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From the archives: Are New Age ideas damaging the feminist viewpoint?

Lucy Fisher -
From the archives in 1992, Lucy Fisher looks at the New Age movement, and its targeting and exploiting of female empowerment
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The BBC’s NightWatch is a control group for Ghost Hunting TV

Hayley Stevens -
West Country comedy siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's Nightwatch shows how mundane ghost-hunting actually is, when you're not faking it for ratings
Archive

From the archives: Premanand, Scourge of the Indian Godmen

Lewis Jones -
From the archives in 1992, Lewis Jones reports from Indian skeptic and rationalist Premanand's public talk in London, about his life's work
Paranormal

A forgotten sceptic: William M. Knox, the one-eyed atheist of Belfast

Madeleine Goodall -
Writing in the late 1800s, Irish atheist William M. Knox took aim at the emerging trend of spiritualism, séances, and communicating with the dead
Religion

J.D. Vance, religious conversion, and the battle over identity

Gabriel Andrade -
J.D. Vance has been criticised for hoping his Hindu wife might convert to Catholicism, but does that differ from skeptics and atheists spreading doubt?
Paranormal

Exploring the limits of skepticism. Part 2: The plot thickens

Chris French -
Lucid dreaming is a much-tested paranormal claim, never reliably showing positive results - so why did this new experiment seem to bear fruit?
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From the archives: examining the Creationists’ Argument from Design

Antony Flew -
From the archives in 1992, philosophy professor and author Antony Flew reviews the Creationist argument for a designer deity
Health

Polylaminin: a miracle cure for spinal injuries, or another media hype story?

Marcelo Yamashita -
Polyamin was hyped as a miracle cure for spinal injuries in the media, despite there being no published scientific papers presenting the evidence
Health

Why are heart attacks in women so often misdiagnosed?

Alice Howarth -
Coronary heart disease remains the largest cause of death in women, yet women suffering heart attacks often have their symptoms missed, or ignored
Conspiracy Theories

Phantom Time Hypothesis – the supposedly ‘missing’ fortnight in 1752

Mike Hall -
When the calendar skipped two weeks in 1752, the cause wasn't 'phantom time', but the incompatibility of the Julian and Gregorian calendars
Alternative Medicine

From the archives: the ‘Synchro-Energiser’ – a pseudoscientific panacea?

Michael Heap -
From the archives in 1992, psychiatrist Mike Heap looks at the Synchro-Energiser, a high-tech computer-driven 'brain balancer'.
Paranormal

The Grim Rea-purr? The cats claimed to be able to predict death

Brian Eggo -
Two feline care home residents have been claimed to be able to tell when elderly patients will die – so, are cats actually psychic?

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