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A psychic child bride and ghostly inspiration: the invention of chiropractic
Michael Marshall
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28th February 2025
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New Year, New You, New Woo: 2025’s health and beauty ‘microtrends’
Alice Howarth
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10th February 2025
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The abuse of the scientific method in so-called alternative medicine
Edzard Ernst
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27th January 2025
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Lemme Purr: the celebrity-backed wellness gummies trading on intimate insecurities
Alice Howarth
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18th December 2024
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First do no harm? Treatments don’t need to be harmless, as long they do good
Edzard Ernst
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27th November 2024
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The Beecher story, the origin of the placebo effect myth, likely didn’t happen
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26th February 2025
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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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People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures
Lena Bohman
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29th January 2025
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The anti-fluoridation movement is born of public health mistrust and misinformation
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24th January 2025
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How genuine is cultural commentators’ ‘concern’ for OnlyFans model Lily Phillips?
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A psychic child bride and ghostly inspiration: the invention of chiropractic
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28th February 2025
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From the archive: Scratching Fanny – the accusant ghost of Cock Lane
Richard Whittington-Egan
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25th 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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From the archive: Martian waterways – the story of the canals of Mars
Sean O'Brian
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28th January 2025
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The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how panics spread
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15th January 2025
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24th February 2025
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Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal
Serdar Basegmez
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14th February 2025
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The Southport attack wasn’t ideologically motivated; the misinformation around it is
Michael Marshall
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7th February 2025
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Understanding the origins of the 15-Minute City panic takes just 30 minutes
Tim Jokl
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5th February 2025
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Left-wing conspiracy theories and ‘missing’ votes in the wake of Trump’s election win
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9th December 2024
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A psychic child bride and ghostly inspiration: the invention of chiropractic
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28th February 2025
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From the archive: Scratching Fanny – the accusant ghost of Cock Lane
Richard Whittington-Egan
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25th February 2025
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Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump’s selective approach to immigration
Dave Hahn
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24th February 2025
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Don’t Be A Dick: revisiting Phil Plait’s 2010 advice to skeptics
Sean Slater
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21st February 2025
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Project Blue Beam is finally happening… as long as you cherry pick very carefully
Nick Garratt
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19th February 2025
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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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People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures
Lena Bohman
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29th January 2025
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The Battersea Poltergeist, and the role of the paranormal investigator
Deborah Hyde
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24th May 2021
The Battersea Poltergeist demonstrates how supposedly supernatural phenomena need attention and validation to thrive
Ghosts
Have we seen the last of the vanishing phantom hitchhiker?
Deborah Hyde
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13th January 2021
Familiarity and caution may have killed off the story of the phantom hitchhiker, but our draw towards creepy tales will always find an outlet.
Ghosts
Ghosts, curses and werewolves: archaeologists see human belief up close
Paul Duncan McGarrity
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30th October 2020
Dealing with human remains teaches us we don't have to share somebody's belief to respect them - as long as those beliefs aren't causing harm
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Has the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increase in ghostly encounters?
Chris French
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15th October 2020
With pandemic-related anxiety and stress causing an increase in experience of sleep paralysis, we may well see an uptick in paranormal belief.
Ghosts
Electrician sheds light on viral Birmingham ghost mystery
Hayley Stevens
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3rd September 2020
Hayley Stevens explains how the recent ghost captured on a Birmingham CCTV camera may have a far more mundane explanation.
Ghosts
Do ghosts exist? If not, why do we see them?
Deborah Hyde
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4th February 2018
This is the deceptively simple question I ask at the beginning of every episode of the Haunted podcast. The show features ghost stories that...
Archive
From the archives: Galileo’s Doughnuts – The day I saw a ghost
Mark Duwe
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20th April 2012
From the archives in 2012, Mark Duwe recounts the day he felt sure he saw a ghost... and what he may have actually seen
Archive
The Psychological Reality of Haunts and Poltergeists – Part II: An Advanced Model
James Houran
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Rense Lange
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4th October 2002
From the archives, Rense Lange and James Houran propose a more advanced model of the psychological processes underlying hauntings and poltergeists.
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