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When shows like Pod Save America run pseudoscience ads, they undermine their credibility

Michael Marshall - 22nd February 2021

Podcast hosts have a real intimacy with their listeners - that trust is eroded when they advertise snake oil supplements and pseudoscience

Alternative Medicine

The Outbrain drain: why newspaper sites have run thousands of scam ads

Michael Marshall - 4th January 2021

The news media is in an income crisis, but the solution cannot be for newspapers to lend their reputations to scams and fakers

History

Time Team’s archaeologists showed us how experts can ruthlessly unpick a hoax

Paul Duncan McGarrity - 27th November 2020

Channel 4's archaeology show Time Team's quiet destruction of a would-be hoaxer was a glorious illustration of the power of calm, patient expertise

Conspiracy Theories

From scam product ads to conspiracy theories, misinformation always adapts to survive

Michael Marshall - 18th November 2020

The techniques developed by affiliate marketers to spread scam products mirrors the way in which conspiracy theories nimbly adapt to spread misinformation

What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery

Brazil’s bogus “Covid kit” represents a failure of private healthcare regulation

Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion

How alternative medicine radicalises believers into Qanon conspiracy theories

Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is absolutely not the ‘third leading cause of death’

Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience

Not all dentists promote evidence-based treatments – four red-flag signs to look out for

Our guide to the pseudoscience promoters aiming to be the next mayor of London

Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter

What links the Flatwoods Monster, the Kelly–Hopkinsville alien encounter, and Mothman?

‘Startling Stories’, illustrating ‘Strangers on the Heights’ by Manly Wade Wellman

Psychics and mediums: Mad, bad, or dangerous to know?

The Great Reset: political pipe dream, or sinister New World Order plot?

Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience

Our guide to the pseudoscience promoters aiming to be the next mayor of London

Bill Cooper: the conspiracy theorist who links afrofuturist “Hoteps” with Alex Jones

The Great Reset: political pipe dream, or sinister New World Order plot?

Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is absolutely not the ‘third leading cause of death’

Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter

What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery

Romance in the stones? The power of crystals vs the power of suggestion

University of Liverpool’s proposed redundancies raise serious red flags for academia

The ‘scientist as lone genius’ is a myth that obscures real stories of scientific discovery

Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white

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The Great Reset: political pipe dream, or sinister New World Order plot?

Jordan Peterson is wrong: medical error is absolutely not the ‘third leading cause of death’

Spontaneous Human Combustion: The truth behind the myth of Mary Carpenter

What William Radam’s “Microbe Killer” can teach us about modern stem cell quackery

Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience

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