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Scotland Mysteries—Part II: Ghosts, Fairies, and Witches
Joe Nickell continues his investigation of Scottish enigmas—based in part on his excursion following the 2012 skeptics QED conference in England, with intrepid skeptical investigator Hayley Stevens...
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Moonacy
When the police began the booking process the handcuffed man blamed everything on a mosquito. The bloodsucker landed on his arm and he went berserk. The obvious change in gravity changed an otherwise...
View ArticleIs Marijuana Medical? Part One: How I Got a Cannabis Prescription from a Porn...
I’m in the noisiest lobby of all time. It’s practically barren, with two chairs, a coffee table slathered in business cards, and a tiny window to the receptionist. When I wave hello at her, she seems...
View ArticleRecent Miracles You May Have Missed
Resurrection In January 2000, a subspecies of wild mountain goat called the Pyrenean ibex became extinct. Its last living member was crushed to death by a fallen tree, and that was the end of the...
View ArticleIs Marijuana Medical? Part Two: My First Time
When I get my first bag of marijuana home, I have no idea what to do with it. Unlike most medicine, cannabis doesn’t come in a “dosage” so much as in “servings.” I have opted not to smoke the stuff,...
View ArticleNope, It Was Always Already Wrong
Recently, the claim that the phrase “conspiracy theory” was popularized in the 1960s by the CIA to discredit those who dared to question the Warren Commission has been popping up in the...
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New Information Surfaces on ‘World’s Best Lake Monster Photo,’ Raising Questions
The famous “Mansi photo” of the Lake Champlain monster has been held up for decades as strong proof for cryptozoology—the so-called best evidence for the existence of a hidden animal. Yet, newly...
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A Million Poisoning Planes
The contrails of a four-engined jet, over London, England by Arpingstone The largest fleet of aircraft the world has ever seen was created to poison it. Millions of planes criss-cross the skies,...
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Guerrilla Skepticism Visits the Center for Inquiry
Wikipedia has become the default initial source of research for many students, teachers and the general public who want answers. It's important and becoming more important daily. Editing Wikipedia is...
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Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
What causes the startling, unbidden perception of something that seems very real but has no material existence outside of our own minds? The “poet-laureate of medicine,” Oliver Sacks, takes us through...
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Los tontos útiles del Área 51
Algunos ufólogos llevan décadas acusándonos a los escépticos de estar pagados por los servicios de inteligencia para ocultar la realidad sobre el fenómeno ovni. Como otros colegas antes y ahora, he...
View ArticleUFO research is up in the air: Can it be scientific?
A few months back, a British anomaly investigation organization announced the possible death of UFOlogy. They admitted that failure to provide proof that UFOs were extraterrestrial craft and a decline...
View ArticleValuing Science with Differing Values: Let’s Broaden the Debate in the...
In light of recent debates in our pages about certain political aspects of skepticism, we invited this commentary from a libertarian and skeptic.—Editor What do you do when your heart says one thing...
View ArticleThe Ketchum Project: What to Believe about Bigfoot DNA ‘Science’
On November 24, DNA Diagnostics, a veterinary laboratory headed by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum, issued a press release1 that rocked the cryptozoological world: A team of scientists can verify that their...
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Can a Brain Scan Tell You if Your Husband Loves You?
How Being in Love Made My Skin Look Great There are pictures of me in a chair shaped like a hand. They were taken at an occult bookstore, which I had visited on a story. I wanted to know what kinds of...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Rain Dance
There are many myths and misconceptions found in every culture around the world. Some are more fanciful and colorful than others. There are stories concerning life’s more serious issues and of course...
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Billions and Billions of Planets and Stars, Twelve Personalities
A birthday horoscope by Morag Riddell You are not special, the stars and planets decided that at your birth. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake, as Tyler Durden might say. In fact, all your...
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Three Days of Science and Skepticism in Stockholm
It awards the Nobel Prizes in science and proudly portrays not a political figure but one of its most eminent scientists, botanist Carl von Linné (1707–1778), better known to the world as Linnaeus,...
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Blowfish Hangover Remedy: Scam or Savior?
It might have been when Ross threw up on my living room floor that I second-guessed our plan. We were going to down a few shots, wait an hour for it to kick in, and then record our podcast, tipsy, and...
View ArticleMessages from ‘Star Families’—in the ET Language
Cassandra Vanzant calls herself an “extraterrestrial communicator,” among other things. I appeared with her on CBS’s Anderson, hosted by journalist Anderson Cooper. (The show aired on April 24, 2012.)...
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