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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
Kat Ford -
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