Society

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

Alternative Medicine

The Nuremberg salt test: how homeopathy failed one of the earliest ever scientific trials

Sean Slater -
One of the earliest ever randomised control trials took place in 1835, when skeptical physicians put the new-fangled homeopathy to the test
Crime

The online circus around Nicola Bulley’s death shows what harm armchair detectives can do

Karin McClure -
The disappearance of Nicola Bulley saw armchair detectives, primed by a love of true crime and an over-abundance of confidence, flood the internet with uninformed and harmful speculation
Health

The science of The Last of Us: should we fear a fungal zombie pandemic?

Natália Pasternak -
The hit TV show The Last of Us depicts a world hit by a fungal-caused pandemic that turns the infected to zombies - but could it happen in real life?
Society

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating skeptical writers who are women

Alice Howarth -
For International Women's Day, we share articles from three of the writers who choose to share their skeptical insight with our readers
Philosophy

The Tao of Magical Thinking: pseudoscience in Jeremy Lent’s ‘The Web of Meaning’

Ted Lefroy -
In The Web of Meaning, Jeremy Lent favours convenient ideas over accurate, and in doing so repeatedly presents speculative and even disproven theories as facts
Health

Job’s QALY problem: Is the life of an existing child worth more than two future children?

Gabriel Andrade -
Allocating our medical resources based on QALY - or Quality of Life-Adjusted Years - is important, but it has to be applied logically, rather than religiously
Media

The Simpson’s prophecies: no, the long-running cartoon can’t predict the future

Mike Hall -
The long-standing myth that The Simpson's has an uncanny ability to predict the future is just a case of viewers scouring archives to connect dots that aren't there
Psychology

When we enforce our taboo against inbreeding, we shouldn’t pretend that nature agrees

James Williams -
Inbreeding is seen as a gross taboo in many parts of the world, but a new study suggests it is far more common in nature than we might be comfortable admitting.
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