Science

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Climate Change

Green rapture: Sarah Wilson’s best-selling guide to the apocalypse for the worried well

Ted Lefroy -
Sarah Wilson's best-seller 'I Eat The Stars’ posits that societal collapse is inevitable - but her evidence is weak, and her arguments ideological and highly-selective.
Technology

Adult movies were not the reason Betamax really lost the video wars

Mike Hall -
According to a popular myth, Betamax lost out to VHS because of adult content - in reality, it was down to tape length, and licensing.
History

The Nobel Prize-winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive

Tom Williamson -
History is replete with scientists whose brilliance won them a Nobel Prize – only to go on to tarnish their legacy by promoting quackery and pseudoscience.
Technology

AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich

Graeme Morledge -
Regulating the Industrial Revolution didn't stifle innovation, it ensured technology served the people – regulating Big Tech and AI can do the same today.
Alternative Medicine

The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal

Edzard Ernst -
Prior to its closure, the journal of Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retracted hundreds of papers due to concerns over their validity.
Technology

In the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans

Richard Glover -
Far from being capable of objective judgements, AI and machine learning replicate the biases and prejudices of the very human data they're trained on.
Parapsychology

Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience

Hj Hornbeck -
Evaluating claims of ESP and other psi abilities can provide the perfect opportunity to grapple with some counterintuitive, but incredibly important, maths.
Science

Smoke and mirrors: violent media, cigarettes, and shaky statistics

Jim Cliff -
Is violent media as closely linked to aggression as smoking is to lung cancer? Only if you take at face value heavily cherry-picked research.
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