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Are nanoparticles a turning point for homeopathy? Don’t count on it
Edzard Ernst
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27th October 2025
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Why is Tesco’s free recipe magazine telling me about the health benefits of sea moss?
Alice Howarth
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25th September 2025
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Preventing British Supplements’ health claims isn’t an infringement of free speech
Michael Marshall
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8th September 2025
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Sungazing, or staring directly at the sun, is definitely not good for your health
Alice Howarth
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Looksmaxxing: the pseudoscientific aesthetic answer to young men’s problems
Marcus Yeo Jun Hao
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24th October 2025
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Serdar Basegmez
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10th October 2025
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Ultramarathon runners and cancer risk – results from a preliminary study
Alice Howarth
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8th October 2025
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Why is Tesco’s free recipe magazine telling me about the health benefits of sea moss?
Alice Howarth
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25th September 2025
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If we take away the statistical quirks and biases, is there any placebo effect left?
Mike Hall
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22nd September 2025
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Deborah Hyde
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31st October 2025
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From the archives: The medium is not the message – fighting crime with psychics
Terry Sanderson
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21st October 2025
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UFO claims take centre stage at National Congress of Brazil hearing
João Lucas da Silva
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20th October 2025
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Are scholars legitimising witch hunting in post-colonial Africa?
Leo Igwe
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17th October 2025
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Predictive Programming: why conspiracists scour pop culture for sinister clues
Dave Hahn
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29th October 2025
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The sinking of the Titanic wasn’t a crafty insurance con, it was a real tragedy
Mike Hall
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13th October 2025
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Schrödinger’s Client List: why the Epstein conspiracy theory will not go away
Dave Hahn
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10th September 2025
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When the Great Resist conspiracy conference came to the North East
David Glass
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14th August 2025
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How concerned should we be about the UK’s geoengineering trials?
Michael Marshall
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8th August 2025
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Deborah Hyde
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31st October 2025
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From the archives: Brainwashing a skeptic – escaping from a frightening cult
Arthur Chappell
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28th October 2025
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Michael Marshall
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25th October 2025
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Michael Marshall
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There are serious ethical implications to sexualising AI chatbots
Aaron Rabinowitz
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22nd October 2025
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Serdar Basegmez
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10th October 2025
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Gabriel Andrade
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29th September 2025
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The Werther effect: a recipe for a 21st-century Children’s Crusade
Tomasz Witkowski
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24th September 2025
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One small step at a time, the alternative medicine industry is radicalising people
Michael Marshall
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4th November 2020
The alternative medicine industry has built up an ecosystem that efficiently radicalises its devotees into extreme positions
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What James Randi meant to me: Chris French reflects on the passing of The Amazing Randi
Chris French
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22nd October 2020
Professor Chris French marks the passing of James Randi with a lookback at the influence Randi had on his life and career.
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The Curse of Monster Island: a four year experiment in unmoderated free speech
Aaron Rabinowitz
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14th October 2020
A forum for unmoderated free speech quickly became a place to showcase the worst aspects of human nature, with grim consequences.
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The Ockham Awards 2020: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience
Michael Marshall
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22nd September 2020
Nominations for the 2020 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
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Coronavirus, conspiracy, challenges and compassion
Michael Marshall
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3rd September 2020
Our new editor Michael Marshall talks about the challenge of countering coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theory, and why compassion is such an important aspect of skepticism.
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COVID-19 nutrition myths
Pixie Turner
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3rd September 2020
Registered nutritionist Pixie Turner takes a look at some of the most common COVID-19 nutritional myths to arise during the pandemic.
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Can You Catch Morgellons from the Internet?
Deborah Hyde
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1st August 2017
Natasha Byrne investigates the role of a very modern medium in the proliferation of a very modern condition It’s enough to make your skin crawl:...
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A Quorum of Quacks
Deborah Hyde
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18th July 2017
For those of you who have never been festooned with so may needles that you looked like a archery target in fairyland, or else...
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