Society

When skepticism collides with human experience. The societal implications of scientific skepticism.

Psychology

Comparing misinformation to a virus is neither accurate nor useful in preventing its spread

Ariana Modirrousta-Galian, Phil Higham, Tina Seabrooke - 13th September 2024

Portraying misinformation as a virus assumes we're all equally susceptible, and risks distracting us from solutions to the problem it poses

Moral Panics

The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK

Michael Marshall - 9th September 2024

"Woman arrested for praying" is the latest in a string of legal cases used by US conservative Christian organisations to fight against progress in the UK

Society

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

Shao Zihang - 6th September 2024

Gacha video games - where players pay real money for a chance at winning digital items - are a poorly regulated space that can become as exploitative as gambling

Politics

JD Vance is right – for anti-intellectuals like him, the professors are the enemy

Edzard Ernst - 4th September 2024

Professors seek the truth, and the truth is something that politicians like JD Vance fear, because it can reveal their agenda as being fascist.

Philosophy

A search for meming: fighting the mind-virus virus

Blake Smith - 2nd September 2024

The meme of religion as a "mind virus" oversimplifies how we come to our beliefs, and actively harms our attempts to encourage people to question dogma

Science

Racism is a real phenomenon, but that doesn’t mean that the idea of “biological race” is real

Natália Pasternak - 23rd August 2024

Just because some people will discriminate against others due to their appearance and racial identity, that doesn't make the notion of 'biological race' true.

Conspiracy Theories