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Clive Hunt is a statistician living in Johannesburg. This article originally appeared in ARIP, the newsletter of the South African Skeptics, and is reprinted with permission.

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

Clive Hunt - 20th September 2024

From the archives in 1990, Clive Hunt looks at the role of chance and probability in explaining paranormal claims

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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

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

13th 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

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

We shouldn’t fear a “zombie fungus”, like The Last of Us… but a threat from fungi is real

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

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

From the archives: UFOs Over Russia

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

Clive Hunt

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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

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

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