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Ke Yi Lim is a fresh graduate from Singapore Management University with a love for space, conspiracies, and all things to do with cats. In her free time, you can find her taking long walks whilst pondering about what lies beyond the universe.

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Durian fruit myths: the many tall tales associated with the “King of Fruits”

Ke Yi Lim - 12th August 2021

Singapore's favourite fruit, the durian, has become the subject of myths and folk tales - each a testament to its cultural impact and importance

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From the archives: The Weight of Evidence – Gyroscopes can’t levitate UFOs

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The Sullivanians, psychoanalysis, and the worst therapy in the world

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Dr Flint Dibble wins 2024 Skeptical Activism Ockham award

19th October 2024

Elon Musk beats Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett to Rusty Razor pseudoscience award

19th October 2024

The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech

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Floral alchemy: the even stranger Brazilian cousin of Bach Flower Remedies

Could AI help fix the issues of ineffective alternative medicine regulation?

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

The secret to a year-round tan – eating so many carrots you turn orange?

The real-world harm of nutritional misinformation

Does the colour of a pill really influence what kind of placebo effect you’ll experience?

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

From the archives: A skeptical look at astrology

When it comes to science, the standard has to be truth and accuracy – not false balance

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

Welcome to the modern American Right – the world that high weirdness built

Donald Trump’s debate performance proved he has mainstreamed extreme conspiracy theories

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

From the archives: The Weight of Evidence – Gyroscopes can’t levitate UFOs

Elon Musk beats Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett to Rusty Razor pseudoscience award

Dr Flint Dibble wins 2024 Skeptical Activism Ockham award

The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech

From the archives: Why Do People Believe in the Paranormal? Skeptical happenings in Lowestoft

From the archives: The Weight of Evidence – Gyroscopes can’t levitate UFOs

The Sullivanians, psychoanalysis, and the worst therapy in the world

Could AI help fix the issues of ineffective alternative medicine regulation?

Does the colour of a pill really influence what kind of placebo effect you’ll experience?

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

Ke Yi Lim

Latest news

From the archives: The Weight of Evidence – Gyroscopes can’t levitate UFOs

The Sullivanians, psychoanalysis, and the worst therapy in the world

Dr Flint Dibble wins 2024 Skeptical Activism Ockham award

Elon Musk beats Dragon’s Den star Steven Bartlett to Rusty Razor pseudoscience award

The tyranny of the cloud: how we became serfs to big tech

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