Skepticism

From the archives: At the frontiers of science – cataloguing the anomalies and curiosities of nature

From the archives in 1993, William R Corliss summarises lessons learned from the first 86 issues of Science Frontiers magazine.

From the archives: Faces on Mars and Earth – Tales of gargantuan interplanetary human portraiture

From the archives in 1993, Robert McGrath is skeptical about the carving of a face on Mars, decades before higher resolutions debunked the pareidolia.

From the archives: Cyril Burt Reconsidered – Another look at the charges of fraud levelled against Burt

From the archives of July 1993, John C McLachlan picks back up the story of Cyril Burt, to question how much can be attributed to fraud, and how much to sloppiness.

From the archives: Sir Francis Galton, the Victorian polymath… and noted eugenicist

From the archives of July 1993, Russell Dear profiles the Victorian scientist, statistician, and eugenicist, Sir Francis Galton, followed by an addendum from Marianne Baker.

The online debate about halal and kosher meat uses animal welfare as a political weapon

Social media debates that use concerns over halal and kosher practices as a proxy for prejudice do nothing to further the cause of animal welfare.

From the archives: Psychic Diary – Two North Yorkshire oddities

From the archives of July 1993, Toby Howard reports from a North Yorkshire field trip to a tomb and a temple.

The Ockham Awards 2026: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience

Nominations for the 2026 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.

From the archives: Neural Networks and NDEs – Can a computer have a near-death experience?

From the archives of July 1993, David Bradbury on the experiments which claimed to show neural networks were capable of producing NDEs.
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