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

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

How a quirky series of parapsychology experiments across Cambridge in the early 1960s came perilously close to profound insight...

How fundamentalist Biblical literalism leads to fundamental scientific illiteracy...

How a quirky parapsychology experiment on the Cambridge Backs in the 1950s preempted a major psychological discovery some 4 decades later.

Weighing in on Imane Khelif, operationalism and gender essentialism.

How Prof. Michael Persinger came face-to-face with God through science, geomagnetism and a modified Ski-Doo helmet.

How TV ruined a perfectly speculative hypothesis on the aetiology of apparitional experiences.

How seemingly pseudoscientific explanations distort our understanding of apparitional experiences.

How Piaget's theory of cognitive development helps explain why personal experiences are not to be relied upon when forming beliefs.

How the cyclical nature of everything from sports performances to medical conditions results in regression to the mean.

How the high probability of so-called coincidences occurring can be explained by the law of large numbers.