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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness: How do we measure happy countries?

Instead of measuring the success of countries by GDP, we should pay more attention to how happy they are, and what contributes to that happiness

From the archives: Premanand, Scourge of the Indian Godmen

From the archives in 1992, Lewis Jones reports from Indian skeptic and rationalist Premanand's public talk in London, about his life's work

A forgotten sceptic: William M. Knox, the one-eyed atheist of Belfast

Writing in the late 1800s, Irish atheist William M. Knox took aim at the emerging trend of spiritualism, séances, and communicating with the dead

J.D. Vance, religious conversion, and the battle over identity

J.D. Vance has been criticised for hoping his Hindu wife might convert to Catholicism, but does that differ from skeptics and atheists spreading doubt?

From the archives: examining the Creationists’ Argument from Design

From the archives in 1992, philosophy professor and author Antony Flew reviews the Creationist argument for a designer deity

Phantom Time Hypothesis – the supposedly ‘missing’ fortnight in 1752

When the calendar skipped two weeks in 1752, the cause wasn't 'phantom time', but the incompatibility of the Julian and Gregorian calendars

From the archives: the ‘Synchro-Energiser’ – a pseudoscientific panacea?

From the archives in 1992, psychiatrist Mike Heap looks at the Synchro-Energiser, a high-tech computer-driven 'brain balancer'.

Halloween for Skeptics: ‘Monsters on the Couch’ by Brian Sharpless

Horror stories, as well as being entertaining, give us clues about the human experience, as ‘Monsters on the Couch’ from Brian Sharpless explores
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