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Climate Change

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

Georgy Kurakin -
While a zombie-style fungal threat is incredibly unlikely, rising global temperatures mean we're increasingly at risk from a life-threatening fungal pathogen
Alternative Medicine

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

Alice Howarth -
Any benefits attributed to Alexander Technique are more than likely to be the results of exercise - the expensive programme itself is mostly an exercise in marketing
Health

Papaya and milk – the traditional Asian solution to breast augmentation

Rachel Ooi -
Societal pressures on women to have the perfect figure have led to all manner of proposed breast augmentation solutions - including, in TCM, drinking papaya mixed with milk
Climate Change

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

Michael Marshall -
The recent UK election saw conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers leave office, and pseudoscience candidates fail at the ballot box
Nutrition

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

Alice Howarth -
According to wellness influencers, so many of our symptoms are caused by adrenal fatigue - a false diagnosis, that stops us questioning the real stresses in our lives
Health

The Quantified Self: technological gimmick or genuine game changer?

Al Isthifah Bin Mazlan -
An obsession with tracking health data via wearables has led to the rise of the 'quantified self' movement - but is our data working for us, or the other way around?
Nutrition

Is the ultra-processed food fear simply the next big nutritional moral panic?

Alice Howarth -
Headline after headline warns about the supposed dangers of ultra-processed foods, but evidence that processing food causes poor health outcomes is lacking
Placebo Effect

Hotels and houseplants: why we should doubt Ellen Langer’s mind-over-matter miracles

Mike Hall -
Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer's research claims powerful mind-over-matter effects, based on small studies with implausible outcomes - we should be skeptical
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