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As a skeptic and a dentist, I jumped at the chance to take a dental acupuncturist course
Shaun Sellars
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28th July 2021
Alternative Medicine
The UK’s plan to please India by promoting Ayurvedic medicine puts politics ahead of science
Edzard Ernst
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21st July 2021
Alternative Medicine
Paul McCartney and The Bates Method of eyesight restoration
Mark Horne
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7th July 2021
Alternative Medicine
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
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Much ado about nothing: evidence of the ‘powerful placebo’ is far from convincing
Mike Hall
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30th July 2021
Covid-19
Why I called for the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Bolsanaro over our Covid crisis
Natália Pasternak
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26th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Inside the White Rose: The Covid conspiracy graffiti group operating on your doorstep
Michael Marshall
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19th July 2021
Covid-19
The JAMA ‘child mask’ research is fatally flawed – masks don’t cause “dangerous CO2 levels”
Danny Bradley
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16th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
Matthew Browne
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Chris Kavanagh
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23rd June 2021
Health
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
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The much-hyped UAP report’s lack of substance will do little to deter avid UFO believers
Nigel Watson
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23rd July 2021
Ghosts
Pulau Tekong: An island of ghosts, and the military men who train there
Ishan Singh
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15th July 2021
Paranormal
Why Millennials and Gen Z are turning to tarot as a form of “therapy”
Nandini Nair
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8th July 2021
Paranormal
The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America
Deborah Hyde
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28th June 2021
Astrology
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
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Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?
Chris French
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11th March 2021
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Inside the White Rose: The Covid conspiracy graffiti group operating on your doorstep
Michael Marshall
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19th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
When it comes to conspiracy theories, even the small stuff matters
Dave Hahn
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14th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Curbing misinformation begins with having more patience with the older generation
Ethel Lim
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1st July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
Matthew Browne
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Chris Kavanagh
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23rd June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
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
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Yishun: the source of Singapore’s very own “Florida Man” memes
Nicholas Tan Wee Xiong
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29th July 2021
Covid-19
Why I called for the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Bolsanaro over our Covid crisis
Natália Pasternak
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26th July 2021
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Going cashless may be the future, but we can’t afford to leave vulnerable people behind
Alif Yahya
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22nd July 2021
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Reinventing the Past: Why rely on orthodox historical study when you can invent your own?
Rachel Carthy
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20th July 2021
Ghosts
Pulau Tekong: An island of ghosts, and the military men who train there
Ishan Singh
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15th July 2021
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Counterweight, and the continued enabling of bad faith ‘anti-woke’ actors
Aaron Rabinowitz
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5th July 2021
Science
Recovering memories: Could the Satanic Panic happen again?
Chris French
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2nd July 2021
Society
10 songs that show there’s space for skepticism in the music industry
Brian Eggo
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30th June 2021
Paranormal
The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America
Deborah Hyde
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28th June 2021
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Behind the World Wide Wall: how the anglophone IT industry limits diversity in coding talent
Akshi Narang
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24th June 2021
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Much ado about nothing: evidence of the ‘powerful placebo’ is far from convincing
Mike Hall
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30th July 2021
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Psychoanalysis: Science or Pseudoscience? Examining the status of Freudian theory
Anna Järvinen
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27th July 2021
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Going cashless may be the future, but we can’t afford to leave vulnerable people behind
Alif Yahya
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22nd July 2021
Science
iNaturalist’s flaws leave people with a false impression of the world around them
Sarah Hearne
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12th July 2021
Science
Darling, you smell lovely: what role does body odour play in dating?
Ginny Smith
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9th July 2021
Science
Recovering memories: Could the Satanic Panic happen again?
Chris French
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2nd July 2021
Paranormal
The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America
Deborah Hyde
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28th June 2021
Science
Dodgy diagrams in ads matter, if we want people to understand the value of chemistry
Kat Day
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25th June 2021
Science
Behind the World Wide Wall: how the anglophone IT industry limits diversity in coding talent
Akshi Narang
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24th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
Matthew Browne
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Chris Kavanagh
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23rd June 2021
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Carlos Orsi
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Carlos Orsi is a journalist and science writer who also writes mystery and science fiction. He’s currently chief editor of Revista Questão de Ciência (Question of Science magazine).
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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 communication that focuses on lone geniuses making accidental discoveries can prime the public to accept quacks masquerading as mavericks
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
Most of the time, being proactive can be a good thing, but when it comes to healthcare, doing nothing is better than doing something stupid.
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
Kardecism - an 19th century off-shoot of spiritualism - found fertile ground in Brazil, and grew to wholly undermine trust in science and medicine.
Alternative Medicine
Brazilian Congress turns green – not for the environment, but for homeopathy
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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9th December 2020
Brazil continues to make baffling healthcare decisions, including lighting up the Brazilian congress buildings... in honour of homeopathy
Politics
Brazil’s government throw their weight behind Creationism and Intelligent Design
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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2nd November 2020
Driven by the Discovery Institute, Creationism and Intelligent Design have been gaining ground in Brazil, and finding support in government.
Alternative Medicine
Rectal ozone therapy: Brazil’s latest COVID-19 pseudoscience
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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12th October 2020
Brazil's rectal ozone therapy may sound ridiculous, but the reach of the pseudoscience movement is no joke
Covid-19
Hydroxychloroquine: when bad science goes mainstream
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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4th September 2020
As covid-19 spreads across Brazil, Natalia Pasternak and Carlos Orsi highlight how one purported miracle cure found friends in very high places.
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