In a move sure to frustrate ufologists and conspiracy theorists, NASA says that UFOs are almost certainly not aliens.

Organized skepticism was once covered in every major publication around the world. Why did it seemingly vanish overnight? And what damage did its implosion leave behind?

An astronomer who keeps making wild claims about alien technology in our solar system now claims there are parts of an alien spaceship in the Pacific Ocean.

Today's media is addicted to contrarian takes on everything. And those takes are almost always just attention-grabbing clickbait.

We often think anti-intellectualism and ignorance are the same thing. They're not. Anti-intellectualism is a lot eviler and more corrosive, and a lot more dangerous.

Skeptical groups were poised to bring science and critical thinking to the masses. They failed in their mission. But did they ever really have a chance to succeed?

Thanks to social media, everybody can be a pundit today, and that's ruining how we build a factual understanding of our world and what's happening in it.

For some inexplicable reason, Google funded an experiment to test whether cold fusion is possible. It's not and can't be unless everything we know about physics is wrong.

Both Finland and the United States have a serious fake news problem, but only one of them has been successful in tacking it. How this played out is both instructive and disturbing

Perhaps the worst thing about Theranos is not the lies, the fraud, or the failure. It's that the company and its portable lab could have been salvaged and improved lives if its CEO didn't drown in her own hype.

An Indian science conference espoused the superiority of Hindu religion and legends over actual facts and history. And it's just a small part of an alarming and accelerating trend...

Pizzagaters and Flat Earthers were bound to share adherents by the rules of crank magnetism. That doesn't mean they're happy about it.

Skeptical blogger Marlon Solomon lays out a persuasive case that we missed a toxic neo-Nazi ideology hiding under Icke's veneer of immortal alien reptilians.

A new experiment shows that ridicule as almost as effective as debunking when it comes to dissuading people from falling for conspiracy theories.

We've made it easy and virtually consequence-free to be ignorant of history and science. Now we're paying the price for coddling intellectual sloth.