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From the archives: Sir Francis Galton, the Victorian polymath… and noted eugenicist

Russell Dear, Marianne Baker -
From the archives of July 1993, Russell Dear profiles the Victorian scientist, statistician, and eugenicist, Sir Francis Galton, followed by an addendum from Marianne Baker.
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From the archives: Psychic Diary – Two North Yorkshire oddities

Toby Howard -
From the archives of July 1993, Toby Howard reports from a North Yorkshire field trip to a tomb and a temple.
Alternative Medicine

Causality: how to prove it scientifically, and why it matters

Edzard Ernst -
Science has long understood the dangers of attributing false causality, developing tools like Koch's Postulates and the Bradford Hill Criteria to avoid it.
Climate Change

Even amid extreme heatwaves, well-funded climate change deniers continue to spread doubt

Michael Marshall -
Climate change deniers like the Daily Sceptic are working overtime to downplay the UK's unprecedented series of heatwaves.
Skepticism

The Ockham Awards 2026: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience

Michael Marshall -
Nominations for the 2026 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
Philosophy

When it comes to jargon, it should only ever be about using the right tool for the right job

Richard Glover -
At its best, jargon allows for the clear and concise communication of ideas and concepts; at its worst, it can be used to obscure and confuse.
Archive

From the archives: Neural Networks and NDEs – Can a computer have a near-death experience?

David Bradbury -
From the archives of July 1993, David Bradbury on the experiments which claimed to show neural networks were capable of producing NDEs.
Cults

The immortality cult, cryonics, and the Arizona way of death

Wendy M. Grossman -
The desire for immortality is as old as humanity; it's no surprise so many pseudoscientists and tech gurus have promised to hold back death.
Philosophy

The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can judge how we think

Aaron Rabinowitz -
Whether acting as a sycophantic friend or a rigorous agnostic, AI can't think for itself – but it can show a sophisticated understanding of us.
History

No lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s intellectual equal

Ted Lefroy -
While common retelling of the story paints Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as rivals, in truth they were intellectual equals.
Archive

From the archives: Cold fusion heats up

Chris Tinsley -
From the archives of May 1993, Chris Tinsley urges caution in writing off cold fusion experiments, before they had been proven to be a hoax.
Climate Change

Why does the political right still hate electric vehicles and dismiss green energy?

Tim Jokl -
Electric vehicles and clean energy technology are real, current, and effective solutions - so why are the right wing still so opposed?

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