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Alternative Medicine
- All Acupuncture Cancer cures Chiropractic Homeopathy Naturopathy Traditional Chinese Medicine
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance
  
  Edzard Ernst - 4th June 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  “Fake Medicine”: Dr Brad McKay skilfully takes apart health advice from Dr Google
  
  Edzard Ernst - 21st May 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery
  
  David Weinberg - 7th May 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Brazil’s bogus “Covid kit” represents a failure of private healthcare regulation
  
  Natália Pasternak - 26th April 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion
  
  Chris French - 21st April 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  How alternative medicine radicalises believers into Qanon conspiracy theories
  
  Dave Hahn - 14th April 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Should we be skeptical of homeopathy research conducted in India? A look at the evidence
  
  Edzard Ernst - 12th April 2021
  
  Acupuncture
  
  New NICE guidelines on chronic pain fall woefully short – and not just because of the acupuncture
  
  Alice Howarth - 9th April 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Integrative medicine: Mixing cow pie with apple pie
  
  Edzard Ernst - 12th March 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  When it comes to our health, doing nothing is often better than doing something wrong
  
  Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 19th February 2021
Health
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  Health
  
  Erectile difficulties? The P-Shot injection into your penis is not the solution you’re looking for
  
  Alice Howarth - 21st June 2021
  
  Covid-19
  
  How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific
  
  Danny Bradley - 11th June 2021
  
  Covid-19
  
  Brazil’s COVID-19 inquiry puts pseudoscience on trial
  
  Natália Pasternak - 9th June 2021
  
  Chemtrails
  
  From chemtrails to COVID-19, Naomi Wolf’s prolific promotion of pseudoscience
  
  Mark Horne - 7th June 2021
  
  Covid-19
  
  Young people in Singapore may be vaccine hesitant, but we’ll get vaccinated to protect others
  
  Mathilda Ng - 3rd June 2021
  
  Covid-19
  
  Making vaccines convenient and accessible helps minimise the impact of vaccine hesitancy
  
  Wendy M. Grossman - 31st May 2021
  
  Covid-19
  
  If we’re going to convince the vaccine hesitant, we need to tackle conspiratorial thinking
  
  Dave Hahn - 26th May 2021
  
  Health
  
  Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is absolutely not the ‘third leading cause of death’
  
  Michael Marshall - 12th May 2021
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience
  
  Mark Horne - 5th May 2021
  
  Dentistry
  
  Not all dentists promote evidence-based treatments – four red-flag signs to look out for
  
  Shaun Sellars - 3rd May 2021
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  Astrology
  
  When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
  
  Nagesh Rajopadhye - 18th June 2021
  
  Ghosts
  
  The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
  
  Deborah Hyde - 24th May 2021
  
  History
  
  Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
  
  Matt Mills - 10th May 2021
  
  Cryptozoology
  
  What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?
  
  David Mountain - 23rd April 2021
  
  Hilary Evans Paranormal Library
  
  ‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman
  
  Deborah Hyde - 9th April 2021
  
  Psychics
  
  Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?
  
  Chris French - 11th March 2021
  
  Ancient Aliens
  
  Blackpool’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ park is built on racist assumptions about the past
  
  Mark Horne - 24th February 2021
  
  QAnon
  
  When predictions fail: UFO cults, QAnon and cognitive dissonance
  
  Chris French - 3rd February 2021
  
  Covid-19
  
  Pandemic prediction problems: meet the psychics who claim to have predicted COVID-19
  
  Brian Eggo - 21st January 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil
  
  Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 15th January 2021
Conspiracy
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  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
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  Talking with believers helps us understand the emotional appeal of conspiracy theories
  
  Kang Le Yeo - 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 - 14th May 2021
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience
  
  Mark Horne - 5th May 2021
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  Our guide to the pseudoscience promoters aiming to be the next mayor of London
  
  Michael Marshall - 30th April 2021
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  Bill Cooper: the conspiracy theorist who links afrofuturist “Hoteps” with Alex Jones
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 28th April 2021
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  ‘Legal Name Fraud’ – The Truth? It’s hogwash
  
  Geoff Whelan - 16th April 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  How alternative medicine radicalises believers into Qanon conspiracy theories
  
  Dave Hahn - 14th April 2021
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  Astrology
  
  When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
  
  Nagesh Rajopadhye - 18th June 2021
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  The continuation of QAnon: the eternal sunshine of an election that never ended
  
  Thiago Vahia Malliagros - 16th June 2021
  
  Media
  
  Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
  
  Sarah Hearne - 14th June 2021
  
  Politics
  
  The American Culture War: Coming soon to a politics near you
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 2nd June 2021
  
  Science
  
  Recovering memories: How the Satanic Panic led to false reports of horrific abuse
  
  Chris French - 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 - 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 - 10th May 2021
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  Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
  
  Sarah Hearne - 14th June 2021
  
  Science
  
  Recovering memories: How the Satanic Panic led to false reports of horrific abuse
  
  Chris French - 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 - 17th May 2021
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion
  
  Chris French - 21st April 2021
  
  Science
  
  University of Liverpool’s proposed redundancies raise serious red flags for academia
  
  Alice Howarth - 7th April 2021
  
  Science
  
  The ‘scientist as lone genius’ is a myth that obscures real stories of scientific discovery
  
  Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 26th March 2021
  
  Science
  
  Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white
  
  Sarah Hearne - 22nd March 2021
  
  Health
  
  10 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease
  
  Alice Howarth - 26th February 2021
  
  Science
  
  Toxoplasmosis: how worried should we be about the ‘mind-control parasite’ spread by cats?
  
  Lydia Hemus - 12th February 2021
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