Society

Buried deep in Liverpool's business district stands the city's surprisingly-recent tributes to the losing side of the US Civil War - complete with plaques celebrating the confederacy

As viral videos claimed that the vaccinated were dying in great number due to vaccine-caused blood clots, antivax communities adopted a new label for themselves: "purebloods"

We all like to think we're critical thinkers, and that our opponents aren't, but in order to reach people we have to be open to our own positions being challenged, too

Conspiracy theories about the Treaty of Lausanne and its implications for Turkish sovereignty are common in Turkey, and are being weaponised by cynical political movements

Twenty years after Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate", we should be wary of those who make claims about innate traits that separate nature from nurture

TV crime shows have made us all very aware of forensic analysis of hair, DNA samples and fingerprints - but do we overstate its usefulness?

While the term 'skeptic' has its uses in building communities, it's important that we don't let the label excuse us from the hard work of living up to it

Daryl Bem's precognition studies made worldwide headlines in 2011 - yet it's easy to predict proof Bem's work was flawed won't get the same attention