History

Climate Change

Sarah Hearne - 9th August 2021

The belief that the islanders – and not Europeans – destroyed Rapa Nui minimises the devastating impacts of European colonialism.

History

Matt Mills - 10th May 2021

Stories of spontaneous human combustion have been retold since the 1920s, but do those retellings reflect the truth?

Alternative Medicine

David Weinberg - 7th May 2021

When new medical breakthroughs occur, pseudoscientists are often quick to jump on the bandwagon in order to sell their quackery

History

David Mountain - 29th March 2021

As historians continue to deconstruct the myth of the Dark Ages, we shouldn't be so fast to write off the intelligence of our ancestors.

Conspiracy Theories

Mark Horne - 29th January 2021

The Qanon movement regurgiates old antisemitic tropes that echo back to the Illuminati conspiracy theories pushed by Nesta Helen Webster

History

Thiago Vahia Malliagros - 20th January 2021

Adrenochrome has become a central part of the Qanon theory, despite 'Q' never mentioning it; its history is long, and deeply anti-Semitic.

Alternative Medicine

Natália Pasternak, Carlos Orsi - 15th January 2021

Kardecism - an 19th century off-shoot of spiritualism - found fertile ground in Brazil, and grew to wholly undermine trust in science and medicine.

History

Paul Duncan McGarrity - 23rd December 2020

There's plenty to be skeptical about when it comes to the origins of Christmas, but that won't stop me embracing the warmth and magic of it all.

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