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Steve Donnelly is a physics professor at the University of Salford
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From the archives:Â a chat with James Randi, the charming charlatan
Steve Donnelly
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28th May 2025
From the archives in 1991, Steve Donnelly sits down with skeptic, magician, atheist and charlatan, James 'The Amazing' Randi
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From the archive: Explaining the Turin Shroud – the creation of a religious hoax
Steve Donnelly
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9th July 2024
From the archives in 1988, Steve Donnelly interviews Joe Nickel on the Turin Shroud and how the hoax was created
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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