Paranormal

Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs and skeptical investigations; psychics, supernatural beliefs and folklore.

Hilary Evans Paranormal Library

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

Deborah Hyde - 9th April 2021

This cover of pulp magazine 'Startling Stories' from 1944 features a reanimated cadaver - a zombie, traceable to Haitian folklore

Psychics

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

Chris French - 11th March 2021

Given that psychics aren't actually performing paranormal feats, is it fair to separate them into the deceitful and the deluded?

Ancient Aliens

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

Mark Horne - 24th February 2021

By celebrating the long-debunked claims of Erich von Däniken, Blackpool's new entertainment park perpetuates deeply racist assumptions

QAnon

When predictions fail: UFO cults, QAnon and cognitive dissonance

Chris French - 3rd February 2021

When their predictions don't come true, cults are faced with a choice: accept reality, or rationalise the failure. Which road will Qanon take?

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

Alternative Medicine

Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 15th January 2021

Kardecism - an 19th century off-shoot of spiritualism - found fertile ground in Brazil, and grew to wholly undermine trust in science and medicine.

Ghosts

Have we seen the last of the vanishing phantom hitchhiker?

Deborah Hyde - 13th January 2021

Familiarity and caution may have killed off the story of the phantom hitchhiker, but our draw towards creepy tales will always find an outlet.

UFOs

Is the US government in contact with an alien “galactic federation”?

Chris French - 11th January 2021

Haim Eshed, former head of Israel’s Defense Ministry, claims aliens are working with the US government. I'd like to see some evidence.

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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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