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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
Alternative Medicine
The dangers of flawed clinical trials
Edzard Ernst
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18th February 2026
Alternative Medicine
Controversy over Afro-Brazilian practices exposes the Brazilian alt-med glass ceiling
Carlos Orsi
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19th January 2026
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The high price of anti-science paranoia and fake cancer-cure conspiracies
André Bacchi
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23rd March 2026
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How arbitrary decisions become dogma in healthcare
André Bacchi
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9th February 2026
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No, a study didn’t show oat milk and veganism will make you depressed
Michael Marshall
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30th January 2026
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Alcohol is linked to developing cancer, but we should weigh up our risks accurately
Alice Howarth
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26th January 2026
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Hot and Bovaer-ed: using animal methane inhibitors to tackle greenhouse emissions
Robyn Lowe
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21st January 2026
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Ed and Lorraine Warren: past masters of paranormal self-promotion
Michael Marshall
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20th March 2026
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The influence of sci-fi media on Zimbabwe’s Ariel School UFO sightings
Gideon Reid
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16th March 2026
Ghosts
The “Greatest Ghost Sighting ever”: the Grey Lady of the Theatre Royal, Bath
Andy Owens
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13th February 2026
Superstition
Catching Killers, Not Curses: how to investigate Africa’s ‘Money Ritual’ crimes
Keith K Silika
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Sani K Bayero
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28th January 2026
UFOs
Exploring the Archives for the Unexplained
Mark Horne
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23rd January 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
Conspiracy Theories
What the ‘Epstein Files’ tell us about conspiracy theories – and about skeptics
Michael Marshall
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16th February 2026
Conspiracy Theories
Taylor Swift isn’t “MAGA-coded”, she is a lightning rod for conspiracist grievances
Dave Hahn
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2nd February 2026
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How word games and folk etymology feed into fringe beliefs
Mark Horne
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15th December 2025
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Doing (a Long) Time: sentence inflation and the prison crisis
Emma McClure
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1st April 2026
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What not to say to someone who is trying to conceive
Taya K
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30th March 2026
Conspiracy Theories
The Italian electoral abstention, and the self-fulfilling conspiracy theory plot
Allegra Brachini
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25th March 2026
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75 Smart, ‘Knowledgemaxxing’, and the anxiety around social media ‘brain rot’
Abigail Kennedy
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13th March 2026
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Scotland’s recent rise in sex crimes is almost certainly not linked to immigration
Brian Eggo
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11th March 2026
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The Starbucks ‘Sippy Lid’ and the marketing doublespeak of greenwashing
Suyeon Jung
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27th March 2026
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The Sword of Durandal – the wholly impossible “Quantum Navigation Device”
Cameron Coward
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18th March 2026
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Machine learning without critical thinking only encourages tech pseudoscience
Richard Glover
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9th March 2026
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Dimethyl sulfide from space – a sign of extraterrestrial life, or something else?
Georgy Kurakin
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20th February 2026
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The dangers of flawed clinical trials
Edzard Ernst
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18th February 2026
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Camp Quest UK returns, offering a secular space for families to explore
Alastair Lichten
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8th January 2026
Camp Quest UK provides a freethinking niche for those who may not fit in traditional summer camps, to ask big, small and weird questions.
Archive
From the archives:Â Reason, Science and the New Demonology
Andrew Belsey
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6th January 2026
From the archives in 1992, Andrew Belsey examines whether the revivial in belief in angels, demons and spirits is fundamentally unreasonable
Skepticism
In the face of AI-driven encyclopedias, cherish Wikipedia – and original sources
Hayley Stevens
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18th December 2025
As Elon Musk continues to push his 'anti-woke' version of Wikipedia, we need to protect what's true, and question which sources we trust
Archive
From the archives: Chapman Cohen – the Freethinker
Ean Wood
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16th December 2025
From the archives in 1992, Ean Wood remembers Chapman Cohen, an iconoclast of the growing freethought movement
Archive
From the archives: Ice in the sky – Hans Hörbiger’s Cosmic Ice Theory
Loren Petrich
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9th December 2025
From the archives in 1992, Loren Petrich looks at a bizarre theory that almost became part of Nazi ideology
Alternative Medicine
If pseudoscience actually worked, scientists would be first in line to profit
Slava Amanatski
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8th December 2025
Scientists don't reject pseudoscience because there is no profit in it - scientists would thrive on having novel fields to explore
Skepticism
A not-so-sound therapy: my Biofield Tuning experience
David Weinberg
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3rd December 2025
When the opportunity arose to have my biofield tuned, as a skeptic, I took it, to experience vibrational pseudoscience first-hand
Archive
From the archives:Â Are New Age ideas damaging the feminist viewpoint?
Lucy Fisher
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25th November 2025
From the archives in 1992, Lucy Fisher looks at the New Age movement, and its targeting and exploiting of female empowerment
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