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

Michael Marshall -
Nominations for the 2026 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.
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From the archives: Neural Networks and NDEs – Can a computer have a near-death experience?

David Bradbury -
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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From the archives: Cold fusion heats up

Chris Tinsley -
From the archives of May 1993, Chris Tinsley urges caution in writing off cold fusion experiments, before they had been proven to be a hoax.
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From the archives: Trial by television – being the token skeptic on a TV talk show

Wendy M. Grossman -
From the archives of May 1993, Wendy Grossman appears on Anglia Live to talk about ghosts, and meets the Grimsby Ghostbusters.
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From the archives: In praise of stone circles – not for their psychic properties, but their human stories

Toby Howard -
From the archives of May 1993, Toby Howard fails to feel the "Earth energy" at the stone circle of Castlerigg near Keswick.
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From the archives: Rajneesh – The rise and fall of a modern ‘god’

Brian Morris -
From the archives of May 1993, anthropologist Brian Morris documents the life and fall of failed guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
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From the archives: Spirit guides and after-images – seeing is not necessarily believing

Colin Sutherland -
From the archives of May 1993, Colin Sutherland noticeably fails to see a spirit guide at a hypnosis demonstration - but does see an after-image.
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From the archives: A metallurgical miracle? All that glisters is not gold

Dave Mitchell, Paul Munro -
From the archives of March 1993, Paul Munro and Dave Mitchell scientifically investigate an alleged miracle in which silver turned to gold.
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