Rather than accept at face value claims that cybersecurity measures will make us safer and more secure, we need to ask for proof before we hand over our data.
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In a world of eight billion unique minds, what even is ‘neurotypical’, anyway?

Rather than attaching labels to each facet of neurodiversity, we could be identifying what support people need for their best chance of success.

‘Capturing Bigfoot’ may yet offer definitive proof that Bigfoot was nothing but a hoax

If the upcoming documentary 'Capturing Bigfoot' proves the famous Bigfoot footage was a hoax, it should put an end to belief in Bigfoot – but don't count on it.

The ancient alien legacy of the late pseudo-archaeologist, Erich Von Däniken

The death of Erich Von Däniken earlier this year leaves behind a pseudohistorical ancient-alien legacy tinged with its author's racist views.

From the archives: Cold Comfort for Cold Fusion 

From the archives in 1992, Malcolm Glasse reports on the bogus cold fusion claims of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann.

Are you sure that’s what they said? Down the rabbit hole of academic citations

Academic writers should always take care to check their citations – or they can find themselves repeating assertions based on a misread of a misread.

Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan

Podcaster Joe Rogan has spread 1980s-era AIDS denial rhetoric with disconcerting frequency, based on the discredited work of Prof Peter Duesberg.

Why aliens look like demons to US Vice President JD Vance

In expressing his belief that aliens are actually demonic in nature, JD Vance reveals the instincts of his political base are to fear the different and unknown.

From the archives: Notions of belief – Memes, metaphors, and Richard Dawkins

From the archives in 1992, Wendy Grossman is unconvinced by Richard Dawkins' version of religion is a memetic virus.

An anatomy of infamy: What constitutes “evil”?

Philosophers, theologians, psychologists and sociologists have tried for centuries to understand whether 'evil' exists, and how to identify it.

Richard Carlile – Science, Sex and Skepticism in 19th Century England

Somewhat forgotten in skeptical history, Richard Carlile may be the first identified atheist in print, having been tried for blasphemy for "The Age of Reason"

Doing (a Long) Time: sentence inflation and the prison crisis

Each high-profile crime produces calls for longer prison sentences - resulting in overcrowded prisons more and more full of men with no hope of release
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