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Why Millennials and Gen Z are turning to tarot as a form of “therapy”

Tarot's TikTok popularity is just the latest sign of the younger generation looking for whatever answers they can find - even if they're not true

Counterweight, and the continued enabling of bad faith ‘anti-woke’ actors

The 'anti-woke helpline' Counterweight launched in a flurry of uncritical media interviews, but are less forthcoming when it comes to answering reasonable questions from critics

Recovering memories: Could the Satanic Panic happen again?

Ongoing public belief in the idea of repressed memories suggests that the so-called Memory Wars are not yet over, and that the Satanic Panic could happen again

The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America

The Satanic Panic of the 1980s showed we don't actually need a real Satan - well-meaning, deluded and fervent people will do His work for Him.

You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders

The pseudoscience and vaccine scaremongering from Drs Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein illustrates the importance of intellectual humility, especially when operating outside your field of knowledge

BTS = Bow to Satan? How Satanic, Illuminati conspiracies travelled from West to East

The use of religious iconography has seen a growth in the conspiracy theory that BTS - the Korean boyband phenomenon - worship Satan

Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries

Seaspiracy is just the latest example of a documentary using style and glossy production to hide the fact that it's peddling misinformation

How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific

Even the most robust arguments of the so-called 'Lockdown Sceptics' rely on quoting selectively from the studies they reference
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