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From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics
H.B. Gibson
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28th April 2026
Cancer
The high price of anti-science paranoia and fake cancer-cure conspiracies
André Bacchi
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23rd March 2026
Alternative Medicine
Rights over regulation? The moral case against legalised snake oil
Aaron Rabinowitz
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4th March 2026
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Superficial empowerment: the hidden cost of TikTok’s skincare obsession
Olivia Olin
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23rd February 2026
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The dangers of flawed clinical trials
Edzard Ernst
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Lost in translation: why most longevity breakthroughs don’t become therapies
Brian Goncus
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22nd May 2026
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The rise in chronic disease doesn’t necessarily mean we are getting sicker
Travis Baldwin
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24th April 2026
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No, artificial sweeteners do not cause cognitive decline
Mauro Proença
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22nd April 2026
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Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan
Michael Marshall
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10th April 2026
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André Bacchi
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23rd March 2026
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Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
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20th May 2026
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The demons of Varginha: The cultural context behind Brazil’s famous UFO case
João Lucas da Silva
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13th May 2026
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How a very wrong Royal horoscope put astrology on the map in Britain
Carlos Orsi
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11th May 2026
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Remembering Nick Pope, “the UK’s top UFO expert” (1965-2026)
Chris French
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29th April 2026
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‘Capturing Bigfoot’ may yet offer definitive proof that Bigfoot was nothing but a hoax
Blake Smith
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17th April 2026
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Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan
Michael Marshall
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10th April 2026
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The Italian electoral abstention, and the self-fulfilling conspiracy theory plot
Allegra Brachini
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25th March 2026
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Venezuelan “birtherism”: the nationalistic movement to delegitimise Nicolás Maduro
Gabriel Andrade
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6th March 2026
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What the ‘Epstein Files’ tell us about conspiracy theories – and about skeptics
Michael Marshall
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16th February 2026
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Taylor Swift isn’t “MAGA-coded”, she is a lightning rod for conspiracist grievances
Dave Hahn
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18th May 2026
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Gen Z don’t really think they’re psychic – at least no more so than their elders
Michael Marshall
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15th May 2026
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‘God: The Science, The Evidence, The Dawn of a Revolution’… and underwhelming apologetics
Aaron Rabinowitz
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6th May 2026
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For a truly global humanist movement, we need an International Humanist Institute
Leo Igwe
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4th May 2026
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The ‘Quiet Revival’ in British religiosity was only ever a statistical mirage
Michael Marshall
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In the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans
Richard Glover
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27th May 2026
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Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
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20th May 2026
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Smoke and mirrors: violent media, cigarettes, and shaky statistics
Jim Cliff
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18th May 2026
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Richard Dawkins and AI: the lights are on, but nobody’s home
Mike Hall
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8th May 2026
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27th April 2026
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From the archives: The power of the publisher
Wendy M. Grossman
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26th May 2026
From the archives in 1993, Wendy Grossman on the responsibility of publishers whose stable of content spans from the scientific to the preposterous.
Archive
From the archives: A healthy dose of sarsaparilla – snake oil for the nineties
Jerome Cosyn
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19th May 2026
From the archives in 1993, Jerome Cosyn compares the flagrant snake oil of old with our enlightened times, and asks how much has really changed.
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From the archives: A Test for Reincarnation
Val Dobson
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12th May 2026
From the archives in 1993, Val Dobson proposes a practical method for checking whether claims of past lives and reincarnation really stand up.
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From the archives: Tunnel Vision – Is the ‘near-death experience’ just an illusion?
Brian W Haines
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5th May 2026
From the archives in 1993, Brian W. Haines on the spate of claims that people on the verge of death have a Near Death Experience, and see a bright tunnel.
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From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics
H.B. Gibson
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28th April 2026
From the archive in 1992, HB Gibson looks at the rise and fall - and rise again - of medical acupuncture in Western society.
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From the archives: The controversial phenomenon of ball lightning
Steuart Campbell
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21st April 2026
From the archive in 1992, Steuart Campbell questions whether 'ball lightning' is a real phenomenon, or a series of misattributions.
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From the archives: Cold Comfort for Cold Fusion
Malcolm Glasse
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14th April 2026
From the archives in 1992, Malcolm Glasse reports on the bogus cold fusion claims of Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann.
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From the archives: Notions of belief – Memes, metaphors, and Richard Dawkins
Wendy M. Grossman
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7th April 2026
From the archives in 1992, Wendy Grossman is unconvinced by Richard Dawkins' version of religion is a memetic virus.
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