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Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist
Mauro Proença
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15th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
Edzard Ernst
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5th June 2026
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Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
André Bacchi
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1st June 2026
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From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics
H.B. Gibson
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28th April 2026
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The high price of anti-science paranoia and fake cancer-cure conspiracies
André Bacchi
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23rd March 2026
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Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation
Dayton Murphy
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10th June 2026
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Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
André Bacchi
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1st June 2026
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Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole
Michael Marshall
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29th May 2026
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Lost in translation: why most longevity breakthroughs don’t become therapies
Brian Goncus
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22nd May 2026
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The rise in chronic disease doesn’t necessarily mean we are getting sicker
Travis Baldwin
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24th April 2026
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Mike Hall
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8th June 2026
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Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
Hj Hornbeck
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20th May 2026
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The demons of Varginha: The cultural context behind Brazil’s famous UFO case
João Lucas da Silva
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13th May 2026
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How a very wrong Royal horoscope put astrology on the map in Britain
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Remembering Nick Pope, “the UK’s top UFO expert” (1965-2026)
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29th April 2026
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Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
Aaron Rabinowitz
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3rd June 2026
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Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole
Michael Marshall
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29th May 2026
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Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan
Michael Marshall
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10th April 2026
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The Italian electoral abstention, and the self-fulfilling conspiracy theory plot
Allegra Brachini
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25th March 2026
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Venezuelan “birtherism”: the nationalistic movement to delegitimise Nicolás Maduro
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The Odyssey of Helen’s skin colour: casting controversies and bad philology
Gabriel Andrade
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19th June 2026
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Five “zombie facts” about history that we need to consign to the past
Sean Slater
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12th June 2026
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Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
Aaron Rabinowitz
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3rd June 2026
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Smoke and mirrors: violent media, cigarettes, and shaky statistics
Jim Cliff
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18th May 2026
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Gen Z don’t really think they’re psychic – at least no more so than their elders
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15th May 2026
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AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich
Graeme Morledge
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17th June 2026
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The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
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5th June 2026
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In the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans
Richard Glover
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27th May 2026
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Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
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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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