Society

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

Extremism

Seed oils: how a panic over cooking fats is lubricating the alt-right pipeline

Alice Howarth -
The seed oils fear may look like just another nutritional panic, but it plays into an ideological drive towards 'traditional' alt-right ideals
History

Did pirates and a First Nations chief help kick-start the Enlightenment?

Ted Lefroy -
The Enlightenment is often talked of as a 'Western' project, but European thinkers were influenced by the societies they met on their colonial travels
Moral Panics

Got any leads? Dog thieves won’t really leave secret signs outside your house

Brian Eggo -
Claims that would-be dog thieves mark their victims' houses with stickers echo old urban legends designed to spread fear and anxiety
Religion

Is Pope Leo XIV the true successor to the apostle Peter, Catholicism’s first Pope?

Gabriel Andrade -
The new Pope is no successor to Peter - the facts do not support the Catholic narrative that Peter was ever bishop of Rome, or the first established Pope
Health

Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s “autism cure” quest reeks of eugenics

Noah Lugeons -
While claiming to seek a "cure" for autism, Robert F Kennedy Jr places autistic people on a spectrum ranging from inconvenient to undesirable
Crime

Prison rehabilitation programs are rarely evidence-based, and seldom effective

Emma McClure, Aaron Rabinowitz -
Governments talk about being tough on crime, yet interventions designed to prevent reoffending are rarely ever assessed to see if they actually work
Alternative Medicine

Google’s AI promoted unproven mushroom supplement with questionable testimonials

Michael Marshall -
Lignosus claims that their mushroom supplement treats COPD – serious claims based on no evidence, yet Google's AI search actively endorsed it
History

Cannibalism: The long history of a modern propaganda tool

James Williams -
The recent accusations about Haitian cannibals reflect a long tradition of propaganda, aimed at othering those deemed undesirable
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