History

History

Back-masking: you can’t always hear what you want

Sean Slater -
During the Satanic Panic, paranoia that rock music included sinister messages via 'back-masking' made it all the way into the courtroom
History

DNA analysis almost certainly hasn’t just solved the mystery of Jack the Ripper

Mike Hall -
DNA analysis claiming that Jack the Ripper was a Polish barber are based less in science and more in our morbid fascination with serial killers
History

NATO was created to ensure peace – disinformation seeks to undermine that

Tom Williamson -
NATO exists to defend its members – the current wave of misinformation around NATO aggression exists purely to undermine that aim
Chiropractic

A psychic child bride and ghostly inspiration: the invention of chiropractic

Michael Marshall -
Daniel David Palmer, the inventor of chiropractic, claimed his movement was inspired by spiritual communication with the ghost of a doctor
History

Huge social media accounts glorify ancient architecture, while whitewashing the past

Mark Horne -
Social media accounts dedicated to ancient architecture too often glorifying the building while ignoring the circumstances of its construction
History

Faking the faking of fake news, 1910 style: the ‘death’ of film star Florence Lawrence

Andrew Shail -
Fake news is nothing new - film promoters have known for over a century that successfully selling a fake news story takes a degree of cunning
History

The 2024 Olympics ceremony raises the spectre of pagan influence on the origins of Christianity

Gabriel Andrade -
Christians offended by their misinterpretation of the Olympics opening ceremony are clearly ignorant of the pagan influences on their religion
Archive

From the archives: Jacques Benoit’s (failed) experiments with telepathic snails

Toby Howard -
From the archives in 1988, Toby Howard recounts the 19th Century attempts to create a 'snail telegraph' - based on the notion that snails were telepathic
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