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The longevity protocol of dasatinib and quercetin has shown some promise… but...
Scientific pursuits are often inspired by a very simply formulated question that has anything but a simple answer. For longevity researchers the question is simple enough: “What causes ageing?” A...
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The Turing test is no longer fit for purpose – we need a new benchmark for...
Alan Turing died over seventy years ago, but we keep arguing with him. Alan Turing in the 1930s. Image via Wikimedia Commons For many years, parts of his history were classified, and now his story is...
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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Hype: Monorail, Monorail, Monorail…
This story was first published to the website of the New Zealand Skeptics, and is reprinted here with permission. The hyperloop, one of Elon Musk’s grand ideas, was slated back in 2013 as a way to...
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How can we tell authentic writing, when even the Pope is suspected of using AI?
On the 25th of May, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas – some 42,000 words arguing that artificial intelligence must be “disarmed” before it hollows out human dignity,...
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The problem with Myers-Briggs: personality can’t be put into such neat little...
Are you an INTJ, an ESFP, or perhaps an INTP? If you have ever taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), you will know that four letters can apparently tell you quite a lot about yourself. They...
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Leaving aside the wonder and the doom, we should appreciate the real-world...
The public conversation about artificial intelligence runs on two registers. In the first, the machine understands, feels, is on the verge of waking up. In the second, it is about to replace us,...
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Even amid extreme heatwaves, well-funded climate change deniers continue to...
It has been hot lately, in the UK, as we go into an unprecedented fifth heatwave of the year. A heatwave is defined as at least three consecutive days with daily maximum temperatures exceeds a defined...
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The impressive thing about AI isn’t whether it thinks – it’s how well it can...
In May, Richard Dawkins published an account in UnHerd of spending two days talking with Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, and coming away profoundly affected by the experience. Somewhere in the middle...
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No lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s...
Not a lucky guess: James Costa argues Alfred Russel Wallace was Charles Darwin’s intellectual equal Who said the following? “I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees.”“I hate every wave in the...
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Why does the political right still hate electric vehicles and dismiss green...
There is no good argument against electric vehicles anymore, or against renewable energy – both are proven technologies. Both are better than the alternatives we’ve tried. But the misinformation that...
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The digital crawfish has you in its net: why your AI “Digital Employee” is a...
A digital crawfish is moving across your screen. It opens a research portal, downloads a fifty-page industry report, pulls out the key numbers, and drops them neatly into a PowerPoint slide. It...
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Green rapture: Sarah Wilson’s best-selling guide to the apocalypse for the...
‘I Eat The Stars’. Image: Hay House The buzz word at the 2023 World Economic Forum was ‘polycrisis’, Collins Dictionary’s word of the year. Historian Niall Fergusson’s response was that we already...
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Adult movies were not the reason Betamax really lost the video wars
This is the second article I’ve written for The Skeptic which opens by celebrating the anniversary of a Japanese-originated legacy home entertainment format. While 2025 was the 40th anniversary of the...
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The Nobel Prize-winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive
Throughout the 20th century, great scientists have had their work recognised by the Nobel committee, only to tarnish their own reputations in later life by descending into pseudoscience and quackery....
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AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich
When Pam Bondi was confronted before the House Judiciary Committee with questions about Donald Trump’s close personal relationship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the moment demanded moral...
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The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
Science is, as we all know, supposed to be self-correcting. Papers get reviewed, checked, challenged – and only then they get published. This is the theory, but the practice often looks different....
View ArticleIn the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans
We live in a sea of cognitive biases. Everyone is affected. All of us. All the time. Psychologists study them, and so do economists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers. Skeptics need to understand...
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Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
I was quite excited to follow along with Chris French’s series about the limits of skepticism (part 1, part 2 and part 3). During that third part, he fires off an email to one of his collaborators,...
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Smoke and mirrors: violent media, cigarettes, and shaky statistics
The association between violent media and aggression in adolescents is “nearly as strong as the association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer”. So said the American Academy of Pediatrics in...
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Richard Dawkins and AI: the lights are on, but nobody’s home
The genesis of my relationship with organised skepticism started with atheism, and the Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion. I had been an atheist since I was a child, and my parents still embarrass...
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