Media

Media

Behind the slick production values of “The Reason I Jump”, lies Facilitated Communication

Janyce Boynton -
The documentary "The Reason I Jump" claims to offer insight into the inner lives of autistic people, but it is based on a pseudoscientific communication technique
Media

Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries

Sarah Hearne -
Seaspiracy is just the latest example of a documentary using style and glossy production to hide the fact that it's peddling misinformation
Media

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

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

Technophobia: Facebook and computers cause cancer; typewriters apparently don’t

Mark Williams -
From the archives in 2011, Mark Williams looks at media scaremongering around technology being to blame for social ills
Archive

Levity on the Web: how the internet facilitates pseudoscience – and skepticism

Steve Donnelly -
From the archives, Steve Donnelly reflects on the role of the internet in spreading and promoting pseudoscience - and allowing skeptics to expose it
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