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Alternative Medicine

Veterinary Homeopathy: Is the bark worse than the bite?

Robyn Lowe - 6th April 2022

Once owners have been persuaded to put their faith in alternative treatments like homeopathy, it can be extremely hard for veterinary professionals to change their mind.

Conspiracy Theories

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

Health

Could lucid dreaming be the answer to avoiding persistent, recurring nightmares?

Jasmine Loh - 31st March 2022

Learning how to consciously control and alter your dream environment through lucid dreaming may offer relief to sufferers of recurrent nightmares

Health

Dread not chilli peppers: dispelling spicy food myths and misconceptions

Alice Howarth - 25th March 2022

Lovers of spicy food will almost certainly have been subjected to some of these myths about the humble chili pepper

Alternative Medicine

Gerson Support Group cancer ‘cure’ charity removed from register by Charity Commission

Michael Marshall - 14th March 2022

The Gerson Support Group failed to meet the Charity Commission's public benefit test - and it's not the only CAM charity that will fail to clear that hurdle

Veterinary Medicine

The ‘raw feeding’ trend can cause real harm to your pets – and to you

Danny Chambers, Robyn Lowe - 11th March 2022

The popularity of 'raw feeding' is often based on misunderstood animal welfare and conspiracy theories around conventional pet foods

Covid-19

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

Health

Who is “That Girl”, and why do Gen Zs worship her routine?

Nursyazwani Jamil - 3rd March 2022

The "That Girl" social media trend promises an idealised glimpse at a perfect life, but sets unrealistic expectations for one-size-fits-all routines

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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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