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

Skepticism

Reform UK win 2025 Rusty Razor award for worst pseudoscience of the year

Michael Marshall -
Nigel Farage's political party, Reform UK, has been named The Skeptic's 'Rusty Razor' award winner for worst pseudoscience of 2025
Skepticism

Dr Cyriac Abby Philips wins 2025 Skeptical Activism Ockham award

Michael Marshall -
Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, an Indian doctor who exposes the harms of alternative medicine, wins the 2025 Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism.
Nutrition

Unpacking the fear and panic around ultra-processed foods

Maeve Hanan -
Scaremongering claims about ultra-processed food fill make for eye-catching media headlines - but is fear of the dreaded UPF really evidence-based?
Archive

From the archives: The medium is not the message – fighting crime with psychics

Terry Sanderson -
From the archives in 1992, The Freethinker's Terry Sanderson examines claims that psychics were used to solve crimes.
Archive

From the archives: Who Invented the Loch Ness Monster?

Steuart Campbell -
From the archives in 1992, science writer and author Steuart Campbell goes in search of the origin of the Loch Ness legend.
Conspiracy Theories

The sinking of the Titanic wasn’t a crafty insurance con, it was a real tragedy

Mike Hall -
Theories that the Titanic never sank, and that it was switched for another ship as part of an insurance con, ignore irrefutable counter-evidence
Media

Wendy Grossman remembers the late TV presenter John Stapleton

Wendy M. Grossman -
After the death of TV presenter John Stapleton, former editor of The Skeptic Wendy Grossman reflects on meeting Stapleton on air in 1992
Politics

Beware the groups who use edge cases and social norms to curtail free speech

Michael Marshall -
Charlie Kirk was a poster boy for a movement that pays lip service to the importance of free speech while bullying and intimidating critics into silence
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