Mark Horne is a former board member of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. He currently works in higher education fundrasing and has previously been a copywriter, researcher and campaigner.
There have always been parties pushing fringe beliefs at elections, but Reform saw significant gains by courting the conspiracist vote - we need to pay attention
Reports of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, bear a striking resemblance to the way some people describe their experience of reiki... and of religion
Every year, the media cover the amazing predictions made by Bulgarian psychic Baba Vanga - the only problem is, there's no evidence she ever actually made them
During coverage of the trial of Lucy Letby, we didn't need to hear from graphologists - the pseudoscience of deriving psychological insights from someone's handwriting
Rather than engage with the realities of climate change, some people prefer the comforting reassurance of denialism, packaged in these 10 infuriating memes
