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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.

A psychic child bride and ghostly inspiration: the invention of chiropractic

Daniel David Palmer, the inventor of chiropractic, claimed his movement was inspired by spiritual communication with the ghost of a doctor

The Southport attack wasn’t ideologically motivated; the misinformation around it is

Why is the British public more likely to believe misinformation about the Southport killer now than they did at the time of the attack?

The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers

The Telepathy Tapes podcast claims non-verbal children have remarkable supernatural powers, based on flawed experiments and unconstrained belief

Wim Hof: the self-described ‘Ice man’ whose extreme health claims leave many cold

Wim Hof has developed a cult following among wellness influencers for his extreme tales of endurance, but his icy legend somewhat melts under scrutiny

Elon Musk beats Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett to Rusty Razor pseudoscience award

Twitter owner Elon Musk has beaten Dragon's Den star Steven Bartlett to the Rusty Razor award for worst pseudoscience of 2024

Dr Flint Dibble wins 2024 Skeptical Activism Ockham award

Dr Flint Dibble, an archaeologist who debated and debunk lost city of Atlantis claims, has received the 2024 Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism.

Could AI help fix the issues of ineffective alternative medicine regulation?

A new study uses AI to identify misleading health claims, showing that with the right motivation and technology, proper regulation of alternative medicine is possible

The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK

"Woman arrested for praying" is the latest in a string of legal cases used by US conservative Christian organisations to fight against progress in the UK
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