The Aires Tech 'devices' promoted by celebrity athletes, airlines and even Russell Brand are claimed to protect users from electromagnetic frequencies. The company says their expensive products are science-backed, but what does the evidence say? Mark Honeychurch investigates.

Sightings of 'out of place' animals have long been attributed to circus train wrecks - but while such wrecks were common, actual escaped beasts were less so.

From the archives in 1993, Bob Basalla tries his hand at writing his own pseudoscientific tome, on chess history, with Nostradamus as a guide.

Guarding against bias is a fool's errand - instead of pretending we can ignore them, we should acknowledge biases, and put them into context.

Martin Lewis, a consumer protection journalist who campaigns against finance scams, wins the 2026 Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism.

Lord Toby Young and the Daily Sceptic, prolific promoters of climate change denial and antivax misinformation, win the 2026 Rusty Razor Award.

In 1954 a Glasgow cemetery filled with children hunting a vampire. Within a week the whole country knew what had made them do it, and nobody had checked.

It's natural to map the world around us with heuristics, but sometimes they can lead us astray or even reveal our biases and bigotries.

From the archives in 1993, Andrew M Colman questions contemporaneous claims of extraordinarily and implausibly high IQ scores.

The theory that life is just a Matrix-like computer simulation has caught on in Silicon Valley and is taking on increasingly religious tones.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the most senior figure in US health, has spent decades undermining vaccines, denying the reality of AIDS, and endangering Americans.