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