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History

Time Team’s archaeologists showed us how experts can ruthlessly unpick a hoax

Paul Duncan McGarrity -
Channel 4's archaeology show Time Team's quiet destruction of a would-be hoaxer was a glorious illustration of the power of calm, patient expertise
Conspiracy Theories

From scam product ads to conspiracy theories, misinformation always adapts to survive

Michael Marshall -
The techniques developed by affiliate marketers to spread scam products mirrors the way in which conspiracy theories nimbly adapt to spread misinformation
Archive

Technophobia: Facebook and computers cause cancer; typewriters apparently don’t

Mark Williams -
From the archives in 2011, Mark Williams looks at media scaremongering around technology being to blame for social ills
Archive

Levity on the Web: how the internet facilitates pseudoscience – and skepticism

Steve Donnelly -
From the archives, Steve Donnelly reflects on the role of the internet in spreading and promoting pseudoscience - and allowing skeptics to expose it
Media

Shirley Ghostman and me

Nick Pullar -
From time to time I get contacted by TV shows wanting a skeptic to spar against a psychic. This time a producer from Tiger Aspect wanted me for a show they were doing on psychics for BBC2.
Archive

From the archives: Nick Pullar – Shirley Ghostman and me

Nick Pullar -
From the archives in 2005, Nick Pullar recollects his run with the mysterious and bewildering TV psychic, Shirley Ghostman
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