No lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s intellectual equal - The Skeptic

While common retelling of the story paints Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace as rivals, in truth they were intellectual equals.

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From the archives: Cold fusion heats up - The Skeptic

From the archives of May 1993, Chris Tinsley urges caution in writing off cold fusion experiments, before they had been proven to be a hoax.

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Why does the political right still hate electric vehicles and dismiss green energy? - The Skeptic

Electric vehicles and clean energy technology are real, current, and effective solutions - so why are the right wing still so opposed?

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Why does the political right still hate electric vehicles and dismiss green energy? - The Skeptic

Electric vehicles and clean energy technology are real, current, and effective solutions - so why are the right wing still so opposed?

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The Skeptic Podcast - Episode 075 - The Skeptic

Featuring articles from Brian Eggo (September 2020), Robyn Lowe (April 2022), Aaron Rabinowitz (February 2022), and Alice Howarth (May 2022).

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The seemingly impossible task of getting access to the Ariel UFOs 'Impossible Archive' - The Skeptic

After John Mack died, his Ariel UFO encounter archive was meant to be made available to the public - two decades later, we are still waiting.

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The digital crawfish has you in its net: why your AI "Digital Employee" is a career trap - The Skeptic

If AI speedily performs tasks that once were delegated to interns, junior employees lose the chance to gain vital knowledge and experience.

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From the archives: Trial by television - being the token skeptic on a TV talk show - The Skeptic

From the archives of May 1993, Wendy Grossman appears on Anglia Live to talk about ghosts, and meets the Grimsby Ghostbusters.

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Extraordinary claims, modest evidence: reincarnation, and the limits of parapsychology - The Skeptic

Ian Stevenson set out to scientifically investigate reincarnation - while he failed to find any credible cases, his efforts warrant respect.

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The Skeptic Podcast - Episode 074 - The Skeptic

Featuring articles from Aaron Rabinowitz (August 2022), Michael Marshall (April 2025), Armadeo Sarma (November 2022), and Edzard Ernst (March 2023).

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We can ban under 16s from social media, but children are not the most at risk from radicalisation - The Skeptic

While the UK has moved to restrict access to social media for children, Facebook and Twitter continue to radicalise people of all ages.

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From growing basil to curing disease, pseuodscientists find support in the Qu'ran - The Skeptic

While pseudoscience is not unique to Islam, it is important to challenge where the Qur’an is used to support clearly pseudoscientific ideas.

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Get a longer little doggy: can we really double our dog’s lifespan? - The Skeptic

We all want more time with our pets, but there is no product to buy or diet to follow that will hold back the clock on canine longevity.

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The Skeptic Podcast - Episode 073 - The Skeptic

Featuring articles from Brian Eggo (September 2020), Robyn Lowe (April 2022), Aaron Rabinowitz (February 2022), and Alice Howarth (May 2022).

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The underwhelming reality of the White House's own 'Disclosure Day' - The Skeptic

The White House released their own "Disclosure Day" tranche of UFO files - and the result was the dampest of damp squibs.

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NI company featured in UK-wide bus ads previously fell foul of watchdog for misleading health claims

Firm was censured over user reviews of products

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Is the origin of government itself actually just a conspiracy to oppress us? - The Skeptic

Conspiracy theories like to posit that the idea of government was invented to extract their wealth and power - history suggests otherwise.

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From the archives: Rajneesh – The rise and fall of a modern 'god' - The Skeptic

From the archives of May 1993, anthropologist Brian Morris documents the life and fall of failed guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

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Identifying the mysterious and legendary ground shark of the Timor Sea - The Skeptic

Legends tell of a ferocious man-eating "ground shark" that terrorises divers in the Timor Sea - but behind the myths is a very real creature.

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The Skeptic Podcast - Episode 072 - The Skeptic

Featuring articles from Chris French (August 2021), Alfie Hoar (January 2022), Dave Hahn (August 2021), and Tim Jokl (August 2025).

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Good skin, good girl: the subtle misogyny of the ‘no make-up’ look - The Skeptic

The 'no make-up' trend isn't just to look good, but to do so effortlessly - adhering to expectations that women are never "too much".

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Green rapture: Sarah Wilson's best-selling guide to the apocalypse for the worried well - The Skeptic

Sarah Wilson's 'I Eat The Stars’ posits that societal collapse is inevitable - but her evidence is weak, and her arguments highly-selective.

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From the archives: Spirit guides and after-images - seeing is not necessarily believing - The Skeptic

From the archives of May 1993, Colin Sutherland fails to see a spirit guide at a hypnosis demonstration - but does see an after-image.

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Adult movies were not the reason Betamax really lost the video wars - The Skeptic

According to a popular myth, Betamax lost out to VHS because of adult content - in reality, it was down to tape length, and licensing.

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The radicalisation of "Joan": a true-life account of one colleague's slide into conspiracism

I knew it was time to leave, when I heard her say "Hitler was just misunderstood, that's all. He was actually a hero if you think about it. The only...

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Faith, Power, and Inconsistency: The Problem with J.D. Vance’s Conversion Narrative - The Skeptic

In "Communion", JD Vance seeks to explain his Catholicism, but illustrates only the dangers of putting religion at the heart of politics.

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The Skeptic Podcast - Episode 071 - The Skeptic

Featuring articles from Victoria Stiles (December 2020), Chris French (July 2021), Dave Hahn (August 2021), and Alif Yahya (July 2021).

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The Kidd-Palmer Maps conclusively proven to be a hoax lifted directly from fiction - The Skeptic

Almost a century after their discovery, the mysterious Kidd-Palmer treasure maps are proven to be a hoax, their source in fiction identified.

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From the archives: A metallurgical miracle? All that glisters is not gold - The Skeptic

From the archives of March 1993, Paul Munro and Dave Mitchell scientifically investigate an alleged miracle in which silver turned to gold.

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