Skeptophilia

New from the "They Needed A Grant To Figure This Out?" department, we have: a study showing that LGBTQ individuals who have underg...

Heard about the Irish UFO? I'd resisted posting about this one, because every single time I run into an article that says "TOTALL...

There are times that scientists use placeholder names for things they're pretty sure must exist, but haven't identified with suffici...

Just last night my wife and I watched the Dr. Who  episode " Vincent and the Doctor ," from 2010 (one of the episodes of the Eleve...

One of the most frustrating of logical fallacies is the No True Scotsman fallacy . It gets its name from an almost certainly apocryphal st...

I've always found Charles Bonnet syndrome  fascinating, and it's not just because the disorder was named after a scientist with whom...

A few years ago, I wrote a piece in Skeptophilia  about people who claim they're channeling the spirits of dead musicians, writers, and ...