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Ben Harris is an Australian author. His most recent book Bend It Like Geller (Vanishing Inc, 2023) is an expose of the secret techniques used by self-proclaimed Israeli psychic, Uri Geller.

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UFOs: The unidentified flying circus comes to town

Ben Harris - 27th May 2024

The public face of ufology is more akin to a circus than any scientific endeavour, argues Australian author, Ben Harris.

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Religion is simply a powerful placebo – offering priests a sense of ritual, but little else

23rd September 2024

From the archives: On Coincidences – Chance can be a fine thing

20th September 2024

Nobody undergoes egg donation for the money – it is about altruism, not exploitation

18th September 2024

From the archives: The Moses Barrier – the paranormal takes over where religion left off

17th September 2024

Labia peels: it is a very bad idea to apply chemicals to your labia in the name of beauty

16th September 2024

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Labia peels: it is a very bad idea to apply chemicals to your labia in the name of beauty

São Paulo government boasts about how much money it wastes on alternative medicines

An awareness of your body is useful, but the Alexander Technique probably isn’t

Papaya and milk – the traditional Asian solution to breast augmentation

False diagnoses like ‘adrenal fatigue’ offer us simplistic solutions to our stressful lives

Religion is simply a powerful placebo – offering priests a sense of ritual, but little else

Nobody undergoes egg donation for the money – it is about altruism, not exploitation

Beware of commercial microbiome tests: how at-home testing can mislead consumers

Med Beds: the futuristic health devices promising to cure you with undefined energy

Overly simplistic headlines muddy the water around placebo effects and mislead the public

From the archives: UFOs Over Russia

The Estes method is an update to the ghost hunter’s Spirit Box, with all the same flaws

The ‘Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis’ that wants us to believe aliens have always been among us

From the archives: Heaven and Earth – Is the ‘curse of Tutankhamen’ a curse at all?

Decades on, we still haven’t fully learned the right lessons from the Satanic Panic

Med Beds: the futuristic health devices promising to cure you with undefined energy

The UK riots showed why we have to dismantle the far-right’s misinformation machines

The 2024 UK General Election came with lessons that skeptics should listen to

What does the recent UK election mean for skepticism and pseudoscience?

Taylor Swift conspiracy theories owe more to misogyny than the Illuminati

Religion is simply a powerful placebo – offering priests a sense of ritual, but little else

From the archives: On Coincidences – Chance can be a fine thing

Nobody undergoes egg donation for the money – it is about altruism, not exploitation

From the archives: The Moses Barrier – the paranormal takes over where religion left off

Comparing misinformation to a virus is neither accurate nor useful in preventing its spread

Comparing misinformation to a virus is neither accurate nor useful in preventing its spread

Beware of commercial microbiome tests: how at-home testing can mislead consumers

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

Overly simplistic headlines muddy the water around placebo effects and mislead the public

Racism is a real phenomenon, but that doesn’t mean that the idea of “biological race” is real

Ben Harris

Latest news

Religion is simply a powerful placebo – offering priests a sense of ritual, but little else

From the archives: On Coincidences – Chance can be a fine thing

Nobody undergoes egg donation for the money – it is about altruism, not exploitation

From the archives: The Moses Barrier – the paranormal takes over where religion left off

Labia peels: it is a very bad idea to apply chemicals to your labia in the name of beauty

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