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

Skepticism

The Ockham Awards 2025: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience

Michael Marshall -
Nominations for the 2025 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
Archive

From the archives: ‘Brainsex’, and the folly of sex-based neuroscience

Wendy M. Grossman -
From the archives in 1991, Wendy Grossman debunks 'Brainsex', which argues for biological differences between male and female brains
History

What age was actually considered ‘old’ in Medieval Europe?

Mark Horne -
Our assumption that life expectancy in the past was significantly lower doesn't make sense, and is based in a mathematical misunderstanding
Politics

AI authoritarianism? We should be wary of outsourcing our thinking to the machine

Abigail Kennedy -
If we outsource our decision making to AI, we unwittingly train ourselves to accept its natural bias towards the status quo, and conservatism
Flat Earth

Dear people of TikTok: I, the editor of The Skeptic, am obviously not a flat earther

Michael Marshall -
Millions of TikTokers viewed claims that all pilots know the earth is flat... except, I'm the person in the videos, and that's not what I said
Archive

From the archives: Spirits at Large – a skeptical visit to a spiritualist church

Lucy Fisher -
From the archives in 1991, Lucy Fisher visits her local spiritualist church and is underwhelmed by the shows of clairvoyance
Skepticism

Teaching Nigerian primary school children the importance of asking questions

Leo Igwe -
Instead of traditional rote learning and memorising, the questionstorm project encourages children to explore by asking questions
Politics

From sacred signs to golden urns: The oddities of Dalai Lama Succession

Gabriel Andrade -
The Dalai Lama's successor - by definition, his reincarnated self - is nothing but superstition and mysticism, however it is chosen
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