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.
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.
We don't have to rewrite Greek history to centre African influences in order to argue that a fictional character like Helen of Troy could be played by a black actor.
From Viking horns and dirty serfs to the plucky underdog role of Britain in World War II, history is replete with oft-repeated – but factually incorrect – myths.
Somewhat forgotten in skeptical history, Richard Carlile may be the first identified atheist in print, having been tried for blasphemy for "The Age of Reason"
