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  Most of the time, being proactive can be a good thing, but when it comes to healthcare, doing nothing is better than doing something stupid.
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  Fecomagnetism: how Spanish alternative therapists promoted our hoax faeces-based cure-all
  
  Fernando Cervera - 10th February 2021 0
  
  Two bored Spanish students invented a hoax therapy to demonstrate how misleading alt-med could be... then therapists asked if they could sell it.
  
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  Health food stores, a danger to public health?
  
  Edzard Ernst - 1st February 2021 0
  
  A Canadian study showed that health food shops were overwhelmingly likely to give misleading advice on cancer - are things any better here?
  
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  How the Society of Homeopaths had their accredited status suspended
  
  Michael Marshall - 26th January 2021 0
  
  After years of anti-vaccine misinformation and bogus claims to cure autism, the Society of Homeopaths has lost its accredited status
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  Activated charcoal is increasingly popular, so let’s talk about what makes for a good toothpaste
  
  Shaun Sellars - 1st March 2021 0
  
  The alternative medicine community is very fond of their charcoal toothpastes, but the vast majority offer zero protection to teeth
  
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  10 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease
  
  Alice Howarth - 26th February 2021 0
  
  It's a Sin showed us how much our understanding of HIV has changed, but social attitudes to the disease still remain mired in stigma
  
  Health
  
  Headlines calling HPV swabs “home smear tests” risk putting people off cervical screenings
  
  Alice Howarth - 25th February 2021 0
  
  When the media refers to new home swabs for HPV as "home smear test", they risk discouraging people from attending cervical screening
  
  Alternative Medicine
  
  When it comes to our health, doing nothing is often better than doing something wrong
  
  Natália Pasternak and Carlos Orsi - 19th February 2021 0
  
  Most of the time, being proactive can be a good thing, but when it comes to healthcare, doing nothing is better than doing something stupid.
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  Mark Horne - 24th February 2021 0
  
  By celebrating the long-debunked claims of Erich von Däniken, Blackpool's new entertainment park perpetuates deeply racist assumptions
  
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  Chris French - 3rd February 2021 0
  
  When their predictions don't come true, cults are faced with a choice: accept reality, or rationalise the failure. Which road will Qanon take?
  
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  Pandemic prediction problems: meet the psychics who claim to have predicted COVID-19
  
  Brian Eggo - 21st January 2021 0
  
  Psychics and astrologers now claim to have successfully predicted the pandemic, here's what their 2020 predictions actually said
  
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  Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil
  
  Natália Pasternak and Carlos Orsi - 15th January 2021 0
  
  Kardecism - an 19th century off-shoot of spiritualism - found fertile ground in Brazil, and grew to wholly undermine trust in science and medicine.
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  Aaron Rabinowitz - 5th March 2021 0
  
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  Thiago Vahia Malliagros - 3rd March 2021 0
  
  When the attempted coup of January 6th failed, supporters of Qanon picked up the Sovereign Citizen belief that the revolution would take place on March 4th
  
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  The carefully-woven conspiracy theories behind the attempted coup of January 6th
  
  Thiago Vahia Malliagros - 17th February 2021 0
  
  The forces that made the attempted coup of January 6th inevitable are still around - give them another spark and it will explode again.
  
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  Beware the ‘They’: once we believe in hidden, evil cabals, we can be convinced of anything
  
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  By blaming an unseen "They" for all that's wrong, conspiracy theories block any genuine skepticism - and that's what makes them so dangerous
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  When the attempted coup of January 6th failed, supporters of Qanon picked up the Sovereign Citizen belief that the revolution would take place on March 4th
  
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  When shows like Pod Save America run pseudoscience ads, they undermine their credibility
  
  Michael Marshall - 22nd February 2021 0
  
  Podcast hosts have a real intimacy with their listeners - that trust is eroded when they advertise snake oil supplements and pseudoscience
  
  Conspiracy Theories
  
  The carefully-woven conspiracy theories behind the attempted coup of January 6th
  
  Thiago Vahia Malliagros - 17th February 2021 0
  
  The forces that made the attempted coup of January 6th inevitable are still around - give them another spark and it will explode again.
  
  Skepticism
  
  Monkey Business: humans aren’t alone in recognising a good bargain
  
  Deborah Hyde - 15th February 2021 0
  
  Macaques have been observed trading tourists' possessions for food - showing humans aren't the only ones to understand good value
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  10 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease
  
  Alice Howarth - 26th February 2021 0
  
  It's a Sin showed us how much our understanding of HIV has changed, but social attitudes to the disease still remain mired in stigma
  
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  Toxoplasmosis: how worried should we be about the ‘mind-control parasite’ spread by cats?
  
  Lydia Hemus - 12th February 2021 0
  
  While TED talks and internet memes spread fears we're being mind-controlled by our feline friends, the reality might be somewhat less dramatic
  
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  A doomscrollers guide to climate hyperbole: countering the doomism of Deep Adaptation
  
  Ted Lefroy - 27th January 2021 0
  
  'Deep Adaptation' is a perfect example of how climate doomsayers and denialists both use similar methods to tilt reality in their favour
  
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  Is community testing the answer to managing the COVID-19 pandemic effectively?
  
  Alice Howarth - 25th January 2021 0
  
  Understanding the accuracy of PCR and Lateral Flow tests - and how they compare - is key in assessing the UK's community testing program
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LADDERS, WEBS & DEATH as RECREATION
WIND TURBINE ‘SYNDROME’
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the MONSTER of LAKE CHAMPLAIN
A Nessie researcher investigates one of the USA’s most enduring cryptozoological mysteries

LADDERS, WEBS & DEATH as RECREATION
Thoughts on the philosophical basis of death for entertainment

WIND TURBINE ‘SYNDROME’
The unfamiliar trajectories of scientific uncertainty – what’s wrong with asking bad questions?

THE OCKHAM AWARDS 2015
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When it comes to our health, doing nothing is often better than doing something wrong

Fecomagnetism: how Spanish alternative therapists promoted our hoax faeces-based cure-all

Health food stores, a danger to public health?

How the Society of Homeopaths had their accredited status suspended

Activated charcoal is increasingly popular, so let’s talk about what makes for a good toothpaste

10 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease

Headlines calling HPV swabs “home smear tests” risk putting people off cervical screenings

When it comes to our health, doing nothing is often better than doing something wrong

Blackpool’s new ‘Chariots of the Gods’ park is sadly built on racist assumptions about the past

When predictions fail: UFO cults, QAnon and cognitive dissonance

Pandemic prediction problems: meet the psychics who claim to have predicted COVID-19

Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil

Can you recognise antisemitism when you see it? An interactive meme adventure

How the conspiracy theorists behind the failed US coup settled on a new date: March 4th

The carefully-woven conspiracy theories behind the attempted coup of January 6th

Beware the ‘They’: once we believe in hidden, evil cabals, we can be convinced of anything

How the conspiracy theorists behind the failed US coup settled on a new date: March 4th

When shows like Pod Save America run pseudoscience ads, they undermine their credibility

The carefully-woven conspiracy theories behind the attempted coup of January 6th

Monkey Business: humans aren’t alone in recognising a good bargain

10 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease

Toxoplasmosis: how worried should we be about the ‘mind-control parasite’ spread by cats?

A doomscrollers guide to climate hyperbole: countering the doomism of Deep Adaptation

Is community testing the answer to managing the COVID-19 pandemic effectively?

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