Skepticism

From the archives: Hypnosis and the Occult

From the archives in 1990, H.B. Gibson debunks the links between hypnotism and the occult, and puts forward his own contemporary understanding of hypnotism

The Ockham Awards 2024: recognising the best in skepticism, and the worst in pseudoscience

Nominations for the 2024 Ockham Awards are now open, with our annual award for Skeptical Activism and our Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience.

From the archives: Romancing the Stone – The lure of alchemy continues

From the archives in 1990, Tom Ruffles examines the ongoing allure of alchemy

From the archives: Jacques Benoit’s (failed) experiments with telepathic snails

From the archives in 1988, Toby Howard recounts the 19th Century attempts to create a 'snail telegraph' - based on the notion that snails were telepathic

From the archives: Heaven and Earth – Is the ‘curse of Tutankhamen’ a curse at all?

From the archives in 1988, Mike Hutchinson examines the evidence for and against the supposed curse of Tutankhamen

From the archive: Explaining the Turin Shroud – the creation of a religious hoax

From the archives in 1988, Steve Donnelly interviews Joe Nickel on the Turin Shroud and how the hoax was created

From the archives: The ‘Saints and Martyrs’ of Parapsychology

From the archives in 1988, H.B. Gibson questions the role that fraud plays in parapsychology

From the archives: A historical Dutch UFO hunt – How one phone call roused all Amsterdam

From the archives in 1988, Marcel Huspas of the Dutch skeptics reports on a UFO hunt that caught the attention of all of Amsterdam
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