Skepticism
Obituary: Lewis Jones – magician, writer, teacher, and skeptic
Mike Hutchinson, long time contributor to The Skeptic says farewell to the magazine's former columnist Lewis Jones, who died in September.
The Ockham Awards 2021: honouring the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience
Nominations for the 2021 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
Misleading propaganda from ‘Care Not Killing’ is designed to poison the well on assisted dying
Society needs to have an honest, grown-up conversation about the right to die - what it doesn't need is propaganda and misleading stats from special interest groups
Behind the slick production values of “The Reason I Jump”, lies Facilitated Communication
The documentary "The Reason I Jump" claims to offer insight into the inner lives of autistic people, but it is based on a pseudoscientific communication technique
Coming to terms: the words believers, skeptics and the general public use differently
Sometimes it feels like skeptics are speaking a different language to everyone else - here's our guide to the times what we mean differs from what people hear
Falsification: Karl Popper’s guide to telling real science from pseudoscience
According to Popper's Falsification, a proposition, theory or hypothesis is only as strong as how far it can resist falsifying evidence.
“Who decides?”: how fair questions can derail meaningful action
The question of who gets to decide how boundaries are set in society can often be a way to distract from efforts to change the status quo
When shows like Pod Save America run pseudoscience ads, they undermine their credibility
Podcast hosts have a real intimacy with their listeners - that trust is eroded when they advertise snake oil supplements and pseudoscience
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