The name Sherlock Holmes is all but synonymous with logic. Sherlock isn't gullible. Through every iteration of the Holmes mysteries, every reboot and retelling and fanfiction story, the world's most ...

Since his death in 1930, at least a dozen authors have offered up biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, one of them with almost the same title as this one. Russell Miller’s excuse for another is that ...

One of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century began with a sensational headline: Fairies Photographed! The yarn endured for six decades, until a rather disappointing confession in the 1980s confirmed ...

First human embryos edited in the United States. Megan Molteni discusses some (not all) of the problems with Shoukhrat Mitalipov’s research. The Third Reich and “World Ice Theory”: “Throughout this ...

Two photographs which famously fooled Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into believing in fairies have sold at auction for more than ten times their estimated value. The images of the Cottingley Fairies, as they ...

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Photographs of one of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century have sold for £2,600 at auction - more than twice their estimated worth. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, you ...

Even the most devoted Baker Street Irregular or Baker Street Babe must have trouble keeping up with the frenetic celebration of Sherlock Holmes and his creator Arthur Conan Doyle—the movies and TV ...