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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
Alternative Medicine
From growing basil to curing disease, pseudoscientists find support in the Qur’an
Stefano Bigliardi
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22nd July 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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Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist
Mauro Proença
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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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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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Michael Marshall
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4th September 2026
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The seemingly impossible task of getting access to Ariel School’s ‘Impossible Archive’
Gideon Reid
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31st July 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
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President Bukele’s head of marketing Lina Seiche uses misleading techniques to sell autocracy online
Ed Hewitt
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21st September 2026
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The Power of the Flat Earth Idea: A distinctive historical perspective on a proverbially absurd belief
Glenn Branch
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11th September 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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Ed Hewitt
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21st September 2026
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The network pushing extremism at the University of Cambridge – and why it should matter to skeptics
Michael Marshall
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18th September 2026
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Skeptics should not be so gullible as to believe Nathan Cofnas’ academic freedom is being stifled
Michael Marshall
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9th September 2026
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Helena Blavatsky, the psychic founder of Theosophy and Russian mother of the New Age movement
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4th September 2026
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How can we tell authentic writing, when even the Pope is suspected of using AI?
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2nd September 2026
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The longevity protocol of dasatinib and quercetin has shown some promise… but so far, only in mice
Brian Goncus
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16th September 2026
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The Turing test is no longer fit for purpose – we need a new benchmark for machine intelligence
Richard Glover
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14th September 2026
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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Hype: Monorail, Monorail, Monorail…
Mark Honeychurch
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7th September 2026
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How can we tell authentic writing, when even the Pope is suspected of using AI?
Aaron Rabinowitz
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2nd September 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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Margaret Boden is Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Sussex.
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From the archives: Unravelling the mysteries of creativity
Margaret Boden
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22nd September 2026
From the archives in 1993, Margaret Boden looks at the mystery and paradox of human creativity, and where creative ideas come from.
The Skeptic Podcast
The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 082
18th September 2026
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The longevity protocol of dasatinib and quercetin has shown some promise… but so far, only in mice
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From the archives: At the frontiers of science – cataloguing the anomalies and curiosities of nature
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