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Placebo surgery: why performing fake operations doesn’t actually help anyone | Mike Hall, for The Skeptic

The recent New Jersey drone scare tells us a lot about how pseudoscience panics spread | Dave Hahn, for The Skeptic

The assisted dying conversation requires sensitive and compassionate debate | Brian Eggo, for The Skeptic

Studying the promotion of health misinformation by the Bolsonaro government | Cesar Baima, for The Skeptic

“Grey content”: how mainstream journalism accidentally fueled Covid vaccine hesitancy | Carlos Orsi, for The Skeptic

Pacemakers don’t work when they’re switched off – we should doubt studies that say otherwise | Mike Hall, for The Skeptic

Climate science: How a believer becomes a skeptic