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Joss paper offerings: how to make Chinese hell a fun place for your ancestors

Chinese mourners traditionally burn paper offerings for dead relatives - but recently, the practice has expanded to involve paper versions of iPhones and luxury goods

Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo isn’t dead… but the credibility of Twitter ads might well be

Twitter accepted payment to promote tweets falsely claiming celebrity deaths, linking to scam sites impersonating national newspapers to push cryptocurrency scams

What’s in Lake Champlain? Analysing historic sightings of the cryptid known as “Champ”

By tracking sightings of the Lake Champlain cryptid over 10 years, we can see that reports significantly increased once the public expected to see something

Charles appoints alt-med fan Dr Michael Dixon as Head of the Royal Medical Household

Though largely unnoticed, Charles' appointment of alt-med advocate, Dr Michael Dixon, as Head of the Royal Medical Household may be telling

Matt Le Tissier talks to The Skeptic about Covid, vaccines, 15-minute cities and climate change

The Skeptic editor, Michael Marshall, sat down with former footballer Matt Le Tissier to ask why he has become increasingly vocal in his support for conspiracy theories

Patience isn’t just a virtue, it’s a crucial part of showing compassion for conspiracy theorists

Continuing to engage hecklers with as much patience and compassion as possible is the only hope we have for reaching people we disagree with

A double-edge sword: should we be labelling kids?

Labels in children's mental health offer validation, but risk pigeonholing, misdiagnosis, and overshadowing the child behind the diagnosis

Diagnostic agnostic: flawed research overstates the overlaps between ADHD, ASD, and OCD

A new study claims that autism, ADHD and OCD are all actually diagnoses on the same spectrum, but the paper has simply too many flaws to be persuasive
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