Society

When skepticism collides with human experience. The societal implications of scientific skepticism.

History

Five “zombie facts” about history that we need to consign to the past

Sean Slater -
From Viking horns and dirty serfs to the plucky underdog role of Britain in World War II, history is replete with oft-repeated – but factually incorrect – myths.
Conspiracy Theories

Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness

Aaron Rabinowitz -
Bill Hicks was a brilliant and passionate comedian, but one who was prone to conspiracy theory, high weirdness, and a proto-incel level of misogyny.
Science

Smoke and mirrors: violent media, cigarettes, and shaky statistics

Jim Cliff -
Is violent media as closely linked to aggression as smoking is to lung cancer? Only if you take at face value heavily cherry-picked research.
Bad PR

Gen Z don’t really think they’re psychic – at least no more so than their elders

Michael Marshall -
New "research" suggests that a third of Gen Z believe they have psychic intuition – based on an online survey with deep methodological flaws.
Religion

‘God: The Science, The Evidence, The Dawn of a Revolution’… and underwhelming apologetics

Aaron Rabinowitz -
'God: The Science, The Evidence, The Dawn of a Revolution', by Michel-Yves Bollore and Olivier Bonnassies, is nothing more than an intelligent design bait-and-switch
Religion

For a truly global humanist movement, we need an International Humanist Institute

Leo Igwe -
Humanism extends beyond Europe and America - to allow the movement to flourish worldwide, we must address the challenge of humanist leadership.
Bad PR

The ‘Quiet Revival’ in British religiosity was only ever a statistical mirage

Michael Marshall -
The much-heralded 'Quiet Revival' report on British youth religiosity has been withdrawn after its data was found to be fraudulent.
Religion

Are you sure that’s what they said? Down the rabbit hole of academic citations

Andrew Shail -
Academic writers should always take care to check their citations – or they can find themselves repeating assertions based on a misread of a misread.
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