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From the archive: James Randi’s 1989 lecture for the Manchester Skeptics

Frank Koval -
From the archives, Frank Koval's 1989 article presents a transcript of James Randi's lecture that year for the Manchester Skeptics
Alternative Medicine

From the archive: Alternative medicine, and the provenance of health misinformation

Nick Beard -
From the archive in 1989, Dr Nick Beard looks at the rise in alternative medicine, and where it differs from proven treatments
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From the archive: Explaining the Turin Shroud – the creation of a religious hoax

Steve Donnelly -
From the archives in 1988, Steve Donnelly interviews Joe Nickel on the Turin Shroud and how the hoax was created
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From the archives: Heaven and Earth – Is the ‘curse of Tutankhamen’ a curse at all?

Mike Hutchinson -
From the archives in 1988, Mike Hutchinson examines the evidence for and against the supposed curse of Tutankhamen
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From the archives: Jacques Benoit’s (failed) experiments with telepathic snails

Toby Howard -
From the archives in 1988, Toby Howard recounts the 19th Century attempts to create a 'snail telegraph' - based on the notion that snails were telepathic
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From the archives: A dowsing-dedicated day in the country

Denys Parsons -
From the archives in 1988, Denys Parsons attends a rather disappointing display of dowsing, alongside BBC Oxford
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From the archives: Astrology, Gauquelin and the real explanation for the “Mars Effect”

Anthony Garrett -
From the archives in 1988, physicist Anthony Garrett picks apart a study of European sports stars that claimed to prove the validity of astrology.
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From the archives: Is there antibody there? Jaques Benveniste and the memory of water

Richard Kay -
From the archives in 1988, Richard Kay on the remarkable experiments of Jaques Benveniste, the Nobel prize winner who claimed to prove water has memory
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