February 14, 2024

Earthquake conspiracy theories flourished in the wake of last year’s disaster in Turkey Serdar Basegmez The Skeptic

Only a few hours after we hastily left our small flat in Istanbul during the 1999 İzmit earthquake, we found ourselves caught up in the communal gossip about the aftermath. “A whole apartment building collapsed just a few streets away!” one of our neighbours exclaimed. “A child was injured by falling debris from a church

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Dragons’ Den has a quackery problem that goes far beyond ear seeds Michael Marshall The Skeptic

The BBC One reality show Dragons Den has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in the last couple of weeks. For those unfamiliar with the format, in each episode, several business owners pitch their products to a bunch of rich folk – or “dragons” – to be scrutinised and critiqued, with the hope

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From the archives: A hole in the head – Creationists and APEmen in Lowestoft Jean N Dorricott The Skeptic

This article originally appeared in The Skeptic, Volume 4, Issue 5, from 1990. Perhaps you don’t know that when ancient man (ably assisted by Raquel Welch) roamed the earth, his life was made more perilous by fire-breathing dinosaurs. Evidence for this lies in an unexplained cavity in the skulls of some dinosaurs, and the widespread

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“Trillions of humans”: is Elon Musk right about population size? Gabriel Andrade The Skeptic

You might be forgiven for thinking that rich white men have a penchant for saying outrageous things when it comes to demography. For example, the late Prince Philip once said that if he were reincarnated, he “would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.” Not to be outdone, Elon

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