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From the archives: the ‘Synchro-Energiser’ – a pseudoscientific panacea?
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4th November 2025
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27th October 2025
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25th September 2025
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8th September 2025
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28th November 2025
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Marcelo Yamashita
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10th November 2025
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Why are heart attacks in women so often misdiagnosed?
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7th November 2025
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19th November 2025
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Madeleine Goodall
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17th November 2025
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Exploring the limits of skepticism. Part 2: The plot thickens
Chris French
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12th November 2025
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The Grim Rea-purr? The cats claimed to be able to predict death
Brian Eggo
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3rd November 2025
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Halloween for Skeptics: ‘Monsters on the Couch’ by Brian Sharpless
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31st October 2025
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29th October 2025
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27th November 2025
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What little you know about Jack the Ripper’s victims is almost certainly wrong
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Steve Donnelly
Steve Donnelly is a physics professor at the University of Salford
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Whatever happened to crop circles?
Steve Donnelly
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1st July 2008
From the archives, Steve Donnelly wistfully pines for the appearances of beautiful - though entirely explicable - crop circle formations in fields.
Archive
Levity on the Web: how the internet facilitates pseudoscience – and skepticism
Steve Donnelly
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11th July 2007
From the archives, Steve Donnelly reflects on the role of the internet in spreading and promoting pseudoscience - and allowing skeptics to expose it
Alternative Medicine
Rhyme and Reason – Magnetic quackery
Steve Donnelly
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1st April 2006
From the archives, Steve Donnelly takes a look at MagneCare's claims that magnetism can cure all manner of ailments
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Rhyme, reason and numerology: All the ones
Steve Donnelly
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5th October 2005
From the archives, Steve Donnelly explains that while you might think it's just a coincidence that you notice when the time is 11:11, some think it's a sign of something more significant.
Alternative Medicine
Electromagnetic protection: the dodgy devices promising to protect you from EMFs
Steve Donnelly
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22nd January 2004
From the archives, Steve Donnelly discusses the burgeoning field of electromagnetic protection protecting devices
Archive
Dopamine and religiosity: keep taking the tablets…
Steve Donnelly
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18th October 2002
From the archives, Steve Donnelly ponders research linking religiosity and skepticism with varying degrees of dopamine levels in the brain.
Archive
Rhyme and Reason: a Rael expert takes a look at the Raelian movement
Steve Donnelly
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1st April 2002
From the archives, former editor Steve Donnelly takes a look at the Raelian movement's claims about human cloning, on BBC's Today programme
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From the archives: a chat with James Randi, the charming charlatan
Steve Donnelly
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1st July 1991
From the archives in 1991, Steve Donnelly sits down with skeptic, magician, atheist and charlatan, James 'The Amazing' Randi
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