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From growing basil to curing disease, pseuodscientists find support in the Qur’an
Stefano Bigliardi
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22nd July 2026
Alternative Medicine
Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth
Michael Marshall
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24th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist
Mauro Proença
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15th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
Edzard Ernst
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5th June 2026
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Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
André Bacchi
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1st June 2026
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Get a longer little doggy: can we really double our dog’s lifespan?
Robyn Lowe
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20th July 2026
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The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK
Brian Eggo
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26th June 2026
Alternative Medicine
Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth
Michael Marshall
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24th June 2026
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Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation
Dayton Murphy
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10th June 2026
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Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
André Bacchi
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1st June 2026
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Gideon Reid
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31st July 2026
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Extraordinary claims, modest evidence: reincarnation, and the limits of parapsychology
Gabriel Andrade
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27th July 2026
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The underwhelming reality of the White House’s own ‘Disclosure Day’
Dave Hahn
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17th July 2026
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Identifying the mysterious and legendary ground shark of the Timor Sea
Karl Brandt
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13th July 2026
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Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test
Mike Hall
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8th June 2026
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The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK
Brian Eggo
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26th June 2026
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Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
Aaron Rabinowitz
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3rd June 2026
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Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole
Michael Marshall
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29th May 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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The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think
Aaron Rabinowitz
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7th August 2026
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No lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s intellectual equal
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5th August 2026
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Why does the political right still hate electric vehicles and dismiss green energy?
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3rd August 2026
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We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation
Michael Marshall
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24th July 2026
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From growing basil to curing disease, pseuodscientists find support in the Qur’an
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The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think
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7th August 2026
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No lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s intellectual equal
Ted Lefroy
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5th August 2026
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Why does the political right still hate electric vehicles and dismiss green energy?
Tim Jokl
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3rd August 2026
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29th July 2026
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Are there hidden messages in the Bible? Revisiting the claims of the Bible Code
Klaus Schmeh
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26th October 2011
From the archives, Klaus Schmeh tells the truth about the Bible code, and its claims to predict the future based on ancient holy texts.
Alternative Medicine
Therapeutic Touch: another health scam from America
Mahlon W Wagner
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1st October 2011
From the archives, Mahlon W Wagner calls on the nursing profession to distance itself from New Age mysticism and anti-scientific philosophies
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The First Quackbusters? The early battles between quacks and skeptics
Simon Singh
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Edzard Ernst
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1st October 2011
From the archives, Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst reflect on the early history of the continuing battle between quacks and sceptics
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Is believing seeing? Early research into the unreliability of eyewitness testimony
Richard Wiseman
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1st October 2011
From the archives, Richard Wiseman describes the very first experiment into the unreliability of eyewitness testimony - the pioneering work of Mr S.J. Davey.
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Foreign aid, ethical obligations and the morality of giving
Julian Baggini
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1st October 2011
From the archives, philosopher Julian Baggini examines the morality of giving, and our ethical obligations to those less fortunate than ourselves
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From the archive: Professor Bernard Carr replies to Jon Wainwright on psi effects
Bernard Carr
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17th January 2011
From the archives in 2011, Professor Bernard Carr replies to Jon Wainwright on psi effects and psychic experiences
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From the archives: Korean fan death, the curiously-local mass killer
Anonymous
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14th January 2011
From the archives in 2011, The Skeptic reports on the belief in Korea that sleeping with an electric fan in the room can cause an early death
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Act Without Hope: charitable giving, effective altruism, and the life you can save
Julian Baggini
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10th January 2011
From the archive in 2011, philosopher Julian Baggini reflects on charitable giving and what moral obligation we have to help others
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