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Mark Horne
32 Articles
Mark Horne is a former board member of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. He currently works in higher education fundrasing and has previously been a copywriter, researcher and campaigner.
“No Tax For Genocide”: is the refusal to pay taxes a reasonable form of protest?
The "No Tax For Genocide" campaign urges protesters to withhold tax payments, but followers of their advice should think hard about the group's goals
Could ASMR be a possible explanation for some new age and spiritual experiences?
Reports of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, bear a striking resemblance to the way some people describe their experience of reiki... and of religion
The strange hinterland of the long-dead Baba Vanga and her annual psychic predictions
Every year, the media cover the amazing predictions made by Bulgarian psychic Baba Vanga - the only problem is, there's no evidence she ever actually made them
A half term holiday adventure around Manchester’s allegedly “most haunted” locations
Paranormal tourism is back in fashion, though a trip around Manchester's supposedly most haunted locations failed to reveal anything remotely uncanny
The writing’s been on the wall for decades, but still the graphology persists
During coverage of the trial of Lucy Letby, we didn't need to hear from graphologists - the pseudoscience of deriving psychological insights from someone's handwriting
The top 10 most infuriating climate change memes, and how to debunk them
Rather than engage with the realities of climate change, some people prefer the comforting reassurance of denialism, packaged in these 10 infuriating memes
If you should go at midnight: legends and legend tripping in America
In his new book, sociologist Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl examines 'legend tripping': the adolescent rite of passage of seeking out purported sites of creepy or paranormal experiences
Central Bank Digital Currencies, and why conspiracists are urging each other to use cash
Central Bank Digital Currencies have become the new target of fear from conspiracy theorists, who insist that cash is freedom... but is it?
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