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Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea
Alice Howarth
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18th November 2024
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Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya
Natália Pasternak
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11th November 2024
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Wim Hof: the self-described ‘Ice man’ whose extreme health claims leave many cold
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Menstrual masking: the inadvisable trend of treating acne… with period blood
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28th October 2024
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Floral alchemy: the even stranger Brazilian cousin of Bach Flower Remedies
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Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea
Alice Howarth
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18th November 2024
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Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya
Natália Pasternak
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11th November 2024
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The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it
Mike Hall
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6th November 2024
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The secret to a year-round tan – eating so many carrots you turn orange?
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The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics
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22nd November 2024
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From the archive: Many Happy Returns – Are past-life regressions evidence for reincarnation?
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19th November 2024
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Faking the faking of fake news, 1910 style: the ‘death’ of film star Florence Lawrence
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15th November 2024
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HADD its day: there’s no evidence for an inherited hyperactive agency detection device
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13th November 2024
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12th November 2024
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The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it
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Ian Fairholm is a psychology lecturer at the University of Bath, a tutor at Cheltenham’s Isbourne Education Centre, and a freelance academic, though only when he’s not trying to finish his PhD thesis.
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From the archive: Psychoanalysing God – Sigmund Freud on Religion
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21st October 2006
From the archives in 2006, Ian Fairholm discusses Freud, neuroticism and religion
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From the archive: Many Happy Returns – Are past-life regressions evidence for reincarnation?
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Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea
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Faking the faking of fake news, 1910 style: the ‘death’ of film star Florence Lawrence
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