Society

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

Conspiracy Theories

The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK

Brian Eggo -
With Reform UK making gains in the recent local elections, parts of the UK now boast councillors with all manner of questionable beliefs.
History

The Nobel Prize-winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive

Tom Williamson -
History is replete with scientists whose brilliance won them a Nobel Prize – only to go on to tarnish their legacy by promoting quackery and pseudoscience.
History

The Odyssey of Helen’s skin colour: casting controversies and bad philology

Gabriel Andrade -
We don't have to rewrite Greek history to centre African influences in order to argue that a fictional character like Helen of Troy could be played by a black actor.
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
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