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  From the archive: Scratching Fanny – the accusant ghost of Cock Lane
  
  Richard Whittington-Egan - 25th February 2025
  
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  The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers
  
  Michael Marshall - 31st January 2025
  
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  The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread
  
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  The Southport attack wasn’t ideologically motivated; the misinformation around it is
  
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  Understanding the origins of the 15-Minute City panic takes just 30 minutes
  
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  Richard Whittington-Egan - 25th February 2025
  
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  An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect
  
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  The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers
  
  Michael Marshall - 31st January 2025
  
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  People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures
  
  Lena Bohman - 29th January 2025
  
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  From the archive: Analysing handwriting analysis and graphology
  
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  Placebo surgery: why performing fake operations doesn’t actually help anyone
  
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New Year, New You, New Woo: 2025’s health and beauty ‘microtrends’

The abuse of the scientific method in so-called alternative medicine

Lemme Purr: the celebrity-backed wellness gummies trading on intimate insecurities

First do no harm? Treatments don’t need to be harmless, as long they do good

Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea

An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect

People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures

The anti-fluoridation movement is born of public health mistrust and misinformation

How genuine is cultural commentators’ ‘concern’ for OnlyFans model Lily Phillips?

Placebo surgery: why performing fake operations doesn’t actually help anyone

From the archive: Scratching Fanny – the accusant ghost of Cock Lane

The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers

From the archive: Martian waterways – the story of the canals of Mars

The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread

From the archive: Paul Daniels, the Philosophical Prestidigitator

Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump’s selective approach to immigration

Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal

The Southport attack wasn’t ideologically motivated; the misinformation around it is

Understanding the origins of the 15-Minute City panic takes just 30 minutes

Left-wing conspiracy theories and ‘missing’ votes in the wake of Trump’s election win

From the archive: Scratching Fanny – the accusant ghost of Cock Lane

Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump’s selective approach to immigration

Don’t Be A Dick: revisiting Phil Plait’s 2010 advice to skeptics

Project Blue Beam is finally happening… as long as you cherry pick very carefully

Alice Guo, the local Philippines town mayor accused of being a Chinese spy

An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect

The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers

People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures

From the archive: Analysing handwriting analysis and graphology

Placebo surgery: why performing fake operations doesn’t actually help anyone

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From the archive: Scratching Fanny – the accusant ghost of Cock Lane

Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump’s selective approach to immigration

Don’t Be A Dick: revisiting Phil Plait’s 2010 advice to skeptics

Project Blue Beam is finally happening… as long as you cherry pick very carefully

Alice Guo, the local Philippines town mayor accused of being a Chinese spy

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