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Is the rise of populism over or only just beginning?
I Have a Dream for Science on Steem
Help me turn clicks into cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency into science!
Psychologists clash over how easy it is to implant false memories of committing a crime
How the desire to be seen as unique drives believers of conspiracy theories
What explains the global decline in voting?
Academically successful children smoke more cannabis as teenagers: is it time to rethink drug education programmes?
How the changing of the clocks affects your brain
How being overpaid could destroy your passion for doing what you love
Why over 80% of parents of overweight kids fail to realise their children are overweight
Why do we get “hangry”?
How Technology Based on Swarms of Bees Can Help Predict The Future
Fake news shapes our opinions even when we know it’s not true
What attracts people to modern art?
The Mystery of the Disappearing Brain Tingles
Abolishing locked psychiatric wards could put patients at risk
Nudges work even if we know we are being nudged
Why Are Drug Deaths Rising When Drug Use is Falling?
Debunking myths about menstruation:
How bias has made vast numbers of studies in social psychology unreliable
Doctors and police struggle with false positive test results
The legal maze holding back data science
The Pandora Effect: Why curiosity beats common sense
Researchers are discovering new ways of detecting lies
The elephant in the brain scanner
How Bad Science is Naturally Selected
What explains Brexit, Trump and the rise of the far right?
How the size and shape of your glass affects how much you drink
Do techniques for inducing lucid dreaming really work?
There are no quick fixes or easy solutions to the problem of stereotyping:
Why is Australia Spending Millions of Dollars Researching “Wind Farm Syndrome”?
Why the notion that only positive findings are important is an Alice in Wonderland view of reality
The real reason we work so well in coffee shops may have nothing to do with the “coffee shop effect”
Breaking bad sniffles: Crystal meth made cold medicine rubbish
Everything you’ve heard about sniffing oxytocin might be wrong
Sativa Vs. Indica: Fact or Fiction?
My mind’s eye is blind – so what’s going on in my brain?
The harsh truth about speed-reading
Who Teaches The Teachers?
Is Most Science News Bullshit?
The day police told Parliament to end the war on drugs
The Academic Publishing Scandal in Two Minutes
The Robin Hood of Science: The Missing Chapter
Meet the Robin Hood of Science
We Need to Rewrite the Textbook on How to Teach Teachers
10 Things Police Get Wrong About Psychology
A Simple Principle of Educational Psychology Has Been Massively Misunderstood
What Makes Us Cheat? Three Classic Experiments from Behavioral Economics
Lessons from Psychology in How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolution
Four Times When Journalists Read a Scientific Paper and Reported the Complete Opposite
China’s Radical Plan to Gamify Social Control
The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Getting The Ball Rolling Is The Best Antidote To Procrastination
How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience
Why Do People Fall for Pseudo-Profound Bullsh*t?
The Atir-Rosenzweig-Dunning Effect: When Experts Claim to Know the Unknowable
To Fear Is Human, But To Allow Our Fear To Blind Us Is To Let The Fearmongers Win
Can Online Learning Ever Beat the Real Thing?
Why Politicians All Seem The Same, Gas Stations Come In Pairs and Twitter is Slowly Turning Into Facebook
How Hearing Something Now, Can Lead You to Believe the Opposite Later
Googling stuff can cause us to overestimate our own knowledge
The Mystery of the UK’s Latest Drug Prosecution Figures
Will The Next Refugee Crisis Be An Environmental Refugee Crisis?
The Cult of ‘Deal or No Deal’
The initiation ceremony experiments
A War On Drugs That’s Actually Worth Fighting
‘The Silicon Jungle’: The ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ of The 21st Century?
Why Do Most American Conservatives Still Refuse To Believe In Climate Change?
The Psychology of Initiation Ceremonies
Mayhem As Entire Conference of Homeopaths Poisons Themselves With Hallucinogenic Drugs
The Problem With Nuance For The Sake of Nuance
Most New Psychology Findings Can’t Be Replicated. So Now What?
In Defence of Dismaland: The Value of Banksy’s Dystopian Nightmare
The Surprising Truth About Sniffer Dogs
A Simple Way to Use Psychology to Run Faster
How Research into the Reasons Doctors Get Sued Explains Why People Believe in Quacks
The Real Miracle of Acupuncture: That Anyone Still Believes In It
An Open Letter To Jeremy Corbyn: Why I Can’t Take a Believer of Homeopathy Seriously
A New Study with Big Implications for Antivaxxers
Will We Really Be Able To Model The Entire Human Brain Within 10 Years?
Children Can Predict the Outcomes of Elections Simply by Looking at Candidates’ Faces
The Latest Health Scare, In Perspective
Google Neural Network Produces Psychedelic Imagery
Believe It Or Not, Most Published Research Findings Are Probably False
Was it right to fool millions of people into thinking chocolate helps you lose weight?
Why do so many people think MSG is bad for you?
WiFi Won’t Make You Ill, but Thinking that It Will Really Can
A New Replication Suggests ‘Power Posing’ Is a Waste of Time, but Here’s Why You’ll Still Be Told to Do
No, Smartphones Aren’t Making Children Autistic
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations
World Health Organization Demands Pharmaceutical Companies Stop Withholding Clinical Trials as Study Finds Over Half of
The ‘worm’ with the potential to determine elections by manipulating your vote
Why the Widespread Belief in ‘Learning Styles’ Is Not Just Wrong; It’s Also Dangerous
The Problem of ‘Pointing’ in Modern Journalism
Is Immunization the Reason George Washington (and Not the Queen of England) Is on the Dollar Bill?
The ‘research’ that isn’t actually research
How Does Consuming Glucose Affect Your Memory?
The Backfire Effect: When Correcting False Beliefs Has the Opposite of the Intended Effect
‘The first crack in the wall of significance testing’
Believe it or not, “learning styles” don’t exist
What neuromyths do you believe in?
Could You Be Convinced You Committed a Crime That You Didn’t Commit?
Why Do So Many Psychologists Write So Badly?
If a patent is rejected, but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Did Facebook Just Finally Kill Off Hoax News?
Don’t Be Taken in by The Nonsense Science of "Cell Memory Theory"
No, Half of All Children Won’t Be Autistic By 2025, Despite What Your Facebook Friends May Tell You
Learning How to Learn
A Dark Forgotten Past, and Why it Needs to be Remembered
Believe it or not, sugar doesn’t cause hyperactivity
Is This the Most Misleading Image in Neuroscience?
One Amazing Reason Clickbait Can Be Bad For You!
People Say They Care About Brain Science, But Do They Really?
How Your Body Language Alters Your State of Mind
How Common Myths About the Human Brain Can Be Dangerous
What happens after the truth puts its boots on?
Satire is under attack, but are the fears justified?
Could a Newly Launched Metaphorical Search Engine Really Work?
The Paradox of unhappy liberals and happy conservatives, in happy welfare states
Have You Fallen Victim to the Guru Effect?
Everything is Made of Chemicals
Natural News: A Truly Deadly Brand of Pseudoscience
Why the Anti-Obamacare Ads Backfired so Spectacularly
You Have No Idea How Wrong You Are
Fairy Tales: From Fact to Folklore
5 ways to be more productive
How Fixation Error Prevents You From Solving Problems
“It is the job of science to defy common sense”
“It is not about political views or ideologies, it is blunt facts which are not known”
The Bike Helmet Paradox
Why you should be skeptical of a new study that concludes that when keeping promises, you should deliver the bare minimum
How to Spot Bad Science
What is a more effective way of taking notes – laptop or notepad?
When Evidence Backfires
The psychology of the no-makeup selfie: why we should think twice before discouraging public displays of altruism
Why TED’s move to enable speakers to provide annotated citations is such a good thing
The App that Trains You to See Farther… or Does It?
The Psychiatric Times Cover Story on Psychiatry’s Dance with the Devil… That Wasn’t
”Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you”
A simple principle that explains everything from the perceived success of speed cameras and alternative medicine to the Sports
Brain Injuries: What NICE doesn’t tell you
US Government Shuts Down Access to Online Courses in Syria, Sudan, Iran and Cuba
It’s time for teachers to wake up to neuromyths
Inside the world of modern day magicians, witches and evangelical Christians
Introducing: This is Not a Conspiracy Theory
The Passive War: “The blind warning the blind about a nonexistent danger”
The Monty Hall Problem: Deal or Switch
The New Project Set to make EEG, Brain Computer Interfacing and 3D Printing History
The Top 10 Posts on Neurobonkers in 2013
New Years: A time for a little evidence based self-evaluation (CC: Boris Johnson)
Before you hit the bottle this holiday season, lend Prof. Nutt your ears for 9 minutes
The subconscious mercenaries
Prof. David Nutt awarded the John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science
The Open Access Irony Awards
Science’s Peer Review Sting: The Results (Part 2)
Science’s Straw Man Sting
Science is a non-essential government function… apparently
Three terrible academic habits
‘A magnificent tool for understanding the human mind… a terrible tool for the courtroom’
A mindblowing new technique makes making the two dimensional, three dimensional as easy as 1, 2, 3.
The forensic laboratories that are paid per conviction
Why the number 2.9013 will go down in the history of bad science
How being called smart can actually make you stupid
Is this the most bizarre paper ever published in a peer reviewed journal?
Placebo Effects: Psychology’s Fundamental Flaw? Why active controls are not enough
Why open access makes sense
Lie Detectors: The return of trial by ordeal
Does modafinil reduce the effectiveness of hormonal contraception?
16 very good reasons to get a shiny new feed reader
How patent trolls hijacked the building blocks of life
Man implants magnet in his ear for use as wireless headphone
"The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society"
bp;dr – behind paywall, didn’t read, the internet’s next new acronym
With the drop of a hat an authoritarian regime can redefine the word: "terrorist“
Snowden should be protected, acting in the public interest is a noble choice
A Kickstarter launched a couple of days ago is already half way to letting you control a cockroach with your phone, but is this
Is big brother watching you?
One man, a media circus and an epidemic
A borderline definite marginally mild notably numerically increasing suggestively verging on significant result
The mystery of the missing experiments
How needing a wee affects your decision making
When should I publish with open access? A handy flow chart
How NOT to spot a murderer’s brain
The future of a home computer controlled by your eyes may be far closer than you think
The Neuroscience Power Crisis: What’s the fallout?
Now you can enlarge and denoise your photos, all thanks to basic research
Achieving herd immunity against pseudoscience in the age of the filter bubble and the social news revolution
The Moving Goalposts of Mental Illness
Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid
In Defence of Pseudonyms in Science: Defending the Right to Write
How will the UK ban on doctors using social media anonymously affect patients?
The bad science of Satoshi Kanazawa
Academic Copyright: The bad news and the good news
Got a smartphone? Take part in the Great Brain Experiment
The forbidden fruit: How grapefruit could kill you
The Gagging of Great Britain… and Beyond
New research sheds light on 13 ways to gain followers on Twitter
Welcome to the land of the digital refugees
The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn!
Holding Therapy: Blowing The Whistle on Institutionalised Child Abuse in the UK
I Predict A Riot
The internet begins to finish the job that Aaron Swartz started, at the rate of a paper per minute
A tribute to Aaron Swartz, the young hero of freedom for information, driven to his death on Friday by the US Department for
Your Guide on How to Immunize Yourself Against Misinformation in 2013
The statistical significance scandal: The standard error of science?
Lessons from TED on the dangers of pseudoscience
Seven Former Presidents, Ten Nobel Prize Winners, One Message: End The War on Drugs
The world’s most prolific cannabis dealer and a right wing columnist debate the war on drugs
The meteoric ascent of the patent troll and the devastating consequences for innovation
A conversation with the creators of the world’s largest functioning model of the human brain
Britain’s bizarre plan to take schooling back to the Stone Age
Introducing Mind Lab: The all singing, all dancing, interactive psychology class
Demystifying Hallucinations
What is psychology?
London mapped with language
Profiteering from anxiety
Breaking news from the department for the bleeding obvious
Who Needs Facts Anyway?
Neurobonkers is moving house
An evidence-based protest song
Why you might be about to see a lot more round glasses in pubs
Oliver Sacks on Drugs
The Science of Bad Neuroscience
Dare to disagree… with TED
The largest ever study in to drug harms places alcohol in the top four
Are we about to witness the single biggest change in the way we learn since the printing press?
Psychiatrists don’t kill people, guns do
A brief guide to reading online
Will somebody please explain to the Daily Mail that ‘overdose’ does not mean the same as ‘to put a plastic
Who influenced who? An epic data visualisation
Liars look to the right, right? Wrong.
Paris Syndrome: Peculiar Madness or Urban Legend?
In the UK it is illegal to broadcast parliamentary proceedings in a comedic or satirical context
Two Major Reports Slamming The Drug War Released in One Day
Is there such thing as self-plagiarism?
The USA Bans 26 Drugs Including 2C* Family, Mephedrone, MDPV and Synthetic Cannabinoids
Where does your energy drink fall on the caffeine spectrum and does that taurine actually do anything?
“The best evidence based advice to help cannabis smokers look after their lungs would be to abandon the peculiar British
Breaking News: Simply telling depressed people to exercise does not help relieve symptoms of depression
Getting to the bottom of the case of the “bath salt” zombie face eater
Christopher Hitchens vs Peter Hitchens
Obama’s Personal Cannabis Policies: Interception and Total Absorption
About time for a paradigm shift?
Timothy Leary’s Floatation Tank
Researchers Demonstrate The First Brain Controlled Robotic Arm
What does synaesthesia feel like? [video]
What is ATL trolling?
New paper slams UK media for routinely misrepresenting neuroscience research to further ideological agendas
Harvard University To Boycott Extortionate Journal Publishers
CISPA Could Become Law This MONDAY. World, this affects you.
Eye Tracking: What parts of a CV do recruiters actually look at?
The Anti-Vaxxer Cheerleaders Posing A Serious Threat To The Herd
Google’s Vision of The Future: Parodied on Film
An incorrect correction in the Daily Mail
How Britain Castrated The Father of Artificial Intelligence
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality: Why Britain Has Spent The Past Week Talking About Pasties
Facebook users can now expect to get date requests from strangers
The Great Irony of Shibboleth
Elsevier unleashes the hounds on @FakeElsevier twitter account for trademark violation
Corporate psychopathy or old-fashioned witch hunt?
A camera that can see around corners has been invented
Daily Mail Win Newspaper of the Year at the Press Awards: I Call Bullshit
By the time we get used to the way things work, the way thing work change
TPB Announces Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS)
The Amazing Story of Alexander Shulgin
Fact Checking The Great Drugs Debate
Is Your Newspaper Making You Ignorant? A Scientific Analysis
By the end of the year your browser could have a fact checker, just like your spell checker
The Elsevier scandal in two minutes
A Yale Professor’s One Man Rampage Against PloS, the Internet and a Belgian Research Group
A Failure of Police Intelligence?
How Medical Misinformation Led to 13,000 Unnecessary Abortions in the UK
How to make a dead squid dance with soya sauce
APA Shut Down DSM-5 Blogger
In Case You Missed The Memo
How to construct a bogus survey
Synthesising Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine
According to a study.. Oh I give up
A masterpiece of our time
Your new favourite homepage
We are not a nation of shopkeepers any more and that is a good thing
Twitter Vs Dr. Susan Greenfield
A Scientist’s Worst Nightmare
Daily Mail Satirical Headline Scrambler
Just ONE Copy of The Daily Mail Could Ruin Your Life
Inside The Mind’s Ear [Video]
Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre Wins Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation over “Just One Cannabis Joint Can
The Lecture You Were Never Meant to See (UNCUT)
The Pirate Bay Goes 3D (Literally)
Daily Mail Demolition #2
Data Visualisation 101
Is this journal for real?
When Satire Is Mistaken For Reality
The Astronomical Rise of Astroturfing
Nuns, Sex, Breast Cancer & Bullshit [NSFW]
Doctors sued for prescribing Valium
Copyright vs Medicine: If this topic isn’t covered in your newspaper this weekend, get a new newspaper
A Christmas Message From Neurobonkers
2011: The Year in Drugs
Bird Flu Research: To Censor or not to Censor?
Daily Mail Demolition: “Just one cannabis joint can bring on schizophrenia”

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