Skeptophilia

In the Star Trek episode "The Savage Curtain," the intrepid crew of the Enterprise  visit the planet Excalbia.  I forget why, bec...

I've long been fascinated by the phenomenon of priming , where our interpretation of a sensory stimulus is altered by what we expected t...

I picked up a copy of John Julius Norwich's A Short History of Byzantium  (at almost four hundred pages, it's only short by comparis...

As I've said many times before: I'm not saying that the paranormal is impossible.  I would really like it, however, if people would ...

One of the most intriguing sets of life forms I've ever heard of is the Ediacaran Assemblage . It dates from the late Precambrian Era --...

I recently joined Substack (I encourage you to check it out and subscribe if you like -- my focus there is different than here at Skeptophi...

In 2021, University of Washington astronomer Anastasios (Andy) Tsanidakis was reviewing data collected by the European Space Agency's Ga...