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Kind Patches almost certainly aren’t the answer to ADHD focus issues
Alice Howarth
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2nd July 2025
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Navel glazing: the beauty fad of applying castor oil to the belly button
Alice Howarth
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My first experience at a Holistic Health and Healing Expo
Brian Seiler
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Obstetric emergencies are no place for alternative medicine
André Bacchi
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Latest studies map conspiracy theories in Brazil and Latin America
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Kind Patches almost certainly aren’t the answer to ADHD focus issues
Alice Howarth
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2nd July 2025
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Hair analysis and bioresonance food sensitivity tests are simply junk science
Brian Eggo
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20th June 2025
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Facts won’t change minds about animal medicine, so should we bother trying?
Robyn Lowe
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2nd June 2025
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Obstetric emergencies are no place for alternative medicine
André Bacchi
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27th May 2025
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Seed oils: how a panic over cooking fats is lubricating the alt-right pipeline
Alice Howarth
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21st May 2025
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Studying the genetics of mediumship is the new Tooth Fairy science
Marcelo Yamashita
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Carlos Orsi
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9th June 2025
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Algorithmic Astrology: the digital age of pseudoscience
Hayley Stevens
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19th May 2025
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The Truth of Skinwalker Ranch… probably won’t shock you
Nick Garratt
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11th April 2025
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A brief history of The Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit
Chris French
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26th March 2025
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Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola
Michael Marshall
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19th March 2025
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‘Jewtlantis’ isn’t a utopian vision – it is AI slop with an antisemitic tinge
Aaron Rabinowitz
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23rd May 2025
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Latest studies map conspiracy theories in Brazil and Latin America
Cesar Baima
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12th May 2025
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The Tartarian conspiracy: a silly pseudo-archaeology for our serious times
Dave Hahn
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4th April 2025
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Who runs the world? According to conspiracy theorists, it’s Beyoncé
Pai Jing Wen
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17th March 2025
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The conspiracy-adjacent politicians finding allies in Sovereign Citizens
Michael Marshall
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From sacred signs to golden urns: The oddities of Dalai Lama Succession
Gabriel Andrade
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4th July 2025
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Social media’s mental health advice is no substitute for therapy
Celine Ong
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3rd July 2025
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From the archives: Why don’t creationists talk about sex?
Donald Rooum
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Are there really 1.4 billion Catholics around the world?
Mark Horne
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Nice guys don’t ‘finish last’ – altruism has been a key driver in our social evolution
Daniel Aaron Levy
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30th June 2025
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The window of opportunity against climate denialism in Brazil and Latin America
Cesar Baima
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23rd June 2025
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Thrifting isn’t the solution to the climate crisis – we need to change our behaviours
Ananya Anand
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19th June 2025
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The virus metaphor for misinformation is flawed, and can distract us from solutions
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18th June 2025
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Ghosts
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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
Covid-19
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
Archive
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.
Archive
The Psychological Reality of Hauntings and Poltergeists – Part I: An Initial Model
James Houran
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Rense Lange
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1st July 2002
In the first of a two-part article from the archive, Rense Lange and James Houran argue that ghostly outbreaks and hauntings can tell us more about the living than the dead.
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