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

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EUREKA! The Birth of Science

Paul Taylor - 2nd December 2008

Eureka!: The Birth of Science by Andrew Gregory Icon Books UK, £6.99, ISBN 1840463740 Books on philosophy are often encyclopeadic and hard to digest, interesting but boring;...

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Darwin and the Barnacle

Paul Taylor - 2nd December 2008

Darwin and the Barnacle by Rebecca Stott Faber, £14.99, ISBN 0571209661 What happens when someone brought up as a strict Christian fundamentalist abandons her faith and writes...

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Bad Medicine

Paul Taylor - 2nd December 2008

Bad Medicine: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Christopher Wanjek Wiley & Sons, $15.95, ISBN 047143499X In this enjoyable history of quackery,...

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Skeptical Odysseys

Phil - 2nd December 2008

Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers by Paul KurtzPrometheus Books, $27, ISBN 1573928844It’s almost impossible to summarise this brick of...

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Darwin’s Mistake: Antediluvian Discoveries Prove Dinosaurs and Humans co-existed

Phil - 2nd December 2008

Darwin's Mistake: Antediluvian Discoveries Proves Dinosaurs and Humans Co-existed By Dr. Hans J ZillmerFrontier Publishing (Netherlands), £14.99, ISBN 193188207X“The system of evolution seems convincing”,...

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Rivals: Conflict as the Fuel of Science

Phil - 2nd December 2008

Rivals: Conflict as the Fuel of Science by Michael WhiteVintage, £7.99, ISBN 0436204630Michael White’s latest book takes as its theme the role of personal,...

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The Mammoth Book of UFOs

Phil - 2nd December 2008

The Mammoth Book of UFO's by Lynn Picknett Carroll & Graf Publishers, £7.50, ISBN 078670800X Separating the hundreds of rubbishy UFO books from the true reference books...

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The Mind Made Flesh: Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution

Phil - 2nd December 2008

The Mind Made Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution by Nicholas Humphrey Oxford University Press, £11.99, ISBN 0-19-280227-5 Perhaps the first thing to be...

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First do no harm? Treatments don’t need to be harmless, as long they do good

Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea

Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya

Wim Hof: the self-described ‘Ice man’ whose extreme health claims leave many cold

Menstrual masking: the inadvisable trend of treating acne… with period blood

First do no harm? Treatments don’t need to be harmless, as long they do good

Pacemakers don’t work when they’re switched off – we should doubt studies that say otherwise

Moroccan Argan oil is an interesting traditional product, but it’s certainly no panacea

Animals, acupuncture and alt-med: the Brazilian penguin being subjected to Enya

The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it

From the archive: Many Happy Returns – Are past-life regressions evidence for reincarnation?

From the archives: The Art of Fakery – Fakes and forgeries at the British Museum

From the archives: A skeptical look at astrology

When it comes to science, the standard has to be truth and accuracy – not false balance

From the archives: UFOs Over Russia

Comparing misinformation to a virus is both accurate and useful in preventing its spread

2000 mules: why many Americans are convinced Trump won the 2020 election

Welcome to the modern American Right – the world that high weirdness built

Donald Trump’s debate performance proved he has mainstreamed extreme conspiracy theories

Med Beds: the futuristic health devices promising to cure you with undefined energy

The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics

From the archive: Many Happy Returns – Are past-life regressions evidence for reincarnation?

Faking the faking of fake news, 1910 style: the ‘death’ of film star Florence Lawrence

Unborn in the USA: being honest about IUDs could help us fight the anti-abortion movement

Exploding the myth of the longevity “Blue Zones”, where people live beyond the age of 100

Scientific publication is now fully digital – so who is responsible for preserving our archives?

HADD its day: there’s no evidence for an inherited hyperactive agency detection device

Unborn in the USA: being honest about IUDs could help us fight the anti-abortion movement

The evidence for pill colour impacting placebo effects gets flimsier the more you examine it

Comparing misinformation to a virus is both accurate and useful in preventing its spread

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First do no harm? Treatments don’t need to be harmless, as long they do good

Pacemakers don’t work when they’re switched off – we should doubt studies that say otherwise

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Scientific publication is now fully digital – so who is responsible for preserving our archives?

From the archive: Many Happy Returns – Are past-life regressions evidence for reincarnation?

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