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Del Bigtree’s Better Way conference seeks to turn Covid conspiracists into full-on anti-vaxxers

Aaron Rabinowitz - 10th June 2022

Described by some as the "Davos of COVID conspiracy theorists", the Better Way conference clearly had its sights set on undermining confidence in all vaccines

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The Anti-Vax Truthpaper: Putting The Light under the spotlight

Mark Horne - 1st April 2022

The Light - the anti-vaccination newspaper started by a prominent flat earther - has increasingly pivoted to spreading far right extremist conspiracy theories

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Michael Yeadon; or why we should listen to the scientists who listen to the scientists

Mark Horne - 4th March 2022

Michael Yeadon, a former scientist at Pfizer, becoming one of the most prolific sources of pandemic pseudoscience shows that even experts aren't immune from misinformation

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David Icke and Brian Rose’s four-hour anti-vaxx misinformation marathon

Michael Marshall - 14th February 2022

Failed mayoral candidate Brian Rose invited David Icke back to spend four hours spreading dangerous Covid misinformation, enabled by YouTube

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There’s nothing to claims that Covid vaccines cause HIV – but that won’t stop them spreading

Alice Howarth - 11th February 2022

The latest viral conspiracy theory about COVID-19 vaccines are that they cause HIV infection - based on misreading scientific articles from two years ago

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Have Brazilians been effectively immunised against vaccine disinformation?

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 26th January 2022

While health misinformation is rife in Brazil, confidence in vaccines remains extremely high, thanks to decades of public health messaging

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Vernon Coleman: how the Pandemic has brought some unpleasant people new fame

Mark Horne - 19th January 2022

Former doctor Vernon Coleman's emergence as a star of the COVID-19 conspiracy movement is little surprise, given his prolific career of misinformation

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A viral post wrongly claimed omicron had been detected in July – here’s why that’s not true

Trevor Sloughter - 17th December 2021

A little familiarity with internet archives and web page source code can help us check viral claims about Covid, and skewer misinformation.

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The Mail Online declared arsenic a “miracle cure for cancer” – I’ll wait to see some evidence

Science can be a candle in the dark, as long as you’re not actively trying to avoid the light

Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs

Chiropractic’s life-saving claims are just another flight of fancy

Regulators take action against dentist offering applied kinesiology and cranial osteopathy

Del Bigtree’s Better Way conference seeks to turn Covid conspiracists into full-on anti-vaxxers

Abortion isn’t murder – despite their rhetoric, even the American religious right know it

The right to an abortion isn’t just about extreme, horrific cases – it’s about our bodily autonomy

The Dangerous Dogs Act, with its emphasis on how a dog looks, is wholly unscientific

The Russian Game: the conspiracy mongering propaganda techniques designed to stoke division

Could Loch Ness Monster sightings really be attributed to an aroused whale penis?

Elizabethan Skepticism: How “A Discoverie of Witchcraft” pushed back against a moral panic

Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs

When it comes to the paranormal, do ‘sheep’ and ‘goats’ think differently? It looks like they do

The return of a myth: Satanic ritual abuse and the sacred status of Argos

Another mass shooting in America cites the Great Replacement conspiracy theory as motivation

Nikola Tesla and the cult of the mysterious genius

Del Bigtree’s Better Way conference seeks to turn Covid conspiracists into full-on anti-vaxxers

Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs

The Russian Game: the conspiracy mongering propaganda techniques designed to stoke division

Could Loch Ness Monster sightings really be attributed to an aroused whale penis?

Nikola Tesla and the cult of the mysterious genius

Elizabethan Skepticism: How “A Discoverie of Witchcraft” pushed back against a moral panic

David Langford’s skeptical ‘Skrapbook’

Abortion isn’t murder – despite their rhetoric, even the American religious right know it

Nikola Tesla and the cult of the mysterious genius

Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs

When it comes to the paranormal, do ‘sheep’ and ‘goats’ think differently? It looks like they do

Jordan Peterson, climate change, and the many definitions of a scientific model

Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of the Dying Brain

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Another mass shooting in America cites the Great Replacement conspiracy theory as motivation

Could Loch Ness Monster sightings really be attributed to an aroused whale penis?

Nikola Tesla and the cult of the mysterious genius

The Mail Online declared arsenic a “miracle cure for cancer” – I’ll wait to see some evidence

Science can be a candle in the dark, as long as you’re not actively trying to avoid the light

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