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Ivermectin is a genuinely great drug, but there’s no good evidence it can treat cancer
Jack Lawrence
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21st August 2026
Alternative Medicine
Causality: how to prove it scientifically, and why it matters
Edzard Ernst
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17th August 2026
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From growing basil to curing disease, pseudoscientists find support in the Qur’an
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Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth
Michael Marshall
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24th June 2026
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Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist
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15th June 2026
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Ivermectin is a genuinely great drug, but there’s no good evidence it can treat cancer
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21st August 2026
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Get a longer little doggy: can we really double our dog’s lifespan?
Robyn Lowe
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20th July 2026
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The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK
Brian Eggo
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26th June 2026
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Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth
Michael Marshall
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24th June 2026
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Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation
Dayton Murphy
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10th June 2026
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Extraordinary claims, modest evidence: reincarnation, and the limits of parapsychology
Gabriel Andrade
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27th July 2026
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The underwhelming reality of the White House’s own ‘Disclosure Day’
Dave Hahn
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17th July 2026
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Identifying the mysterious and legendary ground shark of the Timor Sea
Karl Brandt
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13th July 2026
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Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test
Mike Hall
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8th June 2026
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Reptoids and lizard-like rulers: who truly owns a conspiracy theory?
Dave Hahn
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26th August 2026
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The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK
Brian Eggo
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26th June 2026
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Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
Aaron Rabinowitz
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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
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29th May 2026
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Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan
Michael Marshall
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10th April 2026
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Men’s liberation isn’t about upholding the patriarchy, but acknowledging it harms men, too
Dayton Murphy
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28th August 2026
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When it comes to jargon, it should only ever be about using the right tool for the right job
Richard Glover
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12th August 2026
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The immortality cult, cryonics, and the Arizona way of death
Wendy M. Grossman
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10th August 2026
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The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think
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7th August 2026
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No lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s intellectual equal
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5th August 2026
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The problem with Myers-Briggs: personality can’t be put into such neat little boxes
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31st August 2026
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Leaving aside the wonder and the doom, we should appreciate the real-world arithmetic cost of AI
Kevin Escoda
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24th August 2026
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Even amid extreme heatwaves, well-funded climate change deniers continue to spread doubt
Michael Marshall
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14th August 2026
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The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think
Aaron Rabinowitz
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7th August 2026
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John C McLachlan
Dr John C McLachlan works at the School of Biological and Medical Sciences at the University of St Andrews.
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From the archives: Cyril Burt Reconsidered – Another look at the charges of fraud levelled against Burt
John C McLachlan
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1st September 2026
From the archives of July 1993, John C McLachlan picks back up the story of Cyril Burt, to question how much can be attributed to fraud, and how much to sloppiness.
The Skeptic Podcast
The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 079
28th August 2026
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From the archives: Cyril Burt Reconsidered – Another look at the charges of fraud levelled against Burt
1st September 2026
The problem with Myers-Briggs: personality can’t be put into such neat little boxes
31st August 2026
Men’s liberation isn’t about upholding the patriarchy, but acknowledging it harms men, too
28th August 2026
Reptoids and lizard-like rulers: who truly owns a conspiracy theory?
26th August 2026
From the archives: Sir Francis Galton, the Victorian polymath… and noted eugenicist
25th August 2026
