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Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance
Edzard Ernst
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4th June 2021
Alternative Medicine
“Fake Medicine”: Dr Brad McKay skilfully takes apart health advice from Dr Google
Edzard Ernst
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21st May 2021
Alternative Medicine
What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery
David Weinberg
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7th May 2021
Alternative Medicine
Brazil’s bogus “Covid kit” represents a failure of private healthcare regulation
Natália Pasternak
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26th April 2021
Alternative Medicine
Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion
Chris French
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21st April 2021
Alternative Medicine
How alternative medicine radicalises believers into Qanon conspiracy theories
Dave Hahn
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14th April 2021
Alternative Medicine
Should we be skeptical of homeopathy research conducted in India? A look at the evidence
Edzard Ernst
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12th April 2021
Acupuncture
New NICE guidelines on chronic pain fall woefully short – and not just because of the acupuncture
Alice Howarth
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9th April 2021
Alternative Medicine
Integrative medicine: Mixing cow pie with apple pie
Edzard Ernst
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12th March 2021
Alternative Medicine
When it comes to our health, doing nothing is often better than doing something wrong
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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19th February 2021
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Erectile difficulties? The P-Shot injection into your penis is not the solution you’re looking for
Alice Howarth
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21st June 2021
Covid-19
How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific
Danny Bradley
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11th June 2021
Covid-19
Brazil’s COVID-19 inquiry puts pseudoscience on trial
Natália Pasternak
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9th June 2021
Chemtrails
From chemtrails to COVID-19, Naomi Wolf’s prolific promotion of pseudoscience
Mark Horne
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7th June 2021
Covid-19
Young people in Singapore may be vaccine hesitant, but we’ll get vaccinated to protect others
Mathilda Ng
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3rd June 2021
Covid-19
Making vaccines convenient and accessible helps minimise the impact of vaccine hesitancy
Wendy M. Grossman
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31st May 2021
Covid-19
If we’re going to convince the vaccine hesitant, we need to tackle conspiratorial thinking
Dave Hahn
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26th May 2021
Health
Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is absolutely not the ‘third leading cause of death’
Michael Marshall
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12th May 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience
Mark Horne
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5th May 2021
Dentistry
Not all dentists promote evidence-based treatments – four red-flag signs to look out for
Shaun Sellars
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3rd May 2021
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When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
Nagesh Rajopadhye
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18th June 2021
Ghosts
The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
Deborah Hyde
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24th May 2021
History
Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
Matt Mills
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10th May 2021
Cryptozoology
What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?
David Mountain
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23rd April 2021
Hilary Evans Paranormal Library
‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman
Deborah Hyde
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9th April 2021
Psychics
Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?
Chris French
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11th March 2021
Ancient Aliens
Blackpool’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ park is built on racist assumptions about the past
Mark Horne
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24th February 2021
QAnon
When predictions fail: UFO cults, QAnon and cognitive dissonance
Chris French
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3rd February 2021
Covid-19
Pandemic prediction problems: meet the psychics who claim to have predicted COVID-19
Brian Eggo
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21st January 2021
Alternative Medicine
Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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15th January 2021
Conspiracy
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9/11
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BTS = Bow to Satan? How Satanic, Illuminati conspiracies travelled from West to East
Marnell Esmilla
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17th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The continuation of QAnon: the eternal sunshine of an election that never ended
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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16th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Talking with believers helps us understand the emotional appeal of conspiracy theories
Kang Le Yeo
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10th June 2021
Chemtrails
From chemtrails to COVID-19, Naomi Wolf’s prolific promotion of pseudoscience
Mark Horne
-
7th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The Great Reset: political pipe dream, or sinister New World Order plot?
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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14th May 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience
Mark Horne
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5th May 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Our guide to the pseudoscience promoters aiming to be the next mayor of London
Michael Marshall
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30th April 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Bill Cooper: the conspiracy theorist who links afrofuturist “Hoteps” with Alex Jones
Aaron Rabinowitz
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28th April 2021
Conspiracy Theories
‘Legal Name Fraud’ – The Truth? It’s hogwash
Geoff Whelan
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16th April 2021
Alternative Medicine
How alternative medicine radicalises believers into Qanon conspiracy theories
Dave Hahn
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14th April 2021
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When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
Nagesh Rajopadhye
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18th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The continuation of QAnon: the eternal sunshine of an election that never ended
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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16th June 2021
Media
Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
Sarah Hearne
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14th June 2021
Politics
The American Culture War: Coming soon to a politics near you
Aaron Rabinowitz
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2nd June 2021
Science
Recovering memories: How the Satanic Panic led to false reports of horrific abuse
Chris French
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28th May 2021
Science
Falsification: Karl Popper’s guide to telling real science from pseudoscience
Jonny Thomson
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19th May 2021
Science
Coping with Death: Why the 5 stages of grief don’t tell the whole story
Sarah Hearne
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17th May 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The Great Reset: political pipe dream, or sinister New World Order plot?
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
-
14th May 2021
Health
Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is absolutely not the ‘third leading cause of death’
Michael Marshall
-
12th May 2021
History
Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
Matt Mills
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10th May 2021
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Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
Sarah Hearne
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14th June 2021
Science
Recovering memories: How the Satanic Panic led to false reports of horrific abuse
Chris French
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28th May 2021
Science
Falsification: Karl Popper’s guide to telling real science from pseudoscience
Jonny Thomson
-
19th May 2021
Science
Coping with Death: Why the 5 stages of grief don’t tell the whole story
Sarah Hearne
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17th May 2021
Alternative Medicine
Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion
Chris French
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21st April 2021
Science
University of Liverpool’s proposed redundancies raise serious red flags for academia
Alice Howarth
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7th April 2021
Science
The ‘scientist as lone genius’ is a myth that obscures real stories of scientific discovery
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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26th March 2021
Science
Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white
Sarah Hearne
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22nd March 2021
Health
10 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease
Alice Howarth
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26th February 2021
Science
Toxoplasmosis: how worried should we be about the ‘mind-control parasite’ spread by cats?
Lydia Hemus
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12th February 2021
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Erectile difficulties? The P-Shot injection into your penis is not the solution you’re looking for
Alice Howarth
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21st June 2021
The £1,200 P-Shot promises to end erectile dysfunction, but it's better to ditch the needle and instead have an honest, open conversation
Astrology
When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
Nagesh Rajopadhye
-
18th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
BTS = Bow to Satan? How Satanic, Illuminati conspiracies travelled from West to East
Marnell Esmilla
-
17th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The continuation of QAnon: the eternal sunshine of an election that never ended
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
-
16th June 2021
Featured
Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
14th June 2021
How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific
11th June 2021
Society
When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
18th June 2021
The continuation of QAnon: the eternal sunshine of an election that never ended
16th June 2021
Paranormal
When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
18th June 2021
The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
24th May 2021
Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
10th May 2021
What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?
23rd April 2021
‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman
9th April 2021
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Media
Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
Sarah Hearne
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14th June 2021
Seaspiracy is just the latest example of a documentary using style and glossy production to hide the fact that it's peddling misinformation
Covid-19
How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific
Danny Bradley
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11th June 2021
Even the most robust arguments of the so-called 'Lockdown Sceptics' rely on quoting selectively from the studies they reference
Conspiracy Theories
Talking with believers helps us understand the emotional appeal of conspiracy theories
Kang Le Yeo
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10th June 2021
When tragedy struck in Agnes' life, her interest in conspiracy theories grew, and gave her something to hold onto and believe in
Covid-19
Brazil’s COVID-19 inquiry puts pseudoscience on trial
Natália Pasternak
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9th June 2021
The COVID-19 inquiry in Brazil is an opportunity to understand what went wrong and what can be learned - it is one we can't afford to pass up
Chemtrails
From chemtrails to COVID-19, Naomi Wolf’s prolific promotion of pseudoscience
Mark Horne
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7th June 2021
Over the years, author Naomi Wolf has spread all manner of misinformation - from misleading statistics to chemtrails and COVID-19 conspiracy theories
Alternative Medicine
Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance
Edzard Ernst
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4th June 2021
Conditions that clear without antibiotics aren't proof that homeopathy works, but that some infections can clear up on their own
Alternative Medicine
Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance
4th June 2021
“Fake Medicine”: Dr Brad McKay skilfully takes apart health advice from Dr Google
21st May 2021
What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery
7th May 2021
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Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
14th June 2021
Recovering memories: How the Satanic Panic led to false reports of horrific abuse
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