Category Archives: Skepticism

You have to give these guys credit for persistence, if nothing else. Two men who claim to have stumbled across a Bigfoot corpse in the woods of northern Georgia indignantly stood by their story at a news conference in Palo … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From the “Headlines That Write Themselves” Department last week: Lack of evidence stalls investigation of UFO sightings. Never would have seen that one coming! Whether a UFO visited two Central Texas towns will remain a mystery – at least for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As Kevin Drum says, this is yet another reason to hate the DMCA. Those of us who grew up in the 1970s probably remember a popular psychic named Uri Geller, who was always on TV back then, bending spoons with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Happy Fourth of July on behalf of myself and I’m sure Kuff as well. This week, my feed reader has been full of calls for impeachment and a general lack of patriotism. I know a lot of us have a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, I don’t know what this footage of something in Loch Ness shows, but until I see a huge red eye and a long sharp tooth, I’m not conceding anything. “I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw this jet … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You all know how I feel about claims regarding Bigfoot. Am I about to be proven wrong? When the foot turned up at the Spotsylvania County, Va., landfill, the first thought was that someone had committed a brutal crime. Deputies … Continue reading → Continue reading →

James Randi’s Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural is now available online. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about hokum and its hucksters, complete with Randi’s snarkery. Check it out. Via Jim Henley. Continue reading →

Anyone catch “Primetime Live” this past Wednesday, when they did an hourlong story on a so-called “faith healer” in Brazil called “John of God”? You want a non-political example of how our “bad not biased” media (tm, Greg Wythe) fails … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know, I’m not actually sure whether the new TV show about the psychic who fights crime will have a higher gobbledygook quotient than the new TV show about the mathematician who fights crime, but doesn’t it just give you … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This article about the IRS taking the fight to tax evaders contains one of the best bits of unintentional comedy you’ll see this year: Also last month, a federal court in Nevada held Irwin Schiff, a well-known promoter of what … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Good grief. I had no idea about this. Read it and be amazed. Continue reading →

Here’s a new variant on malevolent email that I at least haven’t seen before: Dear user of “Offthekuff.com” mailing system, Your e-mail account has been temporary disabled because of unauthorized access. Advanced details can be found in attached file. Have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The History Channel has asked three historians to review the credibility of a documentary that claims LBJ was behind the assassination of JFK. The History Channel aired the documentary, The Guilty Men, in November as one of several programs exploring … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When I first glanced at the headline of this Chron op-ed piece, which reads “Why should hospital district cover illegals?”, I figured it would be the standard-issue ignorant nativist rant, and I started to prepare some responses as I read … Continue reading → Continue reading →