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“Operation Bucharest”: a bizarre insight into the mind of Christian propagandist Jack Chick

Jack Chick may be best known for his Christian propaganda 'Chick Tracts', but it is in his comic books that we get the clearest insight into his ideology

Hollow Earth flying saucers: the bossa-nova of pseudoscience

The belief in a hollow earth - filled with inhabitants, animals and aliens - can be traced back, in part, to the new-age movement in Brazil

Creating a Monster: the case of Eachy, the Wikipedia monster of Bassenthwaite

The online life (and eventual death) of Eachy, the monster of Bassenthwaite lake, shows the potential risk of feedback loops in Wikipedia's citation policies

How and why to set up and run your own Skeptics in the Pub group: top 10 tips

Running a Skeptics in the Pub group can be enormously rewarding, and following these top 10 tips will help make yours a success!

The mystery of Glastonbury Abbey: On knowing more than we know we know

While the messages at Glastonbury Abbey almost certainly did not come from spirits, a number of studies have shown that they may not have been created by deliberate fraud

Could my boob job really make me ill? Understanding Breast Implant Illness claims

Patients who believe they are suffering from Breast Implant Illness are often experiencing real symptoms, and we ought to take their concerns seriously

Bizarre double death: spontaneous human combustion, or merely tragic coincidence?

Alice Ann Kirby and her little sister Amy died in separate, mysterious fires - some claim spontaneous human combustion explains the double tragedy

MSG and the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome: the persistence of a nutritional myth

Fears around "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" and MSG are based on a letter to the New English Journal of Medicine... later revealed to be a hoax
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