Magazine
Volume 26 Issue 2: Susan Blackmore
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SUSAN BLACKMORE
consciousness, altered sates & freedom of speech
THE WAR on ERROR
Debunking for all
NETWORK SCIENCE
Direwolves, dragons, lions & maths
A MYTHIC AGE
Standards of proof reporting the supernatual in the Middle Ages
THE OCKHAM AWARDS 2016
Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams
Volume 25 Issue 3: Eugenie Scott
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Language & Dictionaries
Words are slippery customers and dictionaries are imperfect...so what do they really do
The Skeptic Interview with Eugenie Scott
The recently retired Executive Director of the USA's National Center for Science Education looks at the past and future of pseudo-science in the classroom
Does Science Support Infant Circumcision?
Revisiting the infant circumcision debate with a reply to Brian Morris from The Skeptic 24:4
Do You Remember?
'Sybil' & 'Eve' were famous and remarkable cases of 'multiple personality disorder' - but was it the psychiatrists who were deluded by 'recovered' memories?
Centrefold
Common Mythconceptions - the world's most contagious falsehoods
Plus all the usual columns, puzzles, reviews and features.
Volume 25 Issue 4: The Monster of Lake Champlain
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the MONSTER of LAKE CHAMPLAIN
A Nessie researcher investigates one of the USA's most enduring cryptozoological mysteries
LADDERS, WEBS & DEATH as RECREATION
Thoughts on the philosophical basis of death for entertainment
WIND TURBINE 'SYNDROME'
The unfamiliar trajectories of scientific uncertainty - what's wrong with asking bad questions?
THE OCKHAM AWARDS 2015
Hosted at QED in Manchester
CENTREFOLD
The Chemistry of Ice-Cream
Plus all the usual columns, puzzles, reviews and features.
Volume 25 Issue 2: Steve Jones
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Steve Jones
An interview with geneticist and popular science book author Professor Steve Jones. We talk genes, epidemics and religion
Prickly Passions
Hedgehog aficianado Hugh Warwick discusses that unquantifiable - passion - in the context of science
Occam's Chainsaw
Professor Jason Braithwaite and Hayley Dewe wield Occam's chainsaw to demolish dualist interpretations of the near-death experience
The Skeptical Bobby
Ex-policeman Stevyn Colgan takes another angle on policing
Compound Interest
The Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science
Plus all the usual columns, puzzles and features.
Volume 24 Issue 3: Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou
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Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou
TV's Biblical Scholar talks Bibles and beliefs
Who won the 'Ockhams'?
Award Night at QED 2013
The Sleep Paralysis Project
The quintessential uncanny experience, rendered into art
Uncertainty
A GP explores certainty and statistics in medicine
Crispian Jago's
Conspiracy Theory Flowchart
Behaving Like Animals?
Frans de Waal on the origins of human ethics
Reflections of the Divine
The human mind and the seeds of spirituality
Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams.
Volume 24 Issue 4: Prof. Elizabeth Loftus
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Features
Prof. Elizabeth Loftus
Malleable memories and misinformation's ground-breaking psychologist
The 'Mystical-Type' Experience
What about when it happens to an atheist?
Infant Circumcision
Revisited: now, the case 'for'
Crispian Jago's
Venn diagram of irrational nonsense
Saint-Making
Nelson Jones finds the raw materials
UFOs
Cognitive Dissonance and Belief
Plus all the regular features, reviews and columns from Chris French, Wendy Grossman, Michael Heap, Mark Duwe and Mark Williams.
Volume 24 Issue 2: Patrick Moore
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Flying Saucers From Moore’s?
Was our most famous TV astronomer also a practical joker? On the cover, Steuart Campbell and Christopher Allan mark the recent passing of Patrick Moore.
Is your myth up for renewal this month?
Use the handy chart to sign up for your new one with Crispian Jago's latest centrefold.
Beautiful Science
Danny Rees looks at the doomed historical attempts to quantify human allure.
The App-aritions are Coming
Hayley Stevens goes ghost-hunting with a smartphone.
The First Cut
Marianne Baker examines our attitudes to circumcision and wonders if we have a blind spot with male genital mutilation.
Sett Theory
Philip Stott tells us how culling badgers is nearly impossible.
Does stress make you fat?
Alexandra Johnstone and John Menzies pick out the science from the tabloid headlines.
The Psychology of Ghosts and Hauntings
In the latest in our Science of the Supernatural series Prof Chris French looks at Factors that might lead people to believe they had seen a ghost.