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From the archive: Analysing handwriting analysis and graphology

Barrie Whitaker -
From the archive in 1991, Barrie Whitaker looks at graphology's claims that handwriting analysis provides information on personality
Placebo Effect

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

Mike Hall -
Placebo surgeries do not work – if a surgery performs no better than placebo, it means that operation doesn't work, not that placebos are powerful
Technology

Will we soon face AI-related risks? Maybe, but they are probably overestimated

Georgy Kurakin -
AI poses an unprecedented challenge for scientific integrity, but AI is just a tool. Its value, good or ill, comes from people using it
Science

Scientific publication is now fully digital – so who is responsible for preserving our archives?

Cesar Baima -
Now journals have moved away from paper publications, our access to our ongoing history of discovery and innovation relies entirely on digital archives
Psychology

HADD its day: there’s no evidence for an inherited hyperactive agency detection device

Kat Ford -
That our superstitious beliefs can be explained by an inherited trait for hyperactive agency detection is simple, elegant... and not remotely evidence-based
Science

Unborn in the USA: being honest about IUDs could help us fight the anti-abortion movement

Colin Brewer -
We shouldn't shy away from the fact that IUDs are abortifacients - embracing it could help highlight the hypocrisy of anti-abortionists
Placebo Effect

The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it

Mike Hall -
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
Conspiracy Theories

Comparing misinformation to a virus is both accurate and useful in preventing its spread

Sander van der Linden -
In response to a recent article in The Skeptic, Professor Sander van der Linden argues that there is value and validity to the misinformation-as-virus analogy
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