Lucas Canino, an artist in residence at the Healthy Scepticism project, has produced a new magazine in time for Fakes Day for the Between Deception and Dissent project run by Emilie Cloatre (PI) at King’s College, London. In collaboration with Professor Patricia Kingori at Oxford Population Health’s Ethox Centre, the University of Oxford, and institutions around the UK and Ghana, this year’s fakes day will spotlight fakes in science and pseudo-science.
Read MoreHealthy Scepticism - the book - arrives June 18 2026. Published with the fabulous folks at Hurst, and with special thanks to my brilliant editor Lara Weisweiller-Wu, the book tracks the history and the contemporary of health scepticism, especially in its latter half via interviews with sceptical folks of all stripes - from those of us who have occasion to doubt or balk at a doctor’s diagnosis in the clinic all the way to the firmest contrarians about the utility and shape of healthcare. As it narrates these experiences, it tries to make sense of the constructive role that health scepticism plays and what is has to tell us about the way we have cared for health in the past and the way we care for it now.
Read MoreIn January 2024, Caitjan Gainty, Agnes Arnold-Forster and Paul Addae wrote an article for Wellcome Stories that delved into one of the project’s major goals, to reframe scepticism as a form of constructive critical inquiry. Looking outside the headlines, the article explores some examples of long-held, serious and nuanced reasons for doubting medical authorities – and argues that taking these reasons seriously is vital to governments and healthcare providers thinking about the future of inclusive medicine.
Read MoreIn 2022, as part of the culmination of the HS-Centric project, we shared some of our work in the form of a short film, which had its premiere at the Science Gallery London that September. Here is the full video, with thanks to Musa, Keisha, Elaine, Cristina and Ra’id for sharing their insights, to Paul Addae for bringing such thoughtful people to the project and to Lucas Canino for making the film.
Read MoreHow To Capture a Sneeze...
Introducing a new HS film made by Eddie Bolger and the Derek Jarman Lab, with academic consultants, and HS team members, Jesse Olszynko-Gryn and Caitjan Gainty. “The Curious History of Filming the Sneeze” will be live on the BBC Ideas website from 16 September, 2021. Here Eddie takes us behind the scenes of the making of the film to give a taste of how the film was made.
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