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Much ado about nothing: evidence of the ‘powerful placebo’ is far from convincing

Mike Hall -
A look at a paper touting the benefits of placebo for shoulder pain shows ‘powerful placebo’ claims fail to stand up to scrutiny.
Covid-19

Why I called for the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Bolsanaro over our Covid crisis

Natália Pasternak -
Science-based policies can save us from future pandemics. We won't get them by remaining silent when denialism takes over governments.
Conspiracy Theories

Inside the White Rose: The Covid conspiracy graffiti group operating on your doorstep

Michael Marshall -
Throughout the pandemic, the White Rose movement has been growing, plastering towns with Covid conspiracy propaganda stickers
Covid-19

The JAMA ‘child mask’ research is fatally flawed – masks don’t cause “dangerous CO2 levels”

Danny Bradley -
The study’s basic methodological errors, and flawed supplemental literature did not stop pundits from using it to scaremonger about masks
Conspiracy Theories

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

Matthew Browne, Chris Kavanagh -
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
Health

Erectile difficulties? The P-Shot injection into your penis is not the solution you’re looking for

Alice Howarth -
The £1,200 P-Shot promises to end erectile dysfunction, but it's better to ditch the needle and instead have an honest, open conversation
Covid-19

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

Danny Bradley -
Even the most robust arguments of the so-called 'Lockdown Sceptics' rely on quoting selectively from the studies they reference
Covid-19

Brazil’s COVID-19 inquiry puts pseudoscience on trial

Natália Pasternak -
The COVID-19 inquiry in Brazil is an opportunity to understand what went wrong and what can be learned - it is one we can't afford to pass up
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