It is a common skeptical mantra that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - but is this true, or is it simply setting unlikely ideas up to fail?
UFO believers claim a grand CIA-funded conspiracy is hiding the truth about UFOs on Wikipedia, but editors of the world's largest encylopaedia are just following the site's rules
If we want to better understand what's going on in situations like the Israeli-Gaza conflict, we need to be aware of our biases, and how to mitigate their impact
A cardiologist who has spent the pandemic spreading Covid vaccine misinformation, Dr Aseem Malhotra, has today been named the 2022 recipient of the “Rusty Razor” award
As pseudoscience flourishes in Brazil, What Nonsense! by Carlos Orsi and Natalia Pasternak seeks to redress the balance, and push back against irrationality
