Skeptophilia

I've been an avid birdwatcher for many years, and have been fortunate enough to travel to some amazingly cool places in search of avifau...

Since the discovery of the first exoplanet in January of 1992 , astronomers have identified over 5,500 of them, with nearly a thousand of th...

One of the things that has always struck me about woo-woo types is how little it takes to get them going.  I suppose when you've already...

It's a point I've made here more than once; if you're trying to convince someone of something, your argument is not  made strong...

It was over ten years ago that I ran into the bizarre claim that the Rh negative allele -- the gene that gives people type-negative blood --...

One of the problems that crops up in discussions of cryptids is that a lot of people consistently fall back on arguments based upon the numb...

New from the "It's Not A Sin When We Do It" department, we have: Christian Charismatics using a spin-off of the Ouija board to...