Society

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

Psychology

Comparing misinformation to a virus is neither accurate nor useful in preventing its spread

Ariana Modirrousta-Galian, Phil Higham, Tina Seabrooke -
Portraying misinformation as a virus assumes we're all equally susceptible, and risks distracting us from solutions to the problem it poses
Archive

From the archives: UFOs Over Russia

Tom Ruffles -
From the archives in 1990, Tom Ruffles asks whether the UFOs seen over Russia were alien visitors taking advantage of glasnost
Moral Panics

The wealthy, conservative American Christian groups pushing anti-abortion protests in the UK

Michael Marshall -
"Woman arrested for praying" is the latest in a string of legal cases used by US conservative Christian organisations to fight against progress in the UK
Society

Are ‘gacha’ games and loot boxes merely gambling in disguise?

Shao Zihang -
Gacha video games - where players pay real money for a chance at winning digital items - are a poorly regulated space that can become as exploitative as gambling
Politics

JD Vance is right – for anti-intellectuals like him, the professors are the enemy

Edzard Ernst -
Professors seek the truth, and the truth is something that politicians like JD Vance fear, because it can reveal their agenda as being fascist.
Philosophy

A search for meming: fighting the mind-virus virus

Blake Smith -
The meme of religion as a "mind virus" oversimplifies how we come to our beliefs, and actively harms our attempts to encourage people to question dogma
Science

Racism is a real phenomenon, but that doesn’t mean that the idea of “biological race” is real

Natália Pasternak -
Just because some people will discriminate against others due to their appearance and racial identity, that doesn't make the notion of 'biological race' true.
Archive

From the archives: What is Hypnosis?

Lewis Jones -
From the archives in 1990, Lewis Jones takes a skeptical look at the history of hypnotism, and the studies that sought to understand it
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