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Hoaxes, Myths and Manias

Phil - 1st December 2008

Hoaxes, Myths and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking by Robert E Bartholomew and Benjamin Radford Prometheus, ISBN 1591020484 Readers of this journal will hardly need to...

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Why We Exist

Phil - 1st December 2008

Why We Exist: Inferences from Science for an Explanation of Human Purpose by Eugene Bell-Gam Pen Press Publishers Ltd, £9.99, ISBN 1-904018-86-6 Judging by the title alone...

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Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century

Phil - 1st December 2008

Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman by Angelique Richardson Oxford University Press, £45, ISBN 0198187009 Nowadays eugenics is a...

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Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology

Phil - 1st December 2008

Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr (Editors) Guilford Press, 2003, £31.95, ISBN 1572308281 This is a US...

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Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries?

Phil - 1st December 2008

Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics By Martin Gardner W. W. Norton...

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Immortal Remains: the evidence for life after death

Phil - 1st December 2008

Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death By Stephen E Braude Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, ISBN 0-7425-1472-2 “Rascals! Would you live for ever?”, Frederick the...

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Galileo’s Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Phil - 1st December 2008

Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science By Peter Atkins Oxford University Press 2003, £20.00, ISBN 0-19 860664-8 Richard Dawkins, quoted on the back cover, says Atkins...

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The Problem of the Soul: Two visions of mind and how to reconcile them

Paul Taylor - 1st December 2008

The Problem of the Soul: Two Visions of Mind and How to Reconcile Them by Owen Flanagan Basic Books, $16.95, ISBN 0465024610 This philosophical report on where...

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Lemme Purr: the celebrity-backed wellness gummies trading on intimate insecurities

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

Does pill packet branding change the placebo response, or is this just another placebo myth?

Studying the promotion of health misinformation by the Bolsonaro government

It’s far to soon too tell patients platelet-rich plasma injections can treat infertility

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

From the archive: Return To Silpho Moor – the Scarborough sky crash of 1957

Droning on: shedding a skeptical light on the New Jersey UAP panic

From the archive: The man who invented the flying saucer

From the archive: Memory, fantasy and past lives – reflections on past life regressions

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

Left-wing conspiracy theories and ‘missing’ votes in the wake of Trump’s election win

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

The assisted dying conversation requires sensitive and compassionate debate

From the archive: Return To Silpho Moor – the Scarborough sky crash of 1957

Ho Ho Holy Man? Why Santa technically doesn’t quite count as a god

Spotify Trapped? The algorithm is not what’s keeping you from new music

From the archive: A former Scientologist explains what the cult is all about

Will we soon face AI-related risks? Maybe, but they are probably overestimated

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

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