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Shao Zihang is a final-year Information Systems student at Singapore Management University. He has a fascination with Japanese culture and enjoys playing video games in his free time.

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Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

Shao Zihang - 6th September 2024

Gacha video games - where players pay real money for a chance at winning digital items - are a poorly regulated space that can become as exploitative as gambling

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

13th September 2024

Beware of commercial microbiome tests: how at-home testing can mislead consumers

11th September 2024

From the archives: UFOs Over Russia

10th September 2024

The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK

9th September 2024

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

6th September 2024

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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

Papaya and milk – the traditional Asian solution to breast augmentation

False diagnoses like ‘adrenal fatigue’ offer us simplistic solutions to our stressful lives

Research into homeopathy: data falsification, fabrication and manipulation

Beware of commercial microbiome tests: how at-home testing can mislead consumers

Med Beds: the futuristic health devices promising to cure you with undefined energy

Overly simplistic headlines muddy the water around placebo effects and mislead the public

We shouldn’t fear a “zombie fungus”, like The Last of Us… but a threat from fungi is real

An awareness of your body is useful, but the Alexander Technique probably isn’t

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

From the archives: Heaven and Earth – Is the ‘curse of Tutankhamen’ a curse at all?

Decades on, we still haven’t fully learned the right lessons from the Satanic Panic

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

What does the recent UK election mean for skepticism and pseudoscience?

Taylor Swift conspiracy theories owe more to misogyny than the Illuminati

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

From the archives: UFOs Over Russia

The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

JD Vance is right – for anti-intellectuals like him, the professors are the enemy

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

Beware of commercial microbiome tests: how at-home testing can mislead consumers

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

Overly simplistic headlines muddy the water around placebo effects and mislead the public

Racism is a real phenomenon, but that doesn’t mean that the idea of “biological race” is real

Shao Zihang

Latest news

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

Beware of commercial microbiome tests: how at-home testing can mislead consumers

From the archives: UFOs Over Russia

The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

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