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Therapeutic Touch: another health scam from America
Mahlon W Wagner
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12th October 2021
Alternative Medicine
‘Prevent Senior’ in Brazil accused of conducting unethical medical experiments on Covid patients
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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1st October 2021
Alternative Medicine
The curious rise in the popularity of osteopathy in France
Edzard Ernst
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27th September 2021
Acupuncture
When it comes to research, so-called alternative medicine is hostile to progress
Edzard Ernst
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20th August 2021
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Durian fruit myths: the many tall tales associated with the “King of Fruits”
Ke Yi Lim
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12th August 2021
Alternative Medicine
The Society of Homeopaths, and the issues with regulating healthcare in the UK
Michael Marshall
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6th August 2021
Acupuncture
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
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The BBC’s ‘Sickness and Lies’ adds to the stigma disabled and chronically ill people experience
Alice Howarth
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5th October 2021
Alternative Medicine
‘Prevent Senior’ in Brazil accused of conducting unethical medical experiments on Covid patients
Natália Pasternak
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Carlos Orsi
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1st October 2021
Health
Placebo inhalers can’t treat asthma: another ‘powerful placebo’ myth busted
Mike Hall
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29th September 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Inside the White Rose: the extremist groups looking to capitalise on Covid paranoia
Michael Marshall
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6th September 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Though it remains unlikely, we’ve too little data to fully rule out the lab leak hypothesis… yet
Wendy M. Grossman
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3rd September 2021
Health
The idea that four placebo pills are more powerful than two sounds magical – because it isn’t true
Mike Hall
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27th August 2021
Health
Living donor: why I decided to give my right kidney to a complete stranger
Jairus Durnett
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16th August 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Inside the White Rose: from stickers and graffiti to an online Covid conspiracy ecosystem
Michael Marshall
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11th August 2021
Health
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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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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“I do try to think more critically!”: The Parapod’s Barry Dodds on his belief in the paranormal
Brian Eggo
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15th October 2021
Paranormal
The mystery of the Gedriya: Unexplained lights over the Arabian Desert
David Mountain
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6th October 2021
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Is believing seeing? Early research into the unreliability of eyewitness testimony
Richard Wiseman
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28th September 2021
Paranormal
Why I now believe parapsychology is a science not a pseudoscience
Chris French
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22nd September 2021
Paranormal
Behind the times: living in a modern era doesn’t inoculate us against believing in curses
Deborah Hyde
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17th September 2021
Hilary Evans Paranormal Library
The two ghosts of Muncaster Castle
Deborah Hyde
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2nd August 2021
UFOs
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
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We all want to feel special and unique – which is what leads some of us to conspiracy theories
Dave Hahn
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13th October 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Eurabia, the Kalergi Plan, and the Great Replacement
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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24th September 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The conspiracy theorists scaremongering about UN Agenda 21 have obviously not read Agenda 21
Mark Horne
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20th September 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Inside the White Rose: the extremist groups looking to capitalise on Covid paranoia
Michael Marshall
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6th September 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Though it remains unlikely, we’ve too little data to fully rule out the lab leak hypothesis… yet
Wendy M. Grossman
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3rd September 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The Bewilder Gambit: a conspiracy theorist tactic designed to distract
Dave Hahn
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25th August 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Fire, malfunction, North Korea, or something else: What really happened to flight MH370?
Brandon Ang
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19th August 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Inside the White Rose: from stickers and graffiti to an online Covid conspiracy ecosystem
Michael Marshall
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11th August 2021
Conspiracy Theories
How American conspiracy theories invaded my family home in Singapore
Jadon Teo
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5th August 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
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“I do try to think more critically!”: The Parapod’s Barry Dodds on his belief in the paranormal
Brian Eggo
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15th October 2021
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Therapeutic Touch: another health scam from America
Mahlon W Wagner
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12th October 2021
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The paradox of progress: how some social improvements paper over unfairness and inequality
Aaron Rabinowitz
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8th October 2021
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Foreign aid, ethical obligations and the morality of giving
Julian Baggini
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7th October 2021
Paranormal
The mystery of the Gedriya: Unexplained lights over the Arabian Desert
David Mountain
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6th October 2021
Health
The BBC’s ‘Sickness and Lies’ adds to the stigma disabled and chronically ill people experience
Alice Howarth
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5th October 2021
Archive
Is believing seeing? Early research into the unreliability of eyewitness testimony
Richard Wiseman
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28th September 2021
Paranormal
Behind the times: living in a modern era doesn’t inoculate us against believing in curses
Deborah Hyde
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17th September 2021
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Misleading propaganda from ‘Care Not Killing’ is designed to poison the well on assisted dying
Brian Eggo
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15th September 2021
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For a high-functioning society we must learn to embrace neurodiversity
Galina Limorenko
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10th September 2021
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ASMR: the emerging scientific quest to understand brain ‘tingles’
Sarah Hearne
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11th October 2021
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Why I now believe parapsychology is a science not a pseudoscience
Chris French
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22nd September 2021
Science
Are the claims for using coffee waste in the garden well grounded?
Sarah Hearne
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13th September 2021
Psychology
For a high-functioning society we must learn to embrace neurodiversity
Galina Limorenko
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10th September 2021
GMOs
Closing the information gap on GM technology means addressing fear, as well as ignorance
Natália Pasternak
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1st September 2021
Health
Living donor: why I decided to give my right kidney to a complete stranger
Jairus Durnett
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16th August 2021
Science
Recovering memories: The truth is, the Satanic Panic never really went away
Chris French
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13th August 2021
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Rapa Nui: European myths mask the reason for societal collapse on Easter Island – colonialism
Sarah Hearne
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9th August 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
Psychology
Psychoanalysis: Science or Pseudoscience? Examining the status of Freudian theory
Anna Järvinen
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27th July 2021
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Health food stores, a danger to public health?
Edzard Ernst
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1st February 2021
A Canadian study showed that health food shops were overwhelmingly likely to give misleading advice on cancer - are things any better here?
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Dying to believe: how Gerson therapy claims jeopardise cancer patients
Michael Marshall
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14th November 2017
Michael Marshall reports from a "cancer cure" seminar where patients were explicitly told to give up their chemotherapy in favour of disproven treatments.
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