Environmentalism
How to spot and avoid greenwashing and misleading eco claims
Eco-friendly consumerism is big business, which is why companies engage in deceptive greenwashing marketing to fool us into thinking our purchases are kind to the planet
Greenwashing: The dark side of the sustainable fashion industry
With the rise of conscious capitalism, companies are profiting through greenwashing, leaving consumers at risk of deception.
Matt Le Tissier talks to The Skeptic about Covid, vaccines, 15-minute cities and climate change
The Skeptic editor, Michael Marshall, sat down with former footballer Matt Le Tissier to ask why he has become increasingly vocal in his support for conspiracy theories
The fifth horseman: environmental determinism rides again in ‘An Inconvenient Apocalypse’
‘An Inconvenient Apocalypse’ predicts an inevitable, unavoidable environmental collapse - a doomist view that discounts our ability to change our future
15 minute cities: the latest big bad of the conspiracy theory ecosystem
Why did 15 minute cities go from a niche town planning proposal to a full-blown paranoia? Because existing conspiracist networks needed their next big fear
Tree planting schemes look fantastic on paper, but they won’t save us from climate change
Mass tree planting schemes are a simple and obvious way to sequester carbon and fight climate change. The only problem is, they almost certainly won't work.
Given his life-long promotion of pseudoscience, what threat will Charles III pose to skepticism?
As head of state, will Charles realise his life-long lobbying for alternative medicine is over, or will he use his newfound power to evade transparency?
When it comes to conservation, cat-fights only hurt our communication efforts
Turning conservation efforts into a cat-versus-bird 'war' only serves to divide people who would otherwise unite around the importance of animal welfare