Skeptophilia

This weekend, I stumbled upon one of those websites that is such a distilled bottle of crazy that I just have to tell you about it.  It invo...

I got an interesting email, undoubtedly prompted by one of my recent anti-Trump posts.  Here's the salient part: People like you calling...

Regular readers of Skeptophilia  -- and, heaven knows, my friends and family -- are well aware that one of my obsessions is the possibility ...

In H. P. Lovecraft's seminal horror short story "At the Mountains of Madness," some scientists are sent on an expedition to An...

Many of us here in the United States have been appalled and dismayed by the response some people are having to the recent double-whammy of H...

There's a strange tendency in some humans to want to stir things up -- if life is boring or mundane, to create a flurry of interest for ...

The oral tradition presents anthropologists and historians with a difficult, sometimes insurmountable, problem; given that by definition its...