Never one to back down from a challenge to my skepticism, I looked into climate conspiracies, not the well-documented Big Oil effort to sow doubt, but the theories pushed by denialist campaigns asking who’s “behind” global warming. Spoiler: the real driver isn’t a shadowy cabal, it’s the overwhelming body of scientific evidence.

So, I've been thinking about the best and worst of this years skepticism as I prepare to make my nominations for the 2025 Ockham Awards.

How Erich von Däniken's reimagination of the image of Mayan King Pakal as an ancient astronaut really is analogous to seeing ghosts.

So I've been thinking about recent reports of apparitional experiences exemplifying inattentional blindness...

How a quirky parapsychology experiment in a Cambridge end terrace in the early 1960s nearly brought the house down.