Media
The Outbrain drain: why newspaper sites have run thousands of scam ads
The news media is in an income crisis, but the solution cannot be for newspapers to lend their reputations to scams and fakers
Time Team’s archaeologists showed us how experts can ruthlessly unpick a hoax
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
From scam product ads to conspiracy theories, misinformation always adapts to survive
The techniques developed by affiliate marketers to spread scam products mirrors the way in which conspiracy theories nimbly adapt to spread misinformation
Technophobia: Facebook and computers cause cancer; typewriters apparently don’t
From the archives in 2011, Mark Williams looks at media scaremongering around technology being to blame for social ills
Levity on the Web: how the internet facilitates pseudoscience – and skepticism
From the archives, Steve Donnelly reflects on the role of the internet in spreading and promoting pseudoscience - and allowing skeptics to expose it
Shirley Ghostman and me
From time to time I get contacted by TV shows wanting a skeptic to spar against a psychic. This time a producer from Tiger Aspect wanted me for a show they were doing on psychics for BBC2.
From the archives: Nick Pullar – Shirley Ghostman and me
From the archives in 2005, Nick Pullar recollects his run with the mysterious and bewildering TV psychic, Shirley Ghostman
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