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Navel glazing: the beauty fad of applying castor oil to the belly button
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11th June 2025
Alternative Medicine
My first experience at a Holistic Health and Healing Expo
Brian Seiler
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30th May 2025
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Obstetric emergencies are no place for alternative medicine
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Melania Amorim
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27th May 2025
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Latest studies map conspiracy theories in Brazil and Latin America
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Prof. Ernst’s Research Trustworthy Index, and the ‘Alternative Medicine Hall of Fame’
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Hair analysis and bioresonance food sensitivity tests are simply junk science
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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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Seed oils: how a panic over cooking fats is lubricating the alt-right pipeline
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21st May 2025
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Latest studies map conspiracy theories in Brazil and Latin America
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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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Michael Marshall
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Are there really 1.4 billion Catholics around the world?
Mark Horne
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27th June 2025
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Love bombs and fuzzy feelings: Mormon recruiting techniques haven’t changed
Tim Jokl
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25th June 2025
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From the archives: Smith and Blackburn – the story of a great hoax
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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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The virus metaphor for misinformation is flawed, and can distract us from solutions
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18th June 2025
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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
The Satanic Panic of the 1980s showed we don't actually need a real Satan - well-meaning, deluded and fervent people will do His work for Him.
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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
The data collected in the famous double-blind test of Indian astrology in 2008 allows us to put the other basic astrological principles to the test
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
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Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter
Matt Mills
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10th May 2021
Stories of spontaneous human combustion have been retold since the 1920s, but do those retellings reflect the truth?
Cryptozoology
What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?
David Mountain
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23rd April 2021
The connection between three legendary paranormal sightings tells us a lot about why we see what isn't there... and miss what's really there
Hilary Evans Paranormal Library
‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman
Deborah Hyde
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9th April 2021
This cover of pulp magazine 'Startling Stories' from 1944 features a reanimated cadaver - a zombie, traceable to Haitian folklore
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Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?
Chris French
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11th March 2021
Given that psychics aren't actually performing paranormal feats, is it fair to separate them into the deceitful and the deluded?
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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
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