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Origins: the scientific story of creation – Jim Baggott

Paul Taylor - 9th July 2018

OUP ISBN: 9780198707646 This is a fasten-your-seat-belt ride all the way from the Planck Epoch to the dawning of consciousness, the consciousness that the world has...

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A Numerate Life by John Allen Paulos

Paul Taylor - 18th June 2018

Prometheus, ISBN 1633881180 As an avid reader of Paulos's books since the 1990s - such as Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences, and Beyond Numeracy:...

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The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Paul Taylor - 18th November 2009

Oxford University Press, £13.99, ISBN 0195313682 Snake Oil Science: the Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine By R. Barker Bausell Reviewed by Ray Ward Bausell covers the rise...

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The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers

Paul Taylor - 18th November 2009

Profile Books, £7.99 (pb), ISBN 1846681111 The Tiger That Isn’t: Seeing Through a World of Numbers by Michael Blastland and Andrew DilnotReviewed by Michael HuttonOur lives...

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Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal

Paul Taylor - 26th March 2009

OUP, £20.00, ISBN 978-0-19-923920-7 A decade ago, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont published Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science, a book written to provide...

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Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings – Both Serious and Whimsical by Martin Gardner

Paul Taylor - 26th March 2009

Prometheus Books, ISBN-10: 1591025656 Another Gardner book is always good news, for both skeptics and aficionados of science and mathematics. Over the last fifty years,...

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Counter-Knowledge: How we Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History by Damian Thompson

Paul Taylor - 26th March 2009

Atlantic Books, £7.99 (pb), ISBN 10: 1843546760 This book is an impressive new addition to the now well-established genre of sceptical works critiquing largely irrational...

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The Paperback Apocalypse: how the Christian Church was left behind by Robert M. Price

Paul Taylor - 26th March 2009

Prometheus Books, £12.99 (pb), ISBN-10: 1591025834 This book could probably only have been published in America, though it may not be as widely read there...

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

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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

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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

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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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