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

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.

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

The much-heralded 'Quiet Revival' report on British youth religiosity has been withdrawn after its data was found to be fraudulent.

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

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

Why aliens look like demons to US Vice President JD Vance

In expressing his belief that aliens are actually demonic in nature, JD Vance reveals the instincts of his political base are to fear the different and unknown.

An anatomy of infamy: What constitutes “evil”?

Philosophers, theologians, psychologists and sociologists have tried for centuries to understand whether 'evil' exists, and how to identify it.
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