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From growing basil to curing disease, pseuodscientists find support in the Qu’ran
Stefano Bigliardi
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22nd July 2026
Alternative Medicine
Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth
Michael Marshall
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24th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist
Mauro Proença
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15th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
Edzard Ernst
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5th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
André Bacchi
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1st June 2026
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Get a longer little doggy: can we really double our dog’s lifespan?
Robyn Lowe
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20th July 2026
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The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK
Brian Eggo
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26th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth
Michael Marshall
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24th June 2026
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Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation
Dayton Murphy
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10th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
André Bacchi
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1st June 2026
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Extraordinary claims, modest evidence: reincarnation, and the limits of parapsychology
Gabriel Andrade
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27th July 2026
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The underwhelming reality of the White House’s own ‘Disclosure Day’
Dave Hahn
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17th July 2026
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Identifying the mysterious and legendary ground shark of the Timor Sea
Karl Brandt
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13th July 2026
Paranormal
Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test
Mike Hall
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8th June 2026
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Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
Hj Hornbeck
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20th May 2026
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The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK
Brian Eggo
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26th June 2026
Conspiracy Theories
Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
Aaron Rabinowitz
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3rd June 2026
Conspiracy Theories
Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole
Michael Marshall
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29th May 2026
Conspiracy Theories
Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan
Michael Marshall
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10th April 2026
Conspiracy Theories
The Italian electoral abstention, and the self-fulfilling conspiracy theory plot
Allegra Brachini
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25th March 2026
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We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation
Michael Marshall
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24th July 2026
Alternative Medicine
From growing basil to curing disease, pseuodscientists find support in the Qu’ran
Stefano Bigliardi
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22nd July 2026
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Is the origin of government itself actually just a conspiracy to oppress us?
Mark Horne
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15th July 2026
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Good skin, good girl: the subtle misogyny of the ‘no make-up’ look
Megan Tan Shu En
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10th July 2026
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Ted Lefroy
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8th July 2026
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Green rapture: Sarah Wilson’s best-selling guide to the apocalypse for the worried well
Ted Lefroy
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8th July 2026
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Adult movies were not the reason Betamax really lost the video wars
Mike Hall
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6th July 2026
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive
Tom Williamson
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22nd June 2026
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AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich
Graeme Morledge
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17th June 2026
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The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
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Pulau Tekong: An island of ghosts, and the military men who train there
Ishan Singh
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15th July 2021
While Pulau Tekong's hauntings and spooky occurrences may not be real, the impressions they make on the young military recruits who train there are very real
Ghosts
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
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
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