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Climate Change

The 2024 UK General Election came with lessons that skeptics should listen to

Mark Horne -
There have always been parties pushing fringe beliefs at elections, but Reform saw significant gains by courting the conspiracist vote - we need to pay attention
Science

What does p-hacking really mean, and why is it a problem?

David Weinberg -
P-hacking, or massaging of trial data and analysis in order to present a statistically relevant finding, distorts the scientific literature, and over-promotes dubious discoveries
Climate Change

Spirituality, sacredness, and positive thinking will not save us from the climate crisis

Marcelo Yamashita -
The solution to the climate crisis isn't to convince people to lean into spirituality and treat the earth as sacred - doing so merely distracts from holding the powerful to account
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
Religion

The supernormal confronts the supernatural in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s prophetic new series

Ted Lefroy -
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novels The Morning Star and The Wolves of Eternity offer a cautionary tale about Silicon Valley’s search for immortality
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
Climate Change

Toby Young’s Daily Sceptic and Free Speech Union are no allies of critical thinkers

Michael Marshall -
Toby Young's Daily Sceptic vociferously champions pseudoscientific conclusions, while his Free Speech Union defends those positions with which he agrees.
Science

The evidence from plant neurobiology for the sentience of plants is far from well-grounded

Georgy Kurakin -
Plant neurobiologists have come to promote the idea that plants have a form of rudimentary sentience, but the evidence is slim, and the explanation is unnecessary
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