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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 2h
JD Vance is courting the manosphere with promises to tackle “anti-white, anti-male discrimination”. But young men’s disillusionment with Trump includes opposition to the Iran war. Appeals to grievance may struggle against the administration’s own record. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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JD Vance wants to win over the manosphere by tackling ‘anti-male discrimination’
Manosphere figures and Republican insiders are divided over whether Vance, 42, is the right man for the job
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 5h
Cars were torched and foreign-owned shops looted as anti-migrant protests turned violent in South Africa. The government blames false claims about an asylum ruling. Migrants are being scapegoated for jobs, crime and services on claims researchers say lack evidence. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-african-anti-migrant-protests-turn-violent-with-cars-torched-gunshots-2026-10-08/
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 8h
A fatal explosion in Rotherham became an “attempted terror attack” in social media posts. Police say no evidence of a crime has been found and counter-terrorism officers are not involved. Full Fact checks the claims circulating while the investigation continues. fullfact.org/crime/death-...
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No evidence death of man in Rotherham explosion is linked to an ‘attempted terror attack’ – Full Fact
South Yorkshire Police say no evidence of any crime has been uncovered and counter terrorism police are not involved in the investigation.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 11h
A psychic warned of a future pandemic affecting the lungs. The Daily Star links this to a Russian lab worker’s death from suspected plague. No date, location or pathogen was specified, but a broad prediction has found a news story to fit. www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-n...
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'Prophet of Doom' psychic made terrifying prediction days before Russian plague
A female lab worker in Russia recently died of a "pneumonia" of unknown origin, sparking fears of pneumonic plague, but one psychic claims to have already predicted an outbreak
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 14h
Police thanked the public after the arrests near RAF Fairford. But what counts as suspicious? Elisa Orofino looks at the risks of recruiting everyone into counter-terrorism when religion, ethnicity or clothing can attract suspicion without evidence of wrongdoing. theconversation.com/raf-fairford...
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RAF Fairford: the power (and risks) of making the public the ‘eyes and ears’ of counter-terrorism
What should ordinary citizens be doing?
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 17h
The Greens want a 20% cap on press ownership, forcing dominant publishers such as the Daily Mail’s owner to sell titles. Their wider plans tackle concentrated media power, but proposed licensing and powers to close outlets raise questions about press freedom. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/08/g...
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Green Party Would Force Daily Mail Owner to Sell Up Papers
Zack Polanski's party also backs plans to force media companies to operate under a licence granted by a regulator
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 20h
Tory shadow minister Blake Stephenson claims Luton has “no-go zones” where white people won’t venture. The council says no such zones exist. Familiar far-right claims are getting another airing, this time from someone whose brief is the Home Office. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/tory-m...
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'Trying To Out-Reform Reform!' Senior Tory Accused Of Peddling Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories
Blake Stephenson said “ghettoes” were forming across Luton.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 23h
Menopause supplements can cost over £400 a year yet offer no advantage over a cheap multivitamin, Which? found. Its review of 26 products uncovered missing nutrients and token doses, with hefty prices for formulations that don’t live up to their claims. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
Many products aimed at women over 45 lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, consumer watchdog Which? found
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
French students want smaller classes and better-funded schools. Trump has decided they’re part of an Islamic takeover. US far-right figures are busily turning an education dispute into a story about immigration, apparently without checking what protesters really want. newrepublic.com/post/216277/...
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Trump Makes Unhinged Claim About French School Protests
Where did Donald Trump even get this idea?
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sydney Loofe was murdered in 2017 after meeting her killers through Tinder. A new documentary revisits the case, including women’s accounts of a supposed coven where sexual coercion came with claims that killing someone could confer supernatural powers. people.com/couple-alleg...
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https://people.com/couple-allegedly-claimed-to-know-witchcraft-recruited-24-year-old-on-tinder-then-dismembered-her-12160275
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NFL quarterback Drake Maye is “a little bit skeptical” that astronauts landed on the Moon. NASA chief Jared Isaacman says he has the receipts. Maye’s doubts appear to rest on rather less, though that hasn’t stopped them getting an audience. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
NASA chief has hilarious response to NFL player doubting moon landing
Pats quarterback joins a list of other professional athletes who have questioned the moon landing
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A three-year-old died during rituals to drive out supposed evil spirits at a New Mexico compound. An appeals court has overturned the convictions: prosecutors failed to prove kidnapping, while a constitutional error means a new trial on terrorism-related charges. www.tampafp.com/life-sentenc...
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Life Sentences Tossed: Appeals Court Scraps Verdicts In Bizarre New Mexico Compound Exorcism Case
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out all convictions tied to a remote northern New Mexico compound where a 3-year-old boy died in 2017 and adults
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Borrowing the language of anti-vax and far-right communities helped Facebook ads draw more clicks to reliable information, a study found. Speaking an audience’s language may get facts noticed, but the researchers didn’t establish whether anyone changed their mind. theconversation.com/a-new-study-...
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A new study finds that to counter misinformation online, we need to copy its style
How do you get reliable information to someone who isn’t looking for it? New research using Facebook ads suggests a change in language makes a big difference.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Democracy campaigners are urging Andy Burnham to include compulsory voting in his electoral reforms. They argue that changing the voting system alone leaves an imbalance untouched: poorer and younger people are less likely to vote and easier for politicians to ignore. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/06/a...
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Andy Burnham Urged to Put Compulsory Voting at Heart of His Electoral Reform Plans
Democracy campaigners say changing how Britain votes will not be enough unless the Prime Minister also changes who votes as well
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bolsonaro’s movement has turned political disagreement into a battle between good and evil, casting Lula as a threat to faith, family and children. El País examines how evangelical networks and manufactured moral panics keep Brazil’s far right in contention. english.elpais.com/internationa...
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Moral panic, evangelical fury and a culture war: The Bolsonaro formula threatens Lula’s re-election bid
Jair Bolsonaro. who served as president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023, is currently under house arrest for his coup attempt. He has anointed his son, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, as his party’s…
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
While the far right frets about immigrants replacing white workers, its billionaire backers promote AI to replace workers altogether. Jason Stanley examines the contradiction. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech's real great replacement | Jason Stanley
While adherents to the racist theory condemn a shadowy global elite, Silicon Valley is working toward the replacement of humans with AI
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Trump’s chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize are slim, experts say, but his demands for a prize cloud Friday’s announcement. His war against Iran, territorial ambitions and attacks on international institutions sit awkwardly with his self-styled peacemaker image. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Nobel Peace Prize haunted by the 'spectre' of Trump
Donald Trump's chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize are seen as minimal, but his "spectre" will cast its shadow over Friday's announcement of the winner in Oslo, experts say.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Researchers have combined AI and electrical sensing to distinguish mirror-image forms of amino acids, helping future missions search for signs of life. Promising laboratory work, but detecting such chemical patterns would not by itself establish an alien origin. www.independent.co.uk/space/alien-...
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Scientists discover breakthrough new way to find alien life
Using AI and electrical signals, researchers could finally learn whether distant worlds are home to other living beings
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A former Brazilian minister wants the US to release files on the alleged 1996 Varginha UFO crash and captured alien. Thirty years on, the story still attracts headlines, with demands for disclosure standing in for evidence of extraterrestrial visitors. nypost.com/2026/10/03/w... archive.ph/MtdSJ
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Ex-Brazilian minister urges US to release files on aliens with glowing red eyes: ‘What we saw wasn’t human’
On Jan. 20, 1996, three people reported seeing a strange bipedal creature in southeastern Brazil – in one of the country’s most famous UFO cases.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new documentary follows Douglas Stilgoe, known as Nemo the Mormon, who says he was excommunicated for holding church leaders to account. His story explores the personal cost of questioning an institution that shaped his faith, family and identity. www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/2660385...
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‘Family shun me’: Mormon man in Reading church cut off for challenging leaders
A member of the Mormon church in Reading has spoken out about his “loss of trust” in its leadership – amid an ongoing six-year battle for change.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Spotting the liars on Celebrity Traitors looks easier from a sofa where we already know who they are. Research puts human lie detection barely above chance, while confidence, nervousness and a convincing story can all send suspicion in the wrong direction. theconversation.com/celebrity-tr...
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Celebrity Traitors: research suggests that contestants will find the game tougher than it looks
In the castle, talk is cheap and not to be trusted.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After years of spreading conspiracy theories about Ukrainian biolabs, Russia faces questions about one of its own. A Siberian lab worker’s death has prompted fears of plague, with Byline Times reporting efforts to suppress coverage. The cause remains disputed. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/06/r...
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Russia Scrambles to Cover Up Potential Plague Outbreak After Years of Spreading Biolab Conspiracy Theories
The Kremlin launched its full invasion of Ukraine claiming it was facing biological attack. Now the disinformation has come back to bite it
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An ABC investigation reveals how online networks such as 764 groom and blackmail children into self-harm and abuse. Mixing satanic imagery with neo-Nazi ideas, members compete for status through escalating cruelty, sometimes coercing victims into targeting others. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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The FBI calls this type of cult 'modern-day terrorism'. It has found its way to Australia
They are sadistic and manipulative, often targeting children through digital platforms. Now, as part of an ABC investigation, a teen tells how an online cult incited her into ritualistic acts.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The US has acknowledged deploying weapons in orbit, without saying what they are. AP examines the secrecy surrounding space weaponry, where technologies can serve civilian and military purposes and claims of defensive intent offer little reassurance to rivals. apnews.com/article/oute...
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https://apnews.com/article/outer-space-weapons-nuclear-084e9426df83be03d8b4f5290f720466
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI fakes are taking up more of fact-checkers’ attention, but going viral is a poor guide to their potential harm. Full Fact’s study of 112 examples found that widely viewed fabrications could have limited impact, while smaller ones reached people able to act on them. fullfact.org/technology/f...
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What’s the harm? Fact checking reveals the true scale of AI fakery – Full Fact
AI-generated false content now makes up nearly a quarter of everything we fact check, but how many of these pieces actually cause harm?
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice in an effort to tackle AI deepfakes. It could give her another way to challenge impersonations, though a trademark would hardly stop anyone generating them in the first place. www.reuters.com/technology/i...
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/italy-pm-meloni-seeks-eu-trademark-her-voice-amid-ai-deepfake-risks-2026-10-05/
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An Italian yoga guru arrested on suspicion of sexual abuse allegedly told followers they had been witches in past lives and needed him to remove their harmful energy. He presented touching their breasts as “purification” and warned of harm if they refused. metro.co.uk/2026/10/05/y...
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Yoga guru 'placed his hands' on students' breasts for 'purification therapy'
Bruno Antonio Malatesta allegedly recruited vulnerable people as young as 11.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UFO whistleblower David Grusch tells Joe Rogan of aliens resembling Greek gods and giant “gorilla-reptiles”, linked to deadly encounters with US troops. He says he has seen footage and heard witness accounts, but offers us fresh stories to await proof of. nypost.com/2026/10/03/u... archive.ph/wwzDY
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UFO whistleblower makes wild alien claims on Joe Rogan podcast: ‘Greek gods’ and ‘gorilla lizards’
On Joe Rogan’s podcast, UFO whistleblower David Grusch claimed multiple alien species exist on Earth, including 7-foot-tall reptilian beings.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pennsylvania reports five measles-related deaths, while the CDC counts just two nationwide. Different definitions complicate the tally, but RFK Jr has added accusations of fabricated deaths to a dispute already undermining public trust as the disease spreads. theconversation.com/measles-is-s...
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Measles is spreading across the US – and officials can’t agree on the death toll
Pennsylvania counts five measles deaths this year, the CDC two. Without an agreed definition, the confusion hits hardest where vaccination rates are lowest.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nathan Cofnas, whose allegations fuelled the media campaign against Jason Arday, has posted about racial purity and approvingly cited Nazi psychologists. Byline Times asks why the press adopted his framing while giving his own views so little scrutiny. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/06/e...
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'Even Nazi Psychologists Acknowledged Jewish Intelligence': The Posts of the Academic Who Targeted Jason Arday
Nathan Cofnas, whose Substack set off the media firestorm over Jason Arday, made a series of posts about “Jewish IQ”, “Mischlings”, and the “emptying” of Gaza
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Barbara O’Neill, banned from providing health services in Australia over dangerous misinformation, is coming to Britain and Ireland to dispense more “self-healing” advice. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Self-healing’ coach who was banned from working in Australia to speak in UK
Barbara O’Neill has previously claimed that cancer is a fungus that can be treated with bicarbonate soda
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The manosphere has reached Cambridge, writes Harry Cammish in Varsity. He argues that its appeal to privileged young men challenges the idea that misogyny is simply a symptom of economic exclusion, with nostalgia for an imagined past offering comforting certainties. www.varsity.co.uk/comment/32107
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Angry young men
The manosphere is treated as a problem of the left behind. And yet, it has arrived at Cambridge
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anthropic says Russian operatives used Claude to produce propaganda and monitor opponents in the Central African Republic. One request sought to portray opposition figures as armed militants to provoke action by security forces. The chatbot refused. www.dw.com/en/anthropic...
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Anthropic report: Is Russia using AI for disinformation in the Central African Republic and elsewhere?
An Anthropic report says the AI model Claude was used in pro-Russian campaigns in the Central African Republic. Similar allegations were raised for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Sudan…
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bill Gates does not own most of America’s water. AFP traces how drought fuels conspiracy theories about billionaires hoarding supplies, obscuring climate change’s role while muddling real concerns about corporate influence over water rights and policy. factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
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'Stealing our water': conspiracy theories about billionaires follow droughts
The warmest summer on record for the contiguous United States led to widespread and severe drought conditions in 2026, and social media users are blaming billionaires who control vast agricultural…
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Republican candidate William Beck joins a discussion invoking Alex Jones’s “gay frogs” claims. Research has found that atrazine can alter frogs’ sexual development, but that offers no evidence for conspiracy theories about chemicals turning people gay or trans. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/10/cand...
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MAGA candidate claims frogs are "changing sexes" because of chemicals in the water - LGBTQ Nation
The claim is often used in conspiracy theories about transgender people.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Fox Sports host Colin Cowherd says UFO documentary The Age of Disclosure changed his mind, asking why its military witnesses would lie. His reasoning rests on their apparent credibility, rather than evidence that their claims confirm alien visitors. www.dailymail.com/sport/nfl/ar... archive.ph/TeQLm
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Fox host Colin Cowherd launches into bizarre conspiracy theory rant
Cowherd, who hosts The Herd on Fox Sports Radio, was discussing the latest injury crisis engulfing the San Francisco 49ers when conversation turned to China and even aliens.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Two centuries ago, Mary Shelley imagined a pandemic spread by war, political failure and a lack of care for others. Her novel The Last Man, set in our century, offers an unsettling reflection on how human choices turn crises into catastrophes. theconversation.com/lessons-for-...
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Lessons for the 21st century from a 200-year-old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley
The catastrophic story is familiar, but the insight, and the ending, offer an opportunity, and perhaps motivation, for modern readers.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Genocide denial need not mean denying every atrocity. Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that Labour’s shifting language on Gaza acknowledges suffering while avoiding the conclusions and action that would threaten Britain’s relationship with Israel. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/05/g...
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Gaza Three Years On: The Changing Politics of Genocide Denial
Martin Shaw, who argued that Israel was beginning to commit genocide in October 2023, examines the tensions between recognition and denial as the Burnham Government tries to reset its Palestine…
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A fake news outlet, forged dossiers and 1,000 bogus accounts: Anthropic says Claude helped build an election manipulation operation targeting Malaysia. It found no evidence the campaign reached real communities, but the machinery is cause for concern. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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How AI could ‘supercharge’ election risks across south-east Asia
Some experts fear AI could be weaponised in south-east Asia, home to nations with predominately young and hyper-connected populations
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nearly 87% of astrobiologists surveyed reckon extraterrestrial life probably exists, with fewer expecting intelligent life. It’s a survey of opinion, and ‘aliens’ here could mean microbes. The headline leaves more room for flying saucers than the findings do. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/do-sci...
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Researchers Asked Scientists If Alien Life Exists. Most Said The Same Thing
86.6% of astrobiologists, and 88.4% of other scientists, were in agreement.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Russian disinformation campaigns borrow French news outlets’ logos, layouts and credibility ahead of the 2027 presidential race. Reports target pro-Ukraine candidates, while copied branding helps the fabrications pass as journalism and find their way into AI answers. www.france24.com/en/france/20...
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Russia ramps up disinformation attacks on French media ahead of 2027 presidential race
Pro-Russian influence operations have caused a surge of 850% in fake news stories mimicking real media brands, according to a report published this week by disinformation specialist, NewsGuard. Out…
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A physicist claims nuclear explosions wiped out a Martian civilisation, citing xenon in the atmosphere. But his isotope mix fails to match the measurements. Before explaining who massacred the Martians, there’s the small matter of establishing either existed. www.popularmechanics.com/science/a739...
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An Alien Civilization Lived on Mars. But a Nuclear Disaster Wiped It Out, a Controversial Theory Claims.
So why haven’t we seen evidence of it?
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
US troops battling seven-foot reptilians beside a crashed UFO is the latest tale David Grusch told Joe Rogan. He says personnel were injured and killed, though he never saw the beings himself. Now, the alien firefight comes courtesy of someone who told him about it. www.ibtimes.co.uk/david-grusch...
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David Grusch Says He Never Saw a Reptilian Himself but Claims US Personnel Shot Them After a UFO Crash
The David Grusch Joe Rogan interview includes claims that US personnel shot alleged reptilian beings, although Grusch says he never saw them himself.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
David Grusch’s tale takes the aliens underwater, to a base spanning city blocks. The whistleblower told Joe Rogan US officials track craft coming and going, but naval secrecy prevents him saying where. Disclosure has reached the seabed; the evidence hasn’t surfaced. www.ibtimes.co.uk/david-grusch...
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Aliens Run an Underwater Ocean Base Spanning Multiple City Blocks, UFO Whistleblower Tells Joe Rogan
Former US intelligence officer David Grusch has claimed that officials know of an alleged underwater facility used by non-human craft, but the claim remains unverified and its location undisclosed.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reports of bystander inaction in Cornell’s alleged gang rape case highlight a wider problem: men can stay silent because they wrongly assume their peers accept sexual violence. Correcting that misperception, while teaching ways to intervene, can break the silence. theconversation.com/dozens-of-me...
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Dozens of men failed to stop an alleged gang rape at Cornell – here’s the misperception that keeps bystanders from intervening and how to short-circuit it
People may accept bad behavior – even sexual assault – when they overestimate how acceptable their peers think it is. But there are ways to undermine this thinking and make intervention more likely.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bolsonaro supporters are mobilising digital “armies” ahead of Brazil’s election, armed with AI videos and ready-made propaganda. Meanwhile, tests found chatbots flouting election rules and Meta approving ads inciting violence. Big Tech has plenty at stake in who wins. bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/d...
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‘Digital Armies’ and Disinformation: How Big Tech Is Hitting Brazil’s Upcoming Election
Caroline Orr Bueno reports on how Brazil became a testing ground for information warfare
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Times Higher Education hasn’t covered allegations against Cambridge academic and Reform figure James Orr, Byline Times says. Both THE and a foundation Orr helps run received Hungary-linked funding, raising doubts about conflicts of interest and editorial independence. bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán's Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose…
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Right-wing pundits invoking due process have already decided a Cornell student’s sexual assault allegations are a hoax. Megyn Kelly has even threatened to name her. So much for letting the courts decide, or making it safe for women to report sexual violence. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...
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Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough
The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With polls pointing to Republican midterm losses, MAGA election deniers are following Trump’s lead in dismissing them as fake or a “psyop” to suppress turnout. One influencer says polls never happen, despite repeatedly sharing those favourable to Trump. www.wired.com/story/electi... archive.ph/shFrC
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Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’
Dozens and dozens of high-profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X.
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Cambridge Skeptics @cambskeptics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Most people charged over January 6 had no militia affiliation. Researcher Robert Pape warns the danger facing the US midterms extends into the mainstream, as ordinary Americans accept political violence and leaders cast opponents as existential enemies. www.wired.com/story/the-re... archive.ph/Ht8LC
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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
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