Climate Change

The Daily Mail guide to twisting the facts on vehicle emissions

Brian Eggo -
A recent study on vehicle emissions in London drove positive headlines in all, but the Daily Mail used all of their creativity to spin it into a political attack
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Paranormal

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Religion

Camp Quest UK returns, offering a secular space for families to explore

Alastair Lichten -
Camp Quest UK provides a freethinking niche for those who may not fit in traditional summer camps, to ask big, small and weird questions.
Technology

Putting things into perspective: the fallibility of expert drone spotters

Andrew Hyams -
Amid media panics around mysterious drones in the sky, researchers tested whether pilots could tell a nearby drone from a distant plane.
Archive

From the archives: Reason, Science and the New Demonology

Andrew Belsey -
From the archives in 1992, Andrew Belsey examines whether the revivial in belief in angels, demons and spirits is fundamentally unreasonable
Psychics

How did psychics fare with their predictions for 2025?

Michael Marshall -
Every new year, the media features predictions for psychics for the year ahead - and every year, those predictions underwhelm of fail.
Cryptozoology

Why I don’t believe in… Bigfoot

Blake Smith -
Bigfoot may be the most enduring pop culture cryptid, but its appeal owes more to folklore, hoaxes and the will to believe than any reliable evidence
Skepticism

In the face of AI-driven encyclopedias, cherish Wikipedia – and original sources

Hayley Stevens -
As Elon Musk continues to push his 'anti-woke' version of Wikipedia, we need to protect what's true, and question which sources we trust
Psychology

In a culture of materialism, The Emperor’s New Clothes have designer labels

Daniel Aaron Levy -
A materialistic online culture that prioritises possessions and wealth misses what truly makes us happy and fulfilled – prosocial behaviour
Archive

From the archives: Chapman Cohen – the Freethinker

Ean Wood -
From the archives in 1992, Ean Wood remembers Chapman Cohen, an iconoclast of the growing freethought movement
Conspiracy Theories

How word games and folk etymology feed into fringe beliefs

Mark Horne -
A common thread among pseudoscientists is to purport to tell you what words REALLY mean - except, they're almost always wrong
Religion

Encouraging non-belief and activism against witch hunts in black communities

Leo Igwe -
Leo Igwe, director of the Advocacy for Alleged Witches, reports from Black Nonbelievers Seacon 2025, on the work of encouraging non-belief in Nigeria
Health

Physiotherapy is almost as pseudoscientific as osteopathy and chiropractic

Paul Ingraham -
Many who rightly turn their nose up at chiropractic don't realise much of 'mainstream' physiotherapy is just as flimsy in its evidence base

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