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Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola
Michael Marshall
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19th March 2025
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Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar shows the shameless reality of Belle Gibson’s fraud
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Alice Howarth
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10th February 2025
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The abuse of the scientific method in so-called alternative medicine
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Thiago Vahia Malliagros
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21st March 2025
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Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola
Michael Marshall
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19th March 2025
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Paging Dr Superstitious: Why Singaporean medics believe steamed buns are bad luck
Bruce Phang
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5th March 2025
Placebo Effect
The Beecher story, the origin of the placebo effect myth, likely didn’t happen
Mike Hall
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26th February 2025
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Leaked footage reveals the ‘psychic’ behind antivaxxer Joseph Mercola
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19th March 2025
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From the archive: Roswell Revisited in 1991 – the final crash of the UFOs?
Christopher Allan
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11th March 2025
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Paging Dr Superstitious: Why Singaporean medics believe steamed buns are bad luck
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5th March 2025
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A psychic child bride and ghostly inspiration: the invention of chiropractic
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17th March 2025
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14th March 2025
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24th February 2025
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Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal
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The Southport attack wasn’t ideologically motivated; the misinformation around it is
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Humans long to cheat death, but is there any validity to life extension technology?
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21st March 2025
Placebo Effect
The Beecher story, the origin of the placebo effect myth, likely didn’t happen
Mike Hall
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26th February 2025
Placebo Effect
An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect
Mike Hall
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3rd February 2025
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The Telepathy Tapes is wrong – autistic children don’t have supernatural powers
Michael Marshall
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31st January 2025
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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
Argan oil from Morocco is said to have all manner of health benefits, from preventing hair loss to boosting the immune system - all based on little to no evidence
Alternative Medicine
Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya
Natália Pasternak
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11th November 2024
A recently rescued penguin in Rio de Janeiro is being treated with acupuncture, cannabinoids and music therapy - despite a total lack of evidence
Placebo Effect
The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it
Mike Hall
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6th November 2024
The idea that the colour of a pill influences what placebo response you get is based on a succession of badly designed or badly interpreted trials
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The secret to a year-round tan – eating so many carrots you turn orange?
Alice Howarth
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17th October 2024
Viral claims suggest a new way to give your skin that sun-kissed glow: eating so many carrots you turn orange from carotenosis.
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The real-world harm of nutritional misinformation
Maeve Hanan
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16th October 2024
Fad diets and dubious claims about nutrition have always been popular, but with social media, avoiding bad food advice seems harder than ever
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Does the colour of a pill really influence what kind of placebo effect you’ll experience?
Mike Hall
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30th September 2024
It's said that pill colour influences what placebo effect people experience, but the primary source for this claim is flimsy at best
Placebo Effect
Religion is simply a powerful placebo – offering priests a sense of ritual, but little else
Colin Brewer
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23rd September 2024
Theatrical but ultimately ineffective, religion may be the ultimate placebo effect - as 17th Century priest Jean Meslier realised 300 years ago
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Nobody undergoes egg donation for the money – it is about altruism, not exploitation
Emma McClure
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18th September 2024
Egg donors will see a raise in compensation from next month, but campaign groups are wrong when they say this incentivises people to donate
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