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Featuring articles from Chris French (January 2021), Jonathan Jarry (January 2024), Carlos Orsi and Natália Pasternak (January 2021), Sean Slater (March 2024)

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #006

The Skeptic Podcast - 4th April 2025

Featuring articles by Sean Slater, (November 2020), Mark Horne & Matt Kemp (November 2020), Brian Eggo (August 2024), and Chris French (October 2020).

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 077

The Skeptic Podcast - 14th August 2026

Featuring articles from Brian Eggo (September 2020), Robyn Lowe (April 2022), Aaron Rabinowitz (February 2022), and Alice Howarth (May 2022).

Cryptozoology

A skeptical perspective on the Scottish UFO and Paranormal Conference 2023

Brian Eggo - 13th December 2023

Earlier this year, Glasgow hosted the Scottish UFO and Paranormal Conference, with speakers spreading all manner of baseless and unevidenced paranormal speculation.

Skepticism

Five persistent “Zombie Facts” that should be allowed to finally die

Sean Slater - 25th February 2026

'Zombie facts' are myths, ideas and factoids that continue to spread long after they have been comprehensively debunked.

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Causality: how to prove it scientifically, and why it matters

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

Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth

Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist

The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal

Get a longer little doggy: can we really double our dog’s lifespan?

The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK

Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth

Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation

Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information

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

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

The underwhelming reality of the White House’s own ‘Disclosure Day’

Identifying the mysterious and legendary ground shark of the Timor Sea

Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test

The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK

Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness

Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole

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

The Italian electoral abstention, and the self-fulfilling conspiracy theory plot

When it comes to jargon, it should only ever be about using the right tool for the right job

The immortality cult, cryonics, and the Arizona way of death

The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think

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

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

Even amid extreme heatwaves, well-funded climate change deniers continue to spread doubt

The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think

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

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

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

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The online debate about halal and kosher meat uses animal welfare as a political weapon

From the archives: Psychic Diary – Two North Yorkshire oddities

Causality: how to prove it scientifically, and why it matters

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 077

Even amid extreme heatwaves, well-funded climate change deniers continue to spread doubt

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