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An overdose on placebo pills can cause adverse reactions… but not because of the nocebo effect
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People with Alzheimer’s deserve care and dignity – not false hope of miracle cures
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From the archive: Scratching Fanny – the accusant ghost of Cock Lane
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The Southport attack wasn’t ideologically motivated; the misinformation around it is
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From the archives: The Demise of Parapsychology, 1850-2009
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1st April 2005
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1st January 2005
From the archives, Scott Wood begins his two-part assessment on the fabled Angels of Mons by unearthing their origins
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22nd January 2004
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The mosaic of memory: how we constantly rewrite our memories of our past
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1st January 2004
From the archives, Chris French considers the nature of memory.
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