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If pseudoscience actually worked, scientists would be first in line to profit
Slava Amanatski
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8th December 2025
Alternative Medicine
From the archives: the ‘Synchro-Energiser’ – a pseudoscientific panacea?
Michael Heap
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4th November 2025
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27th October 2025
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Why is Tesco’s free recipe magazine telling me about the health benefits of sea moss?
Alice Howarth
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25th September 2025
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Preventing British Supplements’ health claims isn’t an infringement of free speech
Michael Marshall
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8th September 2025
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Physiotherapy is almost as pseudoscientific as osteopathy and chiropractic
Paul Ingraham
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11th December 2025
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Is the 10,000 steps goal a fitness fact or merely a marketing myth?
Elissar Gerges
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10th December 2025
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Why do people ignore evidence, and what actually changes minds?
Zion Lights
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5th December 2025
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How ultra-processed food fear can fuel anxiety and disordered eating
Maeve Hanan
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28th November 2025
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Polylaminin: a miracle cure for spinal injuries, or another media hype story?
Marcelo Yamashita
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10th November 2025
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Why I don’t believe in… Bigfoot
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19th December 2025
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If pseudoscience actually worked, scientists would be first in line to profit
Slava Amanatski
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8th December 2025
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The BBC’s NightWatch is a control group for Ghost Hunting TV
Hayley Stevens
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19th November 2025
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A forgotten sceptic: William M. Knox, the one-eyed atheist of Belfast
Madeleine Goodall
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17th November 2025
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How word games and folk etymology feed into fringe beliefs
Mark Horne
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15th December 2025
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Why do people ignore evidence, and what actually changes minds?
Zion Lights
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5th December 2025
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Phantom Time Hypothesis – the supposedly ‘missing’ fortnight in 1752
Mike Hall
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5th November 2025
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Predictive Programming: why conspiracists scour pop culture for sinister clues
Dave Hahn
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29th October 2025
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The sinking of the Titanic wasn’t a crafty insurance con, it was a real tragedy
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13th October 2025
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12th December 2025
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4th December 2025
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27th November 2025
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What little you know about Jack the Ripper’s victims is almost certainly wrong
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18th December 2025
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In a culture of materialism, The Emperor’s New Clothes have designer labels
Daniel Aaron Levy
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17th December 2025
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Is the 10,000 steps goal a fitness fact or merely a marketing myth?
Elissar Gerges
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10th December 2025
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The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
Deborah Hyde
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24th May 2021
The Battersea Poltergeist demonstrates how supposedly supernatural phenomena need attention and validation to thrive
Ghosts
Have we seen the last of the vanishing phantom hitchhiker?
Deborah Hyde
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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.
Ghosts
Ghosts, curses and werewolves: archaeologists see human belief up close
Paul Duncan McGarrity
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30th October 2020
Dealing with human remains teaches us we don't have to share somebody's belief to respect them - as long as those beliefs aren't causing harm
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Has the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increase in ghostly encounters?
Chris French
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15th October 2020
With pandemic-related anxiety and stress causing an increase in experience of sleep paralysis, we may well see an uptick in paranormal belief.
Ghosts
Electrician sheds light on viral Birmingham ghost mystery
Hayley Stevens
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3rd September 2020
Hayley Stevens explains how the recent ghost captured on a Birmingham CCTV camera may have a far more mundane explanation.
Ghosts
Do ghosts exist? If not, why do we see them?
Deborah Hyde
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4th February 2018
This is the deceptively simple question I ask at the beginning of every episode of the Haunted podcast. The show features ghost stories that...
Archive
From the archives: Galileo’s Doughnuts – The day I saw a ghost
Mark Duwe
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20th April 2012
From the archives in 2012, Mark Duwe recounts the day he felt sure he saw a ghost... and what he may have actually seen
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The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists – Part II: An Advanced Model
James Houran
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Rense Lange
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4th October 2002
From the archives, Rense Lange and James Houran propose a more advanced model of the psychological processes underlying hauntings and poltergeists.
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