Skepticism

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

Toby Young’s Daily Sceptic and Free Speech Union are no allies of critical thinkers

Toby Young's Daily Sceptic vociferously champions pseudoscientific conclusions, while his Free Speech Union defends those positions with which he agrees.

From the archives: Astrology, Gauquelin and the real explanation for the “Mars Effect”

From the archives in 1988, physicist Anthony Garrett picks apart a study of European sports stars that claimed to prove the validity of astrology.

From the archives: A dowsing-dedicated day in the country

From the archives in 1988, Denys Parsons attends a rather disappointing display of dowsing, alongside BBC Oxford

Blinded By The Light: countering extremist disinformation in Glastonbury

In Glastonbury, deep in the very heartlands of British spirituality and mysticism, local community groups are pushing back against far right conspiracy theories

Immunity to fake news: ‘Foolproof’ gives us vaccination without needles

Sander van der Linden’s Foolproof seeks to identify why we fall for fake news, and how we can defend ourselves against believing falsehoods
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