Skeptical Science New Research for Week #17 2026

Technical note: new feature in New Research Every article we list here is eyeball-scanned by a real human but we do lean on bibliographic catalogs (publication databases) to supply article metadata for assembly of each edition of our weekly research surveillance scan. A little in-house software on our end connected via an API to a rich suite of upstream bibliographic information makes regular production possible. While recently making API changes to improve our background tooling for New Researc