Paranormal

Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs and skeptical investigations; psychics, supernatural beliefs and folklore.

Health

Paging Dr Superstitious: Why Singaporean medics believe steamed buns are bad luck

Bruce Phang -
Doctors in Asia believing it's bad luck to eat steamed buns during a shift shows that even the medically minded are susceptible to superstition
Chiropractic

A psychic child bride and ghostly inspiration: the invention of chiropractic

Michael Marshall -
Daniel David Palmer, the inventor of chiropractic, claimed his movement was inspired by spiritual communication with the ghost of a doctor
Psychics

The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers

Michael Marshall -
The Telepathy Tapes podcast claims non-verbal children have remarkable supernatural powers, based on flawed experiments and unconstrained belief
Moral Panics

The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread

Dave Hahn -
The New Jersey drone scare is a perfect case study in how panics seize on oddities and unfounded speculation in order to spread fear
UFOs

Droning on: shedding a skeptical light on the New Jersey UAP panic

Nick Garratt -
At the end of last year, people began to report mysterious 'UAP' lights above the skies of New Jersey - though the real cause was far more human than alien
Media

When it comes to science, the standard has to be truth and accuracy – not false balance

Hayley Stevens -
When it comes to matters of science, giving equal time to promoters of misinformation might make for 'good TV', but it is wholly irresponsible
Ghosts

The Estes method is an update to the ghost hunter’s Spirit Box, with all the same flaws

Hayley Stevens -
A modern take on the Spirit Box, the Estes Method is similarly doomed to fail, as long as ghost hunters continue to put their biases ahead of the science
Ancient Aliens

The ‘Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis’ that wants us to believe aliens have always been among us

Dave Hahn -
In order to answer difficult questions about UAPs, the Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis posits that the aliens were always among us, based on the flimsiest of evidence
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