there is a growing number of people who believe that water is not H2O....

I'm a pretty forgiving guy.  I recognize we all have failings, and heaven knows I've led a far from blameless life myself.  But ther...

About two and a half years ago, a team of researchers released a landmark paper entitled " On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Pro...

I don't know about you, but I'm confronted on a nearly daily basis with finding out that people have done things that seem entirely ...