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Michael Marshall

Michael Marshall is the project director of the Good Thinking Society and president of the Merseyside Skeptics Society. He is the co-host of the Skeptics with a K podcast, interviews proponents of pseudoscience on the Be Reasonable podcast, has given skeptical talks all around the world, and has lectured at several universities on the role of PR in the media. He became editor of The Skeptic in August 2020.

Reform UK win 2025 Rusty Razor award for worst psuedoscience of the year

Nigel Farage's political party, Reform UK, has been named The Skeptic's 'Rusty Razor' award winner for worst pseudoscience of 2025

Dr Cyriac Abby Philips wins 2025 Skeptical Activism Ockham award

Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, an Indian doctor who exposes the harms of alternative medicine, wins the 2025 Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism.

Beware the groups who use edge cases and social norms to curtail free speech

Charlie Kirk was a poster boy for a movement that pays lip service to the importance of free speech while bullying and intimidating critics into silence

Preventing British Supplements’ health claims isn’t an infringement of free speech

Wellness company British Supplements uses customer reviews to try to avoid regulations around misleading claims of products treating "C****R"

How concerned should we be about the UK’s geoengineering trials?

As the UK endures a summer of extreme heatwaves, a controversial geoengineering trial investigates technical solutions to the climate crisis.

The amateur activists trying to fight chemtrails… with warmed vinegar

Groups of conspiracy theorists concerned about chemtrails have come up with a novel 'solution': using warm vinegar to bust the clouds

The Ockham Awards 2025: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience

Nominations for the 2025 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.

Dear people of TikTok: I, the editor of The Skeptic, am obviously not a flat earther

Millions of TikTokers viewed claims that all pilots know the earth is flat... except, I'm the person in the videos, and that's not what I said
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