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From Aristotle to Iris Murdoch: what the greatest minds of the past 2,500 years have to tell us about the good life

The BBC's Disinformation Unit has today been named the 2022 recipient of the Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism.

The Ockham Award 2018 for Skeptical Activism   Michael Marshall of The Good Thinking Society won the popular vote for his work promoting scientific scepticism and rational enquiry   The Rusty Razor Award for pseudoscience and bad critical thinking   Andrew Wakefield, a former doctor, won this year’s Rusty Razor. It was accepted on his […]

The Ockham Awards are The Skeptic's annual awards celebrating the very best work from within the skeptical community.

A climate change denial charity, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, has today been named the 2022 recipient of the “Rusty Razor” award

Dr Elisabeth Bik wins Skeptical Activism Ockham award, anti-vaxxer Dr Mike Yeadon wins 2021 Rusty Razor award for pseudoscience

The Ockham Award 2020 winners are: Skeptical Activism - Natalia Pasternak; Rusty Razor - Didier Raoult; Editor's Choice - Skeptics in the Pub

Pope Joan was a woman disguised as a man who allegedly became Pope John VIII in the year 854. Let me be clear right now that this never happened. Yet the

Ingrid Tarrant (pictured), 68, the ex-wife of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire host Chris Tarrant and other campaigners are desperate to stop 1,700 homes being built near Ockham, Surrey.

Is the simplest explanation always the best one, as Occams razor states?