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Alternative Medicine

When it comes to our health, doing nothing is often better than doing something wrong

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 19th February 2021

Most of the time, being proactive can be a good thing, but when it comes to healthcare, doing nothing is better than doing something stupid.

Covid-19

Is community testing the answer to managing the COVID-19 pandemic effectively?

Alice Howarth - 25th January 2021

Understanding the accuracy of PCR and Lateral Flow tests - and how they compare - is key in assessing the UK's community testing program

Health

Well-designed patient outreach can help tackle misinformation where it does the most harm

Galina Limorenko - 22nd January 2021

Engaging directly and openly with patients can have a lasting effect - for both the patients and the scientists trying to help them.

Covid-19

Pandemic prediction problems: meet the psychics who claim to have predicted COVID-19

Brian Eggo - 21st January 2021

Psychics and astrologers now claim to have successfully predicted the pandemic, here's what their 2020 predictions actually said

Covid-19

What does Covid-safe dentistry look like?

Shaun Sellars - 19th January 2021

Dentists are quite literally in the firing line when it comes to COVID-19, but we're taking every precaution possible to treat patients safely.

Conspiracy Theories

Meet the conspiracy theorists who believe Covid isn’t real… because viruses don’t exist

Frank Visser - 14th January 2021

In the world of the virus deniers, not only is the novel coronavirus fake, but viruses themselves don't actually exist.

Covid-19

I’ll get the Covid vaccine – here’s why I’m telling you, and why you should tell everyone too

Matthew Reynolds - 6th January 2021

We can all play an active role in helping achieve Covid-19 vaccination coverage by limiting the spread of misplaced vaccine fear.

Alternative Medicine

The Outbrain drain: why newspaper sites have run thousands of scam ads

Michael Marshall - 4th January 2021

The news media is in an income crisis, but the solution cannot be for newspapers to lend their reputations to scams and fakers

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Should we be skeptical of homeopathy research conducted in India? A look at the evidence

New NICE guidelines on chronic pain fall woefully short – and not just because of the acupuncture

Integrative medicine: Mixing cow pie with apple pie

When it comes to our health, doing nothing is often better than doing something wrong

New NICE guidelines on chronic pain fall woefully short – and not just because of the acupuncture

Rapid Prompting Method: A new form of communicating? Hardly

Virginity testing is as unscientific as it is sexist, but will banning these tests prove effective?

Do we really need supplements? A skeptic’s guide to micronutrients

‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman

Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?

Blackpool’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ park is built on racist assumptions about the past

When predictions fail: UFO cults, QAnon and cognitive dissonance

The conspiracy theorists who believe ‘traditional masculinity’ is under deliberate, strategic attack

2019’s ‘The Mandela Effect’ is a stylish, shallow exploration of a rather silly conspiracy theory

Can you recognise antisemitism when you see it? An interactive meme adventure

How the conspiracy theorists behind the failed US coup settled on a new date: March 4th

The conspiracy theorists who believe ‘traditional masculinity’ is under deliberate, strategic attack

“Who decides?”: how fair questions can derail meaningful action

Are you smarter than an 800 year-old? Our ancestors were more skeptical than you think

Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white

University of Liverpool’s proposed redundancies raise serious red flags for academia

The ‘scientist as lone genius’ is a myth that obscures real stories of scientific discovery

Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white

10 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease

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Should we be skeptical of homeopathy research conducted in India? A look at the evidence

New NICE guidelines on chronic pain fall woefully short – and not just because of the acupuncture

‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman

University of Liverpool’s proposed redundancies raise serious red flags for academia

The conspiracy theorists who believe ‘traditional masculinity’ is under deliberate, strategic attack

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