Simon Oxenham

Simon Oxenham

The best and the worst of psychology and neuroscience

Simon Oxenham covers the best and the worst from the world of psychology and neuroscience. Formerly writing with the pseudonym "Neurobonkers", Simon has a history of debunking dodgy scientific research and tearing apart questionable science journalism in an irreverent style. Simon has written and blogged for publishers including: The Psychologist, Nature, Scientific American and The Guardian. His work has been praised in the New York Times and The Guardian and described in Pearson's Textbook of Psychology as "excoriating reviews of bad science/studies”.

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Jeremy Corbyn, the man who will take the Labour Party to the next British election, believes in homeopathy. Here's why that matters.
Researchers have discovered that the measles virus erases the body’s natural immunity to other diseases.  
Does the claim made by the leader of the €1 Billion Human Brain Project stand a chance of coming to fruition?
We are far more influenced by appearances in our electoral decision-making than we like to admit  
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A look at the implications of a promising discovery by researchers at Google.
Ten years ago, a researcher claimed most published research findings are false; now a decade later, his claim is stronger than ever before. How can this be?