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Behind the World Wide Wall: how the anglophone IT industry limits diversity in coding talent
When people have to learn English before they can learn to code, we close the door on a potential wealth of creativity and innovation
You’re probably not Galileo: scientific advance rarely comes from lone, contrarian outsiders
The pseudoscience and vaccine scaremongering from Drs Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein illustrates the importance of intellectual humility, especially when operating outside your field of knowledge
Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
Seaspiracy is just the latest example of a documentary using style and glossy production to hide the fact that it's peddling misinformation
Recovering memories: How the Satanic Panic led to false reports of horrific abuse
The 1980s saw a rise in belief that Satanic ritual abuse was everywhere - however, the real problems were false memories and moral panic
Falsification: Karl Popper’s guide to telling real science from pseudoscience
According to Popper's Falsification, a proposition, theory or hypothesis is only as strong as how far it can resist falsifying evidence.
Coping with Death: Why the 5 stages of grief don’t tell the whole story
The five stages of grief are a overly simplistic representation of the grieving process, and one that was never intended by their creator
Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion
Crystal healing continues to undergo a resurgence in popularity, but when put to the test, believers can't tell the difference between a real crystal or a fake
University of Liverpool’s proposed redundancies raise serious red flags for academia
Plans to make 47 researchers redundant based on potentially unclear and unreasonable metrics have seen the University of Liverpool draw criticism from across the academic community
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