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Kind Patches almost certainly aren’t the answer to ADHD focus issues
Alice Howarth
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2nd July 2025
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Navel glazing: the beauty fad of applying castor oil to the belly button
Alice Howarth
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My first experience at a Holistic Health and Healing Expo
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Obstetric emergencies are no place for alternative medicine
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Kind Patches almost certainly aren’t the answer to ADHD focus issues
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2nd July 2025
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Hair analysis and bioresonance food sensitivity tests are simply junk science
Brian Eggo
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20th June 2025
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Facts won’t change minds about animal medicine, so should we bother trying?
Robyn Lowe
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2nd June 2025
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Obstetric emergencies are no place for alternative medicine
André Bacchi
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27th May 2025
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Seed oils: how a panic over cooking fats is lubricating the alt-right pipeline
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Studying the genetics of mediumship is the new Tooth Fairy science
Marcelo Yamashita
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Carlos Orsi
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9th June 2025
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Algorithmic Astrology: the digital age of pseudoscience
Hayley Stevens
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19th May 2025
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The Truth of Skinwalker Ranch… probably won’t shock you
Nick Garratt
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11th April 2025
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A brief history of The Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit
Chris French
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26th March 2025
Alternative Medicine
Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola
Michael Marshall
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19th March 2025
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‘Jewtlantis’ isn’t a utopian vision – it is AI slop with an antisemitic tinge
Aaron Rabinowitz
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23rd May 2025
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Latest studies map conspiracy theories in Brazil and Latin America
Cesar Baima
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12th May 2025
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The Tartarian conspiracy: a silly pseudo-archaeology for our serious times
Dave Hahn
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4th April 2025
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Who runs the world? According to conspiracy theorists, it’s Beyoncé
Pai Jing Wen
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17th March 2025
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The conspiracy-adjacent politicians finding allies in Sovereign Citizens
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From the archives:Â Why don’t creationists talk about sex?
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1st July 2025
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Are there really 1.4 billion Catholics around the world?
Mark Horne
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27th June 2025
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Love bombs and fuzzy feelings: Mormon recruiting techniques haven’t changed
Tim Jokl
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From the archives:Â Smith and Blackburn – the story of a great hoax
Martin Gardner
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The window of opportunity against climate denialism in Brazil and Latin America
Cesar Baima
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23rd June 2025
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Thrifting isn’t the solution to the climate crisis – we need to change our behaviours
Ananya Anand
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19th June 2025
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The virus metaphor for misinformation is flawed, and can distract us from solutions
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18th June 2025
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How to play Rock, Paper, Scissors optimally: the Nash equilibrium
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Falsification: Karl Popper’s guide to telling real science from pseudoscience
Jonny Thomson
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19th May 2021
According to Popper's Falsification, a proposition, theory or hypothesis is only as strong as how far it can resist falsifying evidence.
Philosophy
“Who decides?”: how fair questions can derail meaningful action
Aaron Rabinowitz
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31st March 2021
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
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When shows like Pod Save America run pseudoscience ads, they undermine their credibility
Michael Marshall
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22nd February 2021
Podcast hosts have a real intimacy with their listeners - that trust is eroded when they advertise snake oil supplements and pseudoscience
Skepticism
Monkey Business: humans aren’t alone in recognising a good bargain
Deborah Hyde
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15th February 2021
Macaques have been observed trading tourists' possessions for food - showing humans aren't the only ones to understand good value
Skepticism
Putting Some Skeptical Mantras to Bed
Jonathan Jarry
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28th January 2021
As skeptics, we hear the same sayings and mantras repeated again and again, but we rarely pause to consider if they're useful... or even true
Conspiracy Theories
Cheap talk skepticism: why we need to push back against those who are ‘just asking questions’
Aaron Rabinowitz
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8th January 2021
'Cheap talk' skepticism - coming at little cost to the doubter, but significant cost to others - is undermining genuine skeptical inquiry.
Health
How to spot medical misinformation in a pandemic: our top 10 tips
Brian Eggo
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Matt Kemp
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30th December 2020
As medical misinformation and dubious claims continue to spread, we present our guide to help you separate fact from fiction.
Skepticism
Rebecca Fox… On the edge
Rebecca Fox
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11th December 2020
Skepticism isn't something you are, it's something you do - when we realise that, it frees us to do skepticism our own way
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