Archive

From the archives, Rachel Carthy looks at the burgeoning free-for-all she calls cryptohistory

Jon Cohen remembers the highlights and the stories from the evening which featured James Randi's first presentation to a UK audience in over a decade, and Susan Blackmore's talk of returning to public scepticism and parapsychology.

Published in The Skeptic, Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008) Jason J Braithwaite offers an in-depth analysis and critique of the survivalist’s neuroscience of near-death experiences

Sally Marlow interviews Mark Vernon about life, the universe and everything – but mainly agnosticism.

James Byrne in retrospect on being a psychic

Published in The Skeptic, Volume 16, Issue 3 (2003) David Marks concludes a three-part critical review of parapsychology, with this article focusing on some claims by Rupert Sheldrake.

From the archives, Martin Parkinson predicting the rise of pseudo-inspirational business speakers like Tony Robbins

From the archives, Wendy Grossman disputes Michael Shermer's claim that we are obviously more intelligent than our ancestors