Selling the Free Lunch

In recent decades crackpot inventors have focused on a variant of perpetual-motion machines known as free-energy devices or over-unity generators....

Whip’em with your own bible belt!

Millions of such Bibles are published and distributed each year by believers in their tireless and tiresome effort to propagate their beliefs...Among these Bibles will be found many different versions, but all have one thing in common: all are believer- friendly editions that support, promote, and defend the Bible. The Skeptic's Annotated Bible attempts to remedy this imbalance.

Hazards of Psychic Detectives

Psychic Detectives are the vanguard of a second wave of predators that also includes tabloid journalists, cheesy defense lawyers and...

Shit happens

A reader recently e-mailed me to say she believes in God because, when she was 14, she prayed one night that she would get her period and, the very next day, she did.

Robot seeks answer to pyramid mystery

A MYSTERIOUS passage in the Great Pyramid at Giza will be explored by a robot next month in an attempt...

Gotcha!

...but I was trapped in a sea of believers, and having paid $78.50 of U.S. News's money for my seat in the Atlantic City Convention Center auditorium, I didn't dare attempt an escape.

DangerousIdeas.net

Superstitious beliefs and paranormal thinking easily lead to poor decision making, needlessly living in imaginary fears, and mass hysteria when these beliefs are held by groups.

Skulls Challenge Theories of Human Origins

Two ancient skulls, one from central Africa and the other from the Black Sea republic of Georgia, have shaken the...

John the Baptist Found!!!

A colorful University of Hartford archaeologist ignited an international debate Thursday when he claimed he had discovered a 2,000-year-old skeleton...

Cereal spin doctors

On April Fool’s Day four years ago, Joe Nickell issued his skeptics’ Top 10 list of the world’s hardiest paranormal...