Psychology

Biased about bias: as social creatures, we should try to understand where our biases come from

Richard Glover -
Guarding against bias is a fool's errand - instead of pretending we can ignore them, we should acknowledge biases, and put them into context.
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The Skeptic Podcast

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Paranormal

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History

The Tiffany Problem: the modern things that are counterintuitively much older than we assume

Sean Slater -
It's natural to map the world around us with heuristics, but sometimes they can lead us astray or even reveal our biases and bigotries.
Archive

From the archives: A Supernatural IQ? Investigating a claim to an extraordinary IQ

Andrew M Colman -
From the archives in 1993, Andrew M Colman questions contemporaneous claims of extraordinarily and implausibly high IQ scores.
Philosophy

Our universe is not just a computer simulation, but try telling that to the billionaires of Big Tech

Michael Marshall -
The theory that life is just a Matrix-like computer simulation has caught on in Silicon Valley and is taking on increasingly religious tones.
Vaccinations

Denialism as health policy: case study of US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Seth C. Kalichman -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the most senior figure in US health, has spent decades undermining vaccines, denying the reality of AIDS, and endangering Americans.
Nutrition

AG1 from Athletic Greens are arguably the Lazarus of nutritional supplements

Bronwyn Rideout -
Athletic Greens' "AG1" supplement range come with celebrity endorsements, slick marketing... and overblown nutritional claims.
Archive

From the archives: The Big Bang Controversy – A look at pseudoscience in cosmology  

Taner Edis -
From the archives in 1993, Taner Edis looks at what was known about the origin of the universe at the time, and the importance of critiquing current science.
Superstition

Samalia Bala’s arrest in Nigeria for witchcraft is a travesty – he must be released immediately

Leo Igwe -
The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) urges the Zamfara state government in Nigeria to release Samalia Bala, who has been falsely imprisoned for witchcraft.
Extremism

Everything I wish you didn’t need to know about race science and so-called “race realists”

James Klock -
Recent events thrust eugenics back into the public eye, but we should be under no illusions – the field of "race science" is thoroughly discredited.
Society

Socialwashing: How fair is ‘Fair Trade’, and how is the average consumer meant to know?

Thomas van Haaren -
Like its cousin 'greenwashing', 'socialwashing' uses confusing and unclear labelling to mislead consumers about the social impacts of a product.
Archive

From the archives: Psychic Diary – The Flixton Woodpecker

Toby Howard -
From the archives in 1993, Toby Howard explains how even mysterious tapping sounds that befuddle authorities can have perfectly natural origins.
Homeopathy

Meeting the burden of evidence: How homeopathy is like plate tectonics… and how it differs

Mark Horne -
Ideas once dismissed as scientifically implausible can turn out to be true - but only if they can meet the evidentiary burden required for proof.

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