Society

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

Extremism

#TradWife: the misogynistic movement based on cosplaying an American ideal

Claire Klingenberg -
The #TradWife movement claims to offer women a simple, structured and idealised life. In reality, it reduces women to property, in service to white nationalist agendas
Skepticism

Do extraordinary claims really require extraordinary evidence?

David Weinberg -
It is a common skeptical mantra that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - but is this true, or is it simply setting unlikely ideas up to fail?
Health

Does a prohibition-based approach to drugs and disposable vaping make sense?

Clio Bellenis -
The government are often swift to ban recreational drugs, even without evidence of harm - but when it comes to disposable vapes, are they right?
Climate Change

Electronic advertising is a climate crime that makes our public spaces more hostile

Michael Marshall -
The giant screen at Euston Station boasts of saving energy, while using more electricity than the average street, just to serve us adverts we didn't consent to see
Media

The Wikipedia conspiracy that wasn’t; or, why Wikipedia says Roswell was a balloon

Robert Jones -
UFO believers claim a grand CIA-funded conspiracy is hiding the truth about UFOs on Wikipedia, but editors of the world's largest encylopaedia are just following the site's rules
History

The strange and deeply unlikely tale of Gef the talking mongoose

Sean Slater -
Gef the talking mongoose - supernatural resident of an Isle of Man farmhouse - is legendary in skeptical lore... even if he was merely the invention of a 13 year old girl
Extremism

Blue Pill or Red Pill: the effects of “The Pill Cabinet” and the formation of incel worldviews

Eunice Lim -
Misogynistic and glorifying violence, the incel movement is a misguided reaction to feminism, and the idea that a loss of privilege is a form of oppression
Psychology

Could ASMR be a possible explanation for some new age and spiritual experiences?

Mark Horne -
Reports of autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR, bear a striking resemblance to the way some people describe their experience of reiki... and of religion
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