Alternative Medicine

Controversy over Afro-Brazilian practices exposes the Brazilian alt-med glass ceiling

Carlos Orsi -
Afro-Brazilian healing traditions are rightfully omitted from Brazilian healthcare systems - and other pseudoscientific treatments should be, too.
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Paranormal

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Religion

The Humanist Enabling Life Project – supporting victims of sharia attacks

Leo Igwe -
The Humanist Enabling Life Project is a compassionate response to sharia amputations, murder, and other faith-based abuses in Nigeria.
Politics

Vladimir Putin’s insistence on pseudoscience is more than just propaganda

Slava Amanatski -
Putin's pseudoscience is not an aberration, but a way of understanding the world in which science becomes yet another field of geopolitical confrontation.
Religion

Camp Quest UK returns, offering a secular space for families to explore

Alastair Lichten -
Camp Quest UK provides a freethinking niche for those who may not fit in traditional summer camps, to ask big, small and weird questions.
Technology

Putting things into perspective: the fallibility of expert drone spotters

Andrew Hyams -
Amid media panics around mysterious drones in the sky, researchers tested whether pilots could tell a nearby drone from a distant plane.
Archive

From the archives: Reason, Science and the New Demonology

Andrew Belsey -
From the archives in 1992, Andrew Belsey examines whether the revivial in belief in angels, demons and spirits is fundamentally unreasonable
Psychics

How did psychics fare with their predictions for 2025?

Michael Marshall -
Every new year, the media features predictions for psychics for the year ahead - and every year, those predictions underwhelm of fail.
Cryptozoology

Why I don’t believe in… Bigfoot

Blake Smith -
Bigfoot may be the most enduring pop culture cryptid, but its appeal owes more to folklore, hoaxes and the will to believe than any reliable evidence
Skepticism

In the face of AI-driven encyclopedias, cherish Wikipedia – and original sources

Hayley Stevens -
As Elon Musk continues to push his 'anti-woke' version of Wikipedia, we need to protect what's true, and question which sources we trust
Psychology

In a culture of materialism, The Emperor’s New Clothes have designer labels

Daniel Aaron Levy -
A materialistic online culture that prioritises possessions and wealth misses what truly makes us happy and fulfilled – prosocial behaviour
Archive

From the archives: Chapman Cohen – the Freethinker

Ean Wood -
From the archives in 1992, Ean Wood remembers Chapman Cohen, an iconoclast of the growing freethought movement
Conspiracy Theories

How word games and folk etymology feed into fringe beliefs

Mark Horne -
A common thread among pseudoscientists is to purport to tell you what words REALLY mean - except, they're almost always wrong

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