Healthy Scepticism

In this era of fake news, we will examine and find sense in the doubt, cynicism, suspicion and distrust in and around medical practice from the mid-20th century to the present. 

We will lay the groundwork for a larger and more focused work in this area via a combination of research into archives, interdisciplinary workshops and a robust and dynamic website. We aim to understand what medical sceptics past and present, in individual encounters and in public disavowals of medicine, have expressed in their refusals to comply with conventional medical and public health views. 

We hope to shed new light not only on the position of medicine in a sceptical world as well as offering a critical perspective on the health of scepticism itself as a form of critical engagement.