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Alternative Medicine

Conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and alt-med quackery put our pets in harm’s way

Danny Chambers - 28th September 2020

Vet Danny Chambers highlights how the aggressive promotion of alternative therapies to prevent and treat animal diseases has become widespread.

Covid-19

‘Mask Mouth’: a real dental phenomenon, or merely a confection?

Shaun Sellars - 23rd September 2020

Dentist Shaun Sellars looks at recent reports of facemasks causing a new dental phenomenon known as 'mask mouth'.

Covid-19

Hydroxychloroquine: when bad science goes mainstream

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 4th September 2020

As covid-19 spreads across Brazil, Natalia Pasternak and Carlos Orsi highlight how one purported miracle cure found friends in very high places.

Skepticism

Coronavirus, conspiracy, challenges and compassion

Michael Marshall - 3rd September 2020

Our new editor Michael Marshall talks about the challenge of countering coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theory, and why compassion is such an important aspect of skepticism.

Nutrition

COVID-19 nutrition myths

Pixie Turner - 3rd September 2020

Registered nutritionist Pixie Turner takes a look at some of the most common COVID-19 nutritional myths to arise during the pandemic.

Alternative Medicine

Dying to believe: how Gerson therapy claims jeopardise cancer patients

Michael Marshall - 14th November 2017

Michael Marshall reports from a "cancer cure" seminar where patients were explicitly told to give up their chemotherapy in favour of disproven treatments.

Health

Too Much Medicine?

Michael Heap - 30th July 2017

Back in 1990 I wrote a paper for this magazine entitled Surely there is something in it: The social psychology of healing in which...

Health

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 054

6th March 2026

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