Paranormal

Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test

Mike Hall -
Pam Reynolds' 1991 out-of-body experience claims suggested to some that consciousness lives outside the mind – until scientists proved otherwise.
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Alternative Medicine

Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information

André Bacchi -
Patients have a right to choose how they want to be treated – but for that choice to mean anything, they must be given accurate information.
Conspiracy Theories

Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole

Michael Marshall -
Throughout the pandemic, writer Naomi Wolf fell from feminist icon and public intellectual, to conspiracy theorist and talking head of the right-wing media ecosystem
Technology

In the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans

Richard Glover -
Far from being capable of objective judgements, AI and machine learning replicate the biases and prejudices of the very human data they're trained on.
Archive

From the archives: The power of the publisher

Wendy M. Grossman -
From the archives in 1993, Wendy Grossman on the responsibility of publishers whose stable of content spans from the scientific to the preposterous.
Health

Lost in translation: why most longevity breakthroughs don’t become therapies

Brian Goncus -
From calorie restriction to enzyme supplements, longevity hackers are often quick to jump on the latest research - but over time, it fails to hold up.
Parapsychology

Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience

Hj Hornbeck -
Evaluating claims of ESP and other psi abilities can provide the perfect opportunity to grapple with some counterintuitive, but incredibly important, maths.
Archive

From the archives: A healthy dose of sarsaparilla – snake oil for the nineties 

Jerome Cosyn -
From the archives in 1993, Jerome Cosyn compares the flagrant snake oil of old with our enlightened times, and asks how much has really changed.
Science

Smoke and mirrors: violent media, cigarettes, and shaky statistics

Jim Cliff -
Is violent media as closely linked to aggression as smoking is to lung cancer? Only if you take at face value heavily cherry-picked research.
Bad PR

Gen Z don’t really think they’re psychic – at least no more so than their elders

Michael Marshall -
New "research" suggests that a third of Gen Z believe they have psychic intuition – based on an online survey with deep methodological flaws.
UFOs

The demons of Varginha: The cultural context behind Brazil’s famous UFO case

João Lucas da Silva -
In 1996, three girls claimed to see a strange creature in the Jardim Andere neighbourhood of Varginha, Brazil, kicking off a now-legendary UFO story.
Archive

From the archives: A Test for Reincarnation 

Val Dobson -
From the archives in 1993, Val Dobson proposes a practical method for checking whether claims of past lives and reincarnation really stand up.

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