Nominations for the 2026 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
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The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think

Whether acting as a sycophantic friend or a rigorous agnostic, AI can't think for itself – but it can show a sophisticated understanding of us.

No lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s intellectual equal

While common retelling of the story paints Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as rivals, in truth they were intellectual equals.

From the archives: Cold fusion heats up

From the archives of May 1993, Chris Tinsley urges caution in writing off cold fusion experiments, before they had been proven to be a hoax.

Why does the political right still hate electric vehicles and dismiss green energy?

Electric vehicles and clean energy technology are real, current, and effective solutions - so why are the right wing still so opposed?

The seemingly impossible task of getting access to Ariel School’s ‘Impossible Archive’

After John Mack died, his archive of interviews concerning the Ariel UFO encounter was meant to be made available to the public - two decades later, we are still waiting.

The digital crawfish has you in its net: why your AI “Digital Employee” is a career trap

If AI speedily performs tasks that once were delegated to interns, junior employees lose the chance to gain vital knowledge and experience.

From the archives: Trial by television – being the token skeptic on a TV talk show

From the archives of May 1993, Wendy Grossman appears on Anglia Live to talk about ghosts, and meets the Grimsby Ghostbusters.

Extraordinary claims, modest evidence: reincarnation, and the limits of parapsychology

Ian Stevenson set out to scientifically investigate reports of reincarnation - while he failed to find any credible cases, his efforts warrant respect.

We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation

While the UK has moved to limit the harms of social media by restricting access for children, Facebook and Twitter continue to radicalise people of all ages.

From growing basil to curing disease, pseudoscientists find support in the Qur’an

While pseudoscience is not unique to Islam - nor more pervasive within the religion - it is important to challenge where the Qur’an is used to support clearly pseudoscientific ideas.

From the archives: In praise of stone circles – not for their psychic properties, but their human stories

From the archives of May 1993, Toby Howard fails to feel the "Earth energy" at the stone circle of Castlerigg near Keswick.
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