Stuart Ritchie

Stuart Ritchie is a psychologits and senior lecturer at King's College, London. He is the author of 'Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science'.

Articles

Coronavirus

The Covid ‘transmission truthers’ are peddling a nonsense narrative

 ‘Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams’. Nowadays, 9/11 conspiracy theories are such a fringe preoccupation that it’s easy to forget how widespread they were in the early 2000s. The hugely popular homemade documentary Loose Change, released in 2005, pushed the idea that the mainstream theory of why the twin towers fell – al-Qaeda flew planes […]

Science

Why shouldn’t we ask scientists about their political beliefs?

The Covid pandemic has taught us all a lot about science, but it’s also reminded us of some unanswered questions about how science works. Here’s one from this week: how should we think about scientists’ political views? Monday saw a perfect illustration of this debate as Good Morning Britain co-host Richard Madeley collided with UCL […]