Psychologist who used 'energy healing treatment' banned over intimate...
A Victorian psychologist breached her duties as a psychologist by engaging in a personal and intimate relationship with a patient, touching him and using a treatment that was not evidence-based, the...
View ArticleSocial videos give the impression Australians are opposed to masks. What's...
There's been widespread media coverage of a people filming themselves refusing to follow COVID-19 restrictions. Experts are concerned this misrepresents what's really happening.
View ArticleWhat do lifestyle gurus and conspiracy theorists have in common?
Both present themselves as anti-establishment underdogs, comparable to Biblical tales of good versus evil. But it's not just this 'hero's journey' narrative that helps spread conspiracy theories and...
View ArticleCan religion and rationality ever reconcile their differences?
In a simple sense, science deals with what we know, religion with what we believe. Jesse Richardson wonders whether they can ever kiss and make up.
View ArticleStealing from the wellness gurus
When you really watch the wellness gurus at work, they are 'bloody effective' at connecting and engaging with their audience, says Dr Darren Saunders.
View ArticleStealing from the wellness gurus
When you really watch the wellness gurus at work, they are 'bloody effective' at connecting and engaging with their audience, says Dr Darren Saunders.
View ArticleResearch Filter: weedkiller in water and solar panels
Can weedkiller damage male fertility and could solar panels cause cancer?
View ArticleWhat makes a disease a disease?
Science writer, Mike McRae, outlines the ever-changing nature of illness, and how disease is socially and culturally defined.
View ArticleThe Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the...
A young ornithologist. A Nazi expedition to Tibet. A Faustian pact in the name of science, but at what cost? This story gets very weird, very fast. But the animals are watching.
View ArticleAre anti-vaxxers having a moment?
We're on track for the second worst measles year in Australia since 1997, with nearly 80 infections recorded already. The situation is even worse overseas, with bad outbreaks in the Philippines,...
View ArticleThese are the ways Hollywood imagined a black hole would look. So who got...
Over the years everyone from sci-fi filmmakers to NASA has tried to visualise a black hole. Now we have the real deal, so let's see who was right and who was wildly ambitious.
View ArticleIrrationality
In 1944, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer published their famous claim that "Enlightenment reverts to mythology" - meaning that any rational order sooner or later collapses into irrationality. Seven...
View ArticleThe supernatural quest for the superhuman athlete
How did the combination of the 1960s counterculture and the Cold War create the desire for superhuman athletes?
View ArticleMind, matter and motherhood
When Nicola Redhouse had each of her two children, she experienced shattering post-natal anxiety that sent her deep into the mystery of the self, and the relationship between mind and body. A long...
View ArticleThe anti-vaccination movement has a 200-year-old history. It all began with...
The anti-vaccination movement has been around since Edward Jenner scraped pus from the skin of sick cows. Here's what's driven the sentiment over the last two centuries.
View ArticleThere's a problem with wellness crystals
The wellness industry is booming, and that includes crystals. But where exactly do they come from? Plenty of crystals are mined unethically, using child labour or damaging the environment, and it's...
View ArticleCan better science communication help counter pseudo-science?
The internet is awash with pseudo-science, often spread by people with little, or no, knowledge of science. Can improved science communication help to debunk bogus science?
View ArticleThe Hollow Bones: the weird world of Nazi 'science' meets mysticism on the...
A young ornithologist. A Nazi expedition to Tibet. A Faustian pact in the name of science, but at what cost? This story gets very weird, very fast. But the animals are watching.
View ArticleSuckers for pseudoscience
When it comes to pseudoscience you might consider yourself to be a sceptic But don’t give yourself too much credit because we’re all vulnerable to believing dubious claims. This is because of powerful...
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