The Crucifixion timeline forms a perfect cross on a modern clock when Jewish & Roman times are aligned. This alignment between the Crucifixion Timeline and the Time Clock is a strikingly precise match. The 3rd Hour (3) → 9:00 AM → Right Side of the Horizontal Beam According to Mark 15:25, Jesus was crucified at the 3rd hour. When the Crucifixion timeline is aligned onto the 12-hour time clock, the 3rd hour (Jewish time) corresponds to 9:00 AM (Roman time). This places 9:00 AM at the right...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Why is this a new issue? Historically, the prices of new drugs were largely unconstrained in their biggest market, the USA. The USA probably accounts for more than half of the worldwide profits in the drug industry. Prices in the USA have been far higher than in most other developed countries. Even vital drugs like Insulins often cost ten times their prices in typical European countries. US laws have prevented the biggest government schemes using their market power to negotiate prices or even...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Several sources claim that the concept of an ecological footprint or carbon footprint was invented by fossil fuel lobbyists to shift the responsibility for climate change from big oil to private consumers. For example, see this article on interestingengineering.com: But it turns out the concept of tracking your “carbon footprint”, a trendy way of measuring your personal impact on the environment, is a marketing term coined by an advertising firm on BP’s payroll. Sourcing this op-ed in T...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
A Reddit post on the Ukraine sub reddit which cites a Ukrainian news article claims: Repatriated soldiers’ bodies arrive to Ukraine with hidden grenades in their pockets All the comments on the post seem to agree that the interpretation of this is that Russian authorities are the ones who put the grenades/explosives on the bodies in order to harm the Ukrainians who would be receiving and preparing them for burial. From reading the original article with Google translate and this English arti...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
The Smithsonian website (Why the Octopus Brain is so Extraordinary) says: some scientists argue it could be the first intelligent being on the planet. They can complete puzzles, untie knots, open jars and toddler proof cases, and are expert escape artists from aquariums. livescience.com (Octopuses may be so terrifyingly smart because they share humans' genes for intelligence) calls them: terrifyingly smart I understand it is not very easy to define human intelligence either, but it is fair to...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
The Global Sumud Flotilla was a convoy of ships ostensibly sent to provide aid to Gaza/protest the Israeli blockade. It was intercepted by Israeli military last Thursday 2 October (Source), causing widespread outrage and protests. (Source) There are several social media posts claiming the flotilla carried essentially no aid. The videos also claim that the crew refused help to land at the port and to load and unload. @drawstickpeople on BlueSky Social posted: Looks like it was a nice ship that...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
James J. Kilroy is considered (on Wikipedia) as one of the best candidates for the origin of the phrase "Kilroy was Here". The relevant portion is here: One theory identifies James J. Kilroy (1902–1962), an American shipyard inspector, as the man behind the signature.[7] James Kilroy had served on the Boston City Council and represented the Roxbury district in the Massachusetts Legislature during the 1930s. He worked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy during the war checking the work of r...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
In this religious article, it is claimed that ayurveda believes that Ghosts cause sleep paralysis Sleep paralysis is a well-known phenomena. Yoga and ayurveda explain it as an attack of an aggressive ghost who tries to enter the body of a sleeping person (esp. one lying on one's back) while paralysing the pranas (life airs) which are part of the subtle body I doubt this claim that traditional ayurveda believes that ghosts causes sleep paralysis, because ayurveda is about medical treatments an...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Therapist Dr. Michael J. Salas has a website which makes the claim: 28.16% of adults claim to have at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI. Michael Salas, Artificial Romance: A Study of AI and Human Relationships, Vantage Point Counselling Service, 2025 There's multiple other related statistics along with a discussion on the webpage. The same page describes the methodology as: We surveyed 1,012 adults living in the United States about their interactions and relationships wit...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
As this article by the London School of Economics states, there is a "popular belief that marrying young leads to divorce." In support of this claim, the same article notes that: "Previous research from the USA has demonstrated consistent findings of a negative association between the age at first marriage and the risk of divorce, which researchers have similarly observed in urban China." However, the article is about a 2023 study (Garcia-Hombrados, J. and Özcan, B., 2023), which claims ther...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
According to the website Before It's News: With its smorgasbord of synthetic drugs, vaccines, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, Western medicine or allopathy has earned the dubious honor of killing hundreds of thousands of people every year. A 2000 study by Dr. Barbara Starfield, MD, found that allopathy kills 225,000 per year in the US, while a 2003 study by Dr. Gary Null, MD and others, found that allopathy kills 783,000 per year in the US. Is this a fair summary of the research?| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
From whitehouse.gov: The Department of Education burdens schools with regulations and paperwork. Its “Dear Colleague” letters have forced schools to redirect resources toward complying with ideological initiatives, which diverts staff time and attention away from schools’ primary role of teaching. Biden’s Department of Education added rules that imposed nearly $3.9 billion in costs and 4,239,530 paperwork hours. Did Biden’s Department of Education add rules that imposed 4,239,530 pa...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
In April 2024, the Times of Israel interviewed Haim Rubinstein, who had served for five months as the spokesman of Hostage and Missing Families Forum. After describing a meeting that took place on October 26, 2023 between Netanyahu and families of the victims of the October 7 attacks, Rubinstein states: “We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.” T...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
According to a October 7, 2023 Al-Jazeera article, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We will take mighty vengeance for this black day,” the Israeli leader said in a televised address. “We will take revenge for all the young people who lost their lives. We will target all of Hamas’s positions. We will turn Gaza into a deserted island. To the citizens of Gaza, I say. You must leave now. We will target each and every corner of the strip.” But a lot (in fact, all that I'v...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
The back cover of historian and scholar Theodore W. Allen's The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control quotes the late Mr. Allen When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no 'white' people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. The primary source in an interview "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Allen Part 1.mov (see also "The Invention of the White Race" by Theodore W. Al...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
From a NY Post article: Kit Maloney, the founder of O’actually, a feminist porn production company, said that “masturbation [and] orgasm is like meditation. It allows the space for the brain to quiet and that means you’ll be more focused and effective with your to-do list afterwards.” Now you can obviously dismiss it as not the claim of scientist, and I can see that it would be rather impossible to come up with "placebo mastubration" for a double blind study, but anyhow, is there a ke...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Elvis Presley and Don Simpson famously died going to the loo. However, both were heavy drug users, which was in both cases determined to have been the cause of death. However, this hasn't stopped the pop-culture memetic mutation making it sound like they died due to on-potty overexertion. Perhaps most famously, The Sopranos' episode He Is Risen involves a heart attack while pushing to poop. The TVTropes article Undignified Deaths includes a few more, and asserts that “hundreds of people die...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
There is a popular belief that startling a hiccuping person will cure their hiccups: This Straw Is Designed to Instantly Cure HiccupsLots of folks will try to scare hiccups away with a shock or surprise. Can a Scare Cure the Hiccups?The recent death of a Fort Hood U.S. Army soldier in Killeen, Texas, shows that a belief in the folk cure of scaring away hiccups can have tragic effects when taken to the extreme, but does the cure have any basis if administered within reason? 9 Unusual Cures For...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
I was reading a Batman comic where the Joker claimed: Do you know what triggered the last World War? An argument over how many telegraph poles Germany owed its war debt creditors! This piqued my interest, and I looked it up to see if there was any truth to it. Wikipedia - WW1 Reparations It has been argued by some[by whom?] that it is a fallacy to consider the reparations as the primary source of the economic condition in Germany from 1919 to 1939. This perspective argues that Germany paid a ...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
A recent Pew survey found: A majority of Americans (57%) say the higher education system in the United States fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend. Is a college education a good Return On Investment (ROI) for most Americans?| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
I have seen the claim that some sexual positions are better for getting pregnant than others. For example this article on how to have baby-making sex claims: Be a missionary It might seem like the boring way to get intimate, but the missionary position, with all that deep penetration close to your cervix, is going to give your partner’s sperm a little extra help in their swim for the egg! Staying behind Doing it doggy-style is guaranteed to get your partner’s sperm close to that all-impor...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Someone who "believes branches of the U.S government planned 9/11" said that: The passport of one of the terrorists was "found". How is it that this passport survived the crash, while nothing e...| Skeptics Stack Exchange
There are many conflicting accounts as to whether the Athenian statesman Alcibiades was a lover of Socrates. The Wikipedia page on Alcibiades' depiction in culture states: "Alcibiades also appears in several Socratic dialogues" In Plato's Symposium, Alcibiades "claims to be in love with Socrates." "Plato presents Alcibiades as a youthful student and lover of Socrates" The Wikipedia page on Socrates himself gives two conflicting pieces of evidence: "Some texts suggest that Socrates had love af...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
In this video with US Ambassador Tom Barrack, he states If you just look at the demographics, you're going to have by 2040/2045 10 billion people in the world; 5 billion Muslims. Is this projection correct?| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
I've seen some articles (CogniArchae.com, Facebook, X.com) featuring what appears to be a serpent-like entity allegedly depicted on a wall in the Altamira caves, as below: Yet I haven't found any official sounding catalogue numbers assigned to it, nor does it appear here: https://www.ancientartarchive.org/altamira-cave-spain/ That may not be the definitive end-all-be-all, but it is enough to concern me that it's not real. Is it authentic, and, if so, what is its proper catalogue number?| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
It is often remarked that Lord Byron (often regarded as one of "the greatest British poets") had an incestuous relationship with his half-sister Augusta Leigh (eg here). However, other sources appear to regard this as a myth (eg here). Until recently, I presumed that this was something which we had insufficient of to confirm or deny. However, while reading the Wikipedia page on Lord Byron, I saw the following line: The biographer of Byron André Maurois who had access to the poet's archive, r...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
The California Driver Handbook advises: When you park on a hill, your vehicle could roll due to equipment failure. Remember to set the parking brake and leave the vehicle in park, or in gear for manual transmission. To park: On a sloping driveway: Turn the wheels so the vehicle will not roll into the street, leave the vehicle in park and set the parking brake. Headed downhill: Turn your front wheels into the curb or right toward the side of the road. Headed uphill: Turn your front wheels away...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
While scrolling through twitter, I came across this image being shared around by certain right wing accounts, as well as forums and websites relating to eugenics. It makes the claim that populations of people from Africa are more genetically distinct from other ethnic groups than domestic dogs are from wolves and coyotes. The implication the people sharing this graphic seem to have made is that the data suggests that African people are a different species from other human ethnic groups. The r...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
One common trope in fiction over the decades has been someone putting a file in a cake—or other baked good—that then is passed onto someone in prison to help them escape. As the website TV Tropes explains: The stereotypical way to smuggle escape tools into a prison is by hiding them in a cake and giving them to the prisoner. Most often a nail file is hidden in the cake. Granted, most of the time I have seen this trope played out it was with a larger “rasp” file. But that minor quibble...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Is this actually a portrait of Buddha, drawn by one of his disciples? Here is a link saying: One of Buddha's disciple draw it secretly, while Buddha was teaching. Yes, Sakyamuni Buddha is Mongoloid race. The original photo stored in British museum. Gautama Buddha's real portrait at the age of 41| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
I often hear claims that some activities, nutrients, ... "boost" your immune system. My understanding of the immune system is that it is a finely tuned machine with enormous destructive power. If| Skeptics Stack Exchange
Is there evidence for a correlation between the use of mobile phones and the occurence of brain cancer? If yes, is there also evidence for causality?| Skeptics Stack Exchange
Dr. Gerald Schroeder published an article in Aish.com about the age of the Universe and the Jewish bible: So the only data I use as far as Biblical commentary goes is ancient commentary. That m...| Skeptics Stack Exchange
To my knowledge, the Vatican does not provide a public account of all the details of its finances. (The Institute for the Works of Religion does provide summaries of some financial information in| Skeptics Stack Exchange
Nick Turse (in a 2025 paper published by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University): The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than th...| Skeptics Stack Exchange
A Forbes article and the University of Melbourne, among other sources, claim “Only Two-Thirds Of American Millennials Believe The Earth Is Round”, which seems to imply that one third of American| Skeptics Stack Exchange
There have been a number of news articles and social media posts (see: here, here, and here) claiming that Pope Francis' personal net wealth, at the time of his death, was estimated at just $100 (w...| Skeptics Stack Exchange
