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Acupuncture
As a skeptic and a dentist, I jumped at the chance to take a dental acupuncturist course
Shaun Sellars
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28th July 2021
Alternative Medicine
The UK’s plan to please India by promoting Ayurvedic medicine puts politics ahead of science
Edzard Ernst
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21st July 2021
Alternative Medicine
Paul McCartney and The Bates Method of eyesight restoration
Mark Horne
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7th July 2021
Alternative Medicine
Despite what Prince Charles thinks, homeopathy is not the answer to antibiotic resistance
Edzard Ernst
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4th June 2021
Alternative Medicine
“Fake Medicine”: Dr Brad McKay skilfully takes apart health advice from Dr Google
Edzard Ernst
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21st May 2021
Alternative Medicine
What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery
David Weinberg
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7th May 2021
Alternative Medicine
Brazil’s bogus “Covid kit” represents a failure of private healthcare regulation
Natália Pasternak
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26th April 2021
Alternative Medicine
Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion
Chris French
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21st April 2021
Alternative Medicine
How alternative medicine radicalises believers into Qanon conspiracy theories
Dave Hahn
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14th April 2021
Alternative Medicine
Should we be skeptical of homeopathy research conducted in India? A look at the evidence
Edzard Ernst
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12th April 2021
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Much ado about nothing: evidence of the ‘powerful placebo’ is far from convincing
Mike Hall
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30th July 2021
Covid-19
Why I called for the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Bolsanaro over our Covid crisis
Natália Pasternak
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26th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Inside the White Rose: The Covid conspiracy graffiti group operating on your doorstep
Michael Marshall
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19th July 2021
Covid-19
The JAMA ‘child mask’ research is fatally flawed – masks don’t cause “dangerous CO2 levels”
Danny Bradley
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16th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
Matthew Browne
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Chris Kavanagh
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23rd June 2021
Health
Erectile difficulties? The P-Shot injection into your penis is not the solution you’re looking for
Alice Howarth
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21st June 2021
Covid-19
How the ‘Lockdown Sceptics’ misquote research in their quest to appear scientific
Danny Bradley
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11th June 2021
Covid-19
Brazil’s COVID-19 inquiry puts pseudoscience on trial
Natália Pasternak
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9th June 2021
Chemtrails
From chemtrails to COVID-19, Naomi Wolf’s prolific promotion of pseudoscience
Mark Horne
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7th June 2021
Covid-19
Young people in Singapore may be vaccine hesitant, but we’ll get vaccinated to protect others
Mathilda Ng
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3rd June 2021
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The much-hyped UAP report’s lack of substance will do little to deter avid UFO believers
Nigel Watson
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23rd July 2021
Ghosts
Pulau Tekong: An island of ghosts, and the military men who train there
Ishan Singh
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15th July 2021
Paranormal
Why Millennials and Gen Z are turning to tarot as a form of “therapy”
Nandini Nair
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8th July 2021
Paranormal
The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America
Deborah Hyde
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28th June 2021
Astrology
When put to the test, the predictive powers of Indian astrology simply don’t hold up
Nagesh Rajopadhye
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18th June 2021
Ghosts
The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
Deborah Hyde
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24th May 2021
History
Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
Matt Mills
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10th May 2021
Cryptozoology
What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?
David Mountain
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23rd April 2021
Hilary Evans Paranormal Library
‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman
Deborah Hyde
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9th April 2021
Psychics
Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?
Chris French
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11th March 2021
Conspiracy
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9/11
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Inside the White Rose: The Covid conspiracy graffiti group operating on your doorstep
Michael Marshall
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19th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
When it comes to conspiracy theories, even the small stuff matters
Dave Hahn
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14th July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Curbing misinformation begins with having more patience with the older generation
Ethel Lim
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1st July 2021
Conspiracy Theories
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
Matthew Browne
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Chris Kavanagh
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23rd June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
BTS = Bow to Satan? How Satanic, Illuminati conspiracies travelled from West to East
Marnell Esmilla
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17th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The continuation of QAnon: the eternal sunshine of an election that never ended
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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16th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Talking with believers helps us understand the emotional appeal of conspiracy theories
Kang Le Yeo
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10th June 2021
Chemtrails
From chemtrails to COVID-19, Naomi Wolf’s prolific promotion of pseudoscience
Mark Horne
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7th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
The Great Reset: political pipe dream, or sinister New World Order plot?
Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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14th May 2021
Conspiracy Theories
Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience
Mark Horne
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5th May 2021
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Yishun: the source of Singapore’s very own “Florida Man” memes
Nicholas Tan Wee Xiong
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29th July 2021
Covid-19
Why I called for the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Bolsanaro over our Covid crisis
Natália Pasternak
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26th July 2021
Society
Going cashless may be the future, but we can’t afford to leave vulnerable people behind
Alif Yahya
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22nd July 2021
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Reinventing the Past: Why rely on orthodox historical study when you can invent your own?
Rachel Carthy
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20th July 2021
Ghosts
Pulau Tekong: An island of ghosts, and the military men who train there
Ishan Singh
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15th July 2021
Society
Counterweight, and the continued enabling of bad faith ‘anti-woke’ actors
Aaron Rabinowitz
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5th July 2021
Science
Recovering memories: Could the Satanic Panic happen again?
Chris French
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2nd July 2021
Society
10 songs that show there’s space for skepticism in the music industry
Brian Eggo
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30th June 2021
Paranormal
The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America
Deborah Hyde
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28th June 2021
Science
Behind the World Wide Wall: how the anglophone IT industry limits diversity in coding talent
Akshi Narang
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24th June 2021
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Much ado about nothing: evidence of the ‘powerful placebo’ is far from convincing
Mike Hall
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30th July 2021
Psychology
Psychoanalysis: Science or Pseudoscience? Examining the status of Freudian theory
Anna Järvinen
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27th July 2021
Society
Going cashless may be the future, but we can’t afford to leave vulnerable people behind
Alif Yahya
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22nd July 2021
Science
iNaturalist’s flaws leave people with a false impression of the world around them
Sarah Hearne
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12th July 2021
Science
Darling, you smell lovely: what role does body odour play in dating?
Ginny Smith
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9th July 2021
Science
Recovering memories: Could the Satanic Panic happen again?
Chris French
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2nd July 2021
Paranormal
The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America
Deborah Hyde
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28th June 2021
Science
Dodgy diagrams in ads matter, if we want people to understand the value of chemistry
Kat Day
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25th June 2021
Science
Behind the World Wide Wall: how the anglophone IT industry limits diversity in coding talent
Akshi Narang
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24th June 2021
Conspiracy Theories
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
Matthew Browne
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Chris Kavanagh
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23rd June 2021
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Blackpool’s ‘Chariots of the Gods’ park is built on racist assumptions about the past
Mark Horne
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24th February 2021
By celebrating the long-debunked claims of Erich von Däniken, Blackpool's new entertainment park perpetuates deeply racist assumptions
Ancient Aliens
The Atacama mummy: putting together the pieces of an “Archaeology bombshell”
Paul Duncan McGarrity
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14th September 2020
While the Daily Express recently declared mummified remains found in the Atacama Desert to be an "Archaeology bombshell", Archaeologist Paul Duncan McGarrity offers an alternate explanation.
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