In "Communion", JD Vance seeks to explain his shift from atheism to Catholicism, but illustrates only the dangers of putting religion at the heart of politics.
With Reform UK making gains in the recent local elections, parts of the UK now boast councillors with all manner of questionable beliefs.
As part of an NHS push for "normal" births - without medical intervention - midwives around the country have been treating labour complications with aromatherapy.
History is replete with scientists whose brilliance won them a Nobel Prize – only to go on to tarnish their legacy by promoting quackery and pseudoscience.
We don't have to rewrite Greek history to centre African influences in order to argue that a fictional character like Helen of Troy could be played by a black actor.
Regulating the Industrial Revolution didn't stifle innovation, it ensured technology served the people – regulating Big Tech and AI can do the same today.
Autohemotherapy, involving withdrawing blood from a vein and injecting it into a muscle, has been gaining followers in Brazil.
From Viking horns and dirty serfs to the plucky underdog role of Britain in World War II, history is replete with oft-repeated – but factually incorrect – myths.
Rio Vista's community water fluoridation was a great public health win - until it fell victim to a coordinated anti-fluoride campaign.
From the archives, the 19th century medium Dr Louis Schlesinger meets his match in the form of skeptic Harry Warren.
Pam Reynolds' 1991 out-of-body experience claims suggested to some that consciousness lives outside the mind – until scientists proved otherwise.
Bill Hicks was a brilliant and passionate comedian, but one who was prone to conspiracy theory, high weirdness, and a proto-incel level of misogyny.
From the archives in 1993, Daf Tregear looks at the history of Tarot, and how it came to be co-opted fully by believers in the occult.
Patients have a right to choose how they want to be treated – but for that choice to mean anything, they must be given accurate information.
Throughout the pandemic, writer Naomi Wolf fell from feminist icon and public intellectual, to conspiracy theorist and talking head of the right-wing media ecosystem.
Far from being capable of objective judgements, AI and machine learning replicate the biases and prejudices of the very human data they're trained on.
From calorie restriction to enzyme supplements, longevity hackers are often quick to jump on the latest research - but over time, it fails to hold up.
Evaluating claims of ESP and other psi abilities can provide the perfect opportunity to grapple with some counterintuitive, but incredibly important, maths.
Is violent media as closely linked to aggression as smoking is to lung cancer? Only if you take at face value heavily cherry-picked research.
New "research" suggests that a third of Gen Z believe they have psychic intuition – based on an online survey with deep methodological flaws.