From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020. On this episode: Natural" health influencers will tell you sunscreen is bad for you - are they right? (No), by Alice Howarth from June 2023 When shows like Pod Save America run psuedoscience ads, they undermine their credibility, by Michael Marshall from February 2021Are there hidden messages in the Bible? Revisiting the claims of the Bible Code, by Klash Schmeh from October 2011 Blackpool's 'Chariots of the Gods' park is built on racist assumptions about the past, by Mark Horne from February 2021Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic
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Episode #037
From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020.On this episode: David Icke’s 2018 live tour sowed the seeds for his move back to the mainstream, by Michael Marshall from April 201810 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease, by Alice Howarth from February 2021Technophobia: Facebook and computers cause cancer; typewriters apparently don’t, by Mark Williams from January 2011(35:59) 2019’s ‘The Mandela Effect’ is a stylish, shallow exploration of a rather silly conspiracy theory, by Mark Horne from April 2021Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic
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Episode #036
From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020.On this episode: Climate change deniers set Net Zero as the new target for their misinformation, by Michael Marshall from January 2022Science can be a candle in the dark, as long as you're not actively trying to avoid the light, by David Weinberg from June 2022When The Skeptic came of age: a 2011 reflection on the first 21 years of the magazine, by Wendy Grossman from January 2011The real story behind those crystal skulls Indiana Jones went looking for, by Sean Slater from July 2023Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic
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The Ockham Awards 2025
From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal. In this special episode, our editor Michael Marshall announces the winners of the 2025 Ockham awards.
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Episode #035
From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020.On this episode: One small step at a time, the alternative medicine industry is radicalising people... with disastrous consequences, by Michael Marshall from November 2020The Canary Islands’ Black Pyramids: history doesn’t have to be mysterious to be interesting, by Mark Horne from December 2021From the archives: Jacques Benoit's (failed) experiments with telepathic snails, by Toby Howard from November 1988Why Inaccuracies in Bill Cooper's influential conspiracy theory book serve as its strength, by Thiago Vahia from September 2023Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic
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