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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
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Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea
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Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya
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The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it
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Lee Traynor
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Lee Traynor teaches English for Science at the Centre for Applied Language at the University of Hannover, Germany. In his spare time he is working on a doctoral thesis on ways of teaching evolution effectively.
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Cognitive dissonance – the mental gymnastics that help us rationalise our sloppy thinking
Lee Traynor
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1st April 2006
From the archives, Lee Traynor looks at how cognitive dissonance important in understanding pseudoscience
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From the archive: Many Happy Returns – Are past-life regressions evidence for reincarnation?
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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