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Michael Marshall

Michael Marshall is the project director of the Good Thinking Society and president of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. He is the co-host of the Skeptics with a K podcast, interviews proponents of pseudoscience on the Be Reasonable podcast, has given skeptical talks all around the world, and has lectured at several universities on the role of PR in the media. He became editor of The Skeptic in August 2020.

Skeptics should not be so gullible as to believe Nathan Cofnas’ academic freedom is being stifled

So-called "race realist" Nathan Cofnas is selling the story that his suspension is a retaliation for whistleblowing - sadly, some skeptics are buying it.

Helena Blavatsky, the psychic founder of Theosophy and Russian mother of the New Age movement

Helena Blavatsky, founder of theosophy, was once described as one of the most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.

Even amid extreme heatwaves, well-funded climate change deniers continue to spread doubt

Climate change deniers like the Daily Sceptic are working overtime to downplay the UK's unprecedented series of heatwaves.

The Ockham Awards 2026: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience

Nominations for the 2026 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.

We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation

While the UK has moved to limit the harms of social media by restricting access for children, Facebook and Twitter continue to radicalise people of all ages.

Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth

As part of an NHS push for "normal" births - without medical intervention - midwives around the country have been treating labour complications with aromatherapy.

Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole

Throughout the pandemic, writer Naomi Wolf fell from feminist icon and public intellectual, to conspiracy theorist and talking head of the right-wing media ecosystem

Gen Z don’t really think they’re psychic – at least no more so than their elders

New "research" suggests that a third of Gen Z believe they have psychic intuition – based on an online survey with deep methodological flaws.
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