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I am a Research Fellow in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University where I specialise in teaching media law and investigation skills. Before I entered academia I worked as a news reporter for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. My Ph.D is in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. Since 2008 I have been working with The National Archives (TNA) as their consultant for the ongoing release of the UFO files created by Britain's Ministry of Defence. My latest book, How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth, was published in 2015.
Snopes.com – Rumour has it…- Pat Robertson: ‘Gay People Should Wear Specially-Colored Clothes to Warn Straight People’? May 23, 2017
- Does ‘Paint Thinner’ Trisodium Phosphate Lurk in Cereals? May 23, 2017
- Police: Man Slays Neo-Nazi Roommates Over Islam Disrespect May 23, 2017
- Infowars Receives Temporary White House Press Pass May 23, 2017
- Oklahoma School Apologizes for Hitler Yearbook Quotation May 23, 2017
- Magonia Blog
- POST-MORTEM EXAMINATIONS May 22, 2017
- TOO MUCH INFORMATION? May 18, 2017
- INTO THE MAGIC FOREST May 15, 2017
- ILLUSTRATING MAGIC May 11, 2017
- FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS May 9, 2017
- Mark Pilkington & John Lundberg – Folklore & Deception in the UFO Age
- Mirage Men in The Guardian August 18, 2014
- Mirage Men Double Disc DVD June 16, 2014
- UFOs and F-14s over Iran May 2, 2014
- We have lift off! March 27, 2014
- Mirage Men revealed by Greenwald? February 25, 2014
- Bob Sheaffer’s Bad UFOs
- William Tompkins Reveals Reptilians, Nordics, Nazi Saucers, and Much More May 22, 2017
- Tom DeLonge's "Sixtyish" Days to UFO Disclosure Become "Ninetyish" May 17, 2017
- Satellites Flash and Flare April 7, 2017
- The "Battle of Los Angeles" - A First-Hand Account March 15, 2017
- "Ken's Moon" Comes Crashing Down March 9, 2017
- The Skeptic magazine
- Ooops! TWO errors in previous message! October 1, 2015
- October Spookiness! October 1, 2015
- Empirical Sex Talk on Dacryphilia, tonight October 1, 2015
- Little Atoms 393 – Timothy Snyder & Black Earth September 30, 2015
- Ash Pryce on "How to talk to the dead" @ Greenwich SitP, 7:30 pm, 7/10/15 September 30, 2015
- Charles Fort Institute Blog
- Exciting news from Mr X August 13, 2016
- The First Forteans: The Light of Other Days August 11, 2015
- Edinburgh Fringe 2015 August 5, 2015
- A Baby Boy! August 5, 2015
- Fortean Approaches to the Study of Religion May 6, 2015
- Curt Collins on saucers in pop culture
- Ray Bradbury's Orbs from Mars May 10, 2017
- UFO Contact: April 1, 1967 from Loco, TX March 31, 2017
- UFO Books 101: Required Reading by Paul Dean March 23, 2017
- UFOs, Kenneth Arnold and the American Bible March 15, 2017
- Flying Saucer Musings March 8, 2017
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- Pseudoscience and Science Fiction October 9, 2016
- Astronomical debunking October 2, 2016
- Contradiction - the All-Video Murder Mystery September 25, 2016
- Sacred Porn September 18, 2016
- Astronomical computers (old ones) September 11, 2016
- Paul Kimball’s The Other Side of Truth: Don’t believe, don’t disbelieve. Think
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100 years of Fake News: The German Corpse Factory
False stories that masquerade as real news are not a product of the modern age. But few realise the modern era of ‘Fake News‘ began one hundred years ago – during the carnage of the First World War. In the … Continue reading
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