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  Michael Marshall - 24th June 2026
  
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  Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist
  
  Mauro Proença - 15th June 2026
  
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  The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
  
  Edzard Ernst - 5th June 2026
  
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  Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
  
  André Bacchi - 1st June 2026
  
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  From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics
  
  H.B. Gibson - 28th April 2026
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  The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK
  
  Brian Eggo - 26th June 2026
  
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  Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth
  
  Michael Marshall - 24th June 2026
  
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  Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation
  
  Dayton Murphy - 10th June 2026
  
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  Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
  
  André Bacchi - 1st June 2026
  
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  Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole
  
  Michael Marshall - 29th May 2026
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  Identifying the mysterious and legendary ground shark of the Timor Sea
  
  Karl Brandt - 13th July 2026
  
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  Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test
  
  Mike Hall - 8th June 2026
  
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  Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
  
  Hj Hornbeck - 20th May 2026
  
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  The demons of Varginha: The cultural context behind Brazil’s famous UFO case
  
  João Lucas da Silva - 13th May 2026
  
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  How a very wrong Royal horoscope put astrology on the map in Britain
  
  Carlos Orsi - 11th May 2026
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  Brian Eggo - 26th June 2026
  
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  Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 3rd June 2026
  
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  Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole
  
  Michael Marshall - 29th May 2026
  
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  Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan
  
  Michael Marshall - 10th April 2026
  
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  The Italian electoral abstention, and the self-fulfilling conspiracy theory plot
  
  Allegra Brachini - 25th March 2026
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  Good skin, good girl: the subtle misogyny of the ‘no make-up’ look
  
  Megan Tan Shu En - 10th July 2026
  
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  Green rapture: Sarah Wilson’s best-selling guide to the apocalypse for the worried well
  
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  Faith, Power, and Inconsistency: The Problem with J.D. Vance’s Conversion Narrative
  
  Gabriel Andrade - 3rd July 2026
  
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  The Kidd-Palmer Maps conclusively proven to be a hoax lifted directly from fiction
  
  Oliver Smith - 1st July 2026
  
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  The importance of teaching creativity and innovation in African Schools
  
  Leo Igwe - 29th June 2026
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  Ted Lefroy - 8th July 2026
  
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  Adult movies were not the reason Betamax really lost the video wars
  
  Mike Hall - 6th July 2026
  
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  The Nobel Prize-winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive
  
  Tom Williamson - 22nd June 2026
  
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  AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich
  
  Graeme Morledge - 17th June 2026
  
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  The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
  
  Edzard Ernst - 5th June 2026
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Brian Morris

Brian Morris teaches anthropology at Goldsmith's College, London.

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From the archives: Rajneesh – The rise and fall of a modern ‘god’

Brian Morris - 14th July 2026

From the archives of May 1993, anthropologist Brian Morris documents the life and fall of failed guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

The Skeptic Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 072

10th July 2026

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From the archives: Rajneesh – The rise and fall of a modern ‘god’

14th July 2026

Identifying the mysterious and legendary ground shark of the Timor Sea

13th July 2026

Good skin, good girl: the subtle misogyny of the ‘no make-up’ look

10th July 2026

Green rapture: Sarah Wilson’s best-selling guide to the apocalypse for the worried well

8th July 2026

From the archives: Spirit guides and after-images – seeing is not necessarily believing

7th July 2026