The latest inquiry into misinformation, known as the Climate Inquisition, should have been held in Salem, not Canberra.

(The Conversation) — Between 1400 and 1780, an estimated 100,000 people, mostly women, were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe. About half that number were executed – killings motivated by a ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. The medieval phenomena ...

Women living in Indian villages are banding together with the help of “microcredit” business loans of about 750 rupees ($18) to help prevent modern-day witch hunts that can prove fatal to their ...

Mother-of-two Rachel shows the scars from wounds inflicted on her in April 2017 when she was accused of sorcery and tortured with hot machetes, spades and rods for a full day by people she knew in the ...

A spate of brutal witch-hunts has plunged parts of Papua New Guinea's highlands into a state of terror, as fearful tribes blame dark forces for their rapidly changing world. In one particularly ...