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

Society

The Cost of Loving: falling birthrates, and the increased role of personal choice in procreation

Deborah Hyde - 4th July 2022

Jordan Peterson believes falling birthrates are part of a self-hating environmentalist genocide, but it's more likely that people are having fewer babies out of personal choice

Cryptozoology

Could Loch Ness Monster sightings really be attributed to an aroused whale penis?

Hayley Stevens - 22nd June 2022

Viral posts claimed that sightings of the Loch Ness Monster were actually just aroused whale penises, but this eye-catching explanation simply doesn't fit the facts

Conspiracy Theories

Nikola Tesla and the cult of the mysterious genius

Mark Horne - 20th June 2022

In the decades since his death, Nikola Tesla has taken on a mythical status among his devoted followers, who attribute to him all manner of groundbreaking - and ultimately suppressed - inventions

Skepticism

Science can be a candle in the dark, as long as you’re not actively trying to avoid the light

David Weinberg - 15th June 2022

When people become over-invested in their beliefs, they can develop intellectual photophobia: an active resistence to any evidence that might shed uncomfortable light

Paranormal

Elizabethan Skepticism: How “A Discoverie of Witchcraft” pushed back against a moral panic

Mark Horne - 8th June 2022

While still a product of it's time, Reginald Scot's "A Discoverie of Witchcraft" in 1584 offered common-sense challenges to the moral panic around witchcraft

David Langford’s skeptical ‘Skrapbook’

David Langford - 7th June 2022

From the archives, a sneak peak into David Langford’s unique archive of sceptical scraps...

Health

Abortion isn’t murder – despite their rhetoric, even the American religious right know it

Gabriel Andrade - 1st June 2022

It is abundantly clear that the so-called 'pro-life' movement in the US don't genuinely believe abortion is murder, they simply want power and control

Who The Devil Are You? Untangling the mythology surrounding Anton LaVey

Ben Fridja - 31st May 2022

From the archives, Ben Fridja exposes the truth about Anton LaVey, the notorious High Priest of the Church of Satan

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Rhyme and Reason – Magnetic quackery

Fighting health misinformation can save lives, and stop vulnerable people being exploited

The Get Well show proved that for its fans, even when pseudoscience fails, it succeeds

As pet owners increasingly turn to CBD products, do claims match the evidence?

The Mail Online declared arsenic a “miracle cure for cancer” – I’ll wait to see some evidence

Conspiracy theories give the illusion of control, in a system that leaves people feeling powerless

The Get Well show proved that for its fans, even when pseudoscience fails, it succeeds

As pet owners increasingly turn to CBD products, do claims match the evidence?

Del Bigtree’s Better Way conference seeks to turn Covid conspiracists into full-on anti-vaxxers

Abortion isn’t murder – despite their rhetoric, even the American religious right know it

The Hairy Hands of Devon: how a tabloid tale spiraled into a full-blown urban legend

Philosopher’s Corner: why people continue to see underwhelming psychics

The mystery of Glastonbury Abbey: Messages from the other side?

“Miracles Today?” A Medical Critique of Craig Keener’s miracle claims

Could Loch Ness Monster sightings really be attributed to an aroused whale penis?

Conspiracy theories give the illusion of control, in a system that leaves people feeling powerless

Another mass shooting in America cites the Great Replacement conspiracy theory as motivation

Nikola Tesla and the cult of the mysterious genius

Del Bigtree’s Better Way conference seeks to turn Covid conspiracists into full-on anti-vaxxers

Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs

Rhyme and Reason – Magnetic quackery

Anti-vaxxers and pro-Russia conspiracy theorists are both driven first of all by attitude

The Hairy Hands of Devon: how a tabloid tale spiraled into a full-blown urban legend

My abortion was absolutely the right decision – but I wish I’d known what to expect

Philosopher’s Corner: why people continue to see underwhelming psychics

Why the climate change deniers’ argument that “CO2 is simply plant food” doesn’t stand up

Nikola Tesla and the cult of the mysterious genius

Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs

When it comes to the paranormal, do ‘sheep’ and ‘goats’ think differently? It looks like they do

Jordan Peterson, climate change, and the many definitions of a scientific model

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Why the climate change deniers’ argument that “CO2 is simply plant food” doesn’t stand up

Conspiracy theories give the illusion of control, in a system that leaves people feeling powerless

Rhyme and Reason – Magnetic quackery

Anti-vaxxers and pro-Russia conspiracy theorists are both driven first of all by attitude

Fighting health misinformation can save lives, and stop vulnerable people being exploited

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