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From the archives: the ‘Synchro-Energiser’ – a pseudoscientific panacea?
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25th September 2025
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8th September 2025
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5th December 2025
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28th November 2025
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17th November 2025
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12th November 2025
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Why we should have listened to Flat Earth believers (even though they were completely wrong)
Michael Marshall
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5th February 2021
Since making headlines in 2018, many Flat Earth believers have become Covid deniers and QAnon followers. The signs were always there.
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When predictions fail: UFO cults, QAnon and cognitive dissonance
Chris French
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3rd February 2021
When their predictions don't come true, cults are faced with a choice: accept reality, or rationalise the failure. Which road will Qanon take?
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Nesta Helen Webster: the far-right author who popularised the antisemitic Illuminati conspiracy
Mark Horne
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29th January 2021
The Qanon movement regurgiates old antisemitic tropes that echo back to the Illuminati conspiracy theories pushed by Nesta Helen Webster
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Qanon’s references to ‘Adrenochome’ echo old, anti-Semitic Blood Libel myths
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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20th January 2021
Adrenochrome has become a central part of the Qanon theory, despite 'Q' never mentioning it; its history is long, and deeply anti-Semitic.
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David Icke’s 2018 tour sowed the seeds for a return to the conspiracy mainstream
Michael Marshall
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18th January 2021
David Icke's 2018 tour sanitised some of his more outré claims and played to the free speech gallery, readying his return to the mainstream.
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Meet the conspiracy theorists who believe Covid isn’t real… because viruses don’t exist
Frank Visser
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14th January 2021
In the world of the virus deniers, not only is the novel coronavirus fake, but viruses themselves don't actually exist.
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Cheap talk skepticism: why we need to push back against those who are ‘just asking questions’
Aaron Rabinowitz
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8th January 2021
'Cheap talk' skepticism - coming at little cost to the doubter, but significant cost to others - is undermining genuine skeptical inquiry.
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Anti-vaxxers are dangerously wrong, but we should be wary of writing them off as stupid or selfish
Michael Marshall
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18th December 2020
If we want to be effective in countering anti-vaxxers, we need to understand their arguments, and why people believe them.
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