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The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #039Featuring articles from Brian Eggo (September 2021), Chris French (November 2024), Mar...
21/11/2025

The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #039

Featuring articles from Brian Eggo (September 2021), Chris French (November 2024), Marcel Hulspas (September 1988), and Mark Horne (June 2022).

Featuring articles from Brian Eggo (September 2021), Chris French (November 2024), Marcel Hulspas (September 1988), and Mark Horne (June 2022).

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness: How do we measure happy countries? | Tim Jokl
21/11/2025

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness: How do we measure happy countries? | Tim Jokl

Instead of measuring the success of countries by GDP, we should pay more attention to how happy they are, and what contributes to that happiness

Michael Marshall | Has Elon Musk invented a magic device to reduce your electricity bill? (No)Websites promising an end ...
20/11/2025

Michael Marshall | Has Elon Musk invented a magic device to reduce your electricity bill? (No)

Websites promising an end to high energy costs, thanks to a miracle device developed by Elon Musk, draw people into a scam that's too good to be true

Websites promising an end to high energy costs, thanks to a miracle device developed by Elon Musk, draw people into a scam that’s too good to be true

Hayley Stevens | The BBC’s NightWatch is a control group for Ghost Hunting TVWest Country comedy siblings Daisy May and ...
19/11/2025

Hayley Stevens | The BBC’s NightWatch is a control group for Ghost Hunting TV

West Country comedy siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper's Nightwatch shows how mundane ghost-hunting actually is, when you're not faking it for ratings

West Country comedy siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s Nightwatch shows how mundane ghost-hunting actually is, when you’re not faking it for ratings

Lewis Jones | From the archives: Premanand, Scourge of the Indian GodmenFrom the archives in 1992, Lewis Jones reports f...
18/11/2025

Lewis Jones | From the archives: Premanand, Scourge of the Indian Godmen

From the archives in 1992, Lewis Jones reports from Indian skeptic and rationalist Premanand's public talk in London, about his life's work

From the archives in 1992, Lewis Jones reports from Indian skeptic and rationalist Premanand’s public talk in London, about his life’s work

Madeleine Goodall | A forgotten sceptic: William M. Knox, the one-eyed atheist of BelfastWriting in the late 1800s, Iris...
17/11/2025

Madeleine Goodall | A forgotten sceptic: William M. Knox, the one-eyed atheist of Belfast

Writing in the late 1800s, Irish atheist William M. Knox took aim at the emerging trend of spiritualism, séances, and communicating with the dead

Writing in the late 1800s, Irish atheist William M. Knox took aim at the emerging trend of spiritualism, séances, and communicating with the dead

Schrödinger’s Client List: why the Epstein conspiracy theory will not go away | Dave Hahn
16/11/2025

Schrödinger’s Client List: why the Epstein conspiracy theory will not go away |
Dave Hahn

Donald Trump’s team has spent years cultivating a conspiracist base – it won’t be so easy for him to move on from his close associations with Jeffrey Epstein

The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #038Featuring articles from Michael Marshall (Feb 2021), Alice Howarth (June 2023), Klaus ...
14/11/2025

The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #038

Featuring articles from Michael Marshall (Feb 2021), Alice Howarth (June 2023), Klaus Schmeh (Oct 2011), and Mark Horne (Feb 2021).

Featuring articles from Michael Marshall (February 2021), Alice Howarth (June 2023), Klaus Schmeh (October 2011), and Mark Horne (February 2021).

J.D. Vance has been criticised for hoping his Hindu wife might convert to Catholicism, but does that differ from skeptic...
14/11/2025

J.D. Vance has been criticised for hoping his Hindu wife might convert to Catholicism, but does that differ from skeptics and atheists spreading doubt?...

J.D. Vance has been criticised for hoping his Hindu wife might convert to Catholicism, but does that differ from skeptics and atheists spreading doubt?

Exploring the limits of skepticism. Part 2: The plot thickens | Chris FrenchLucid dreaming is a much-tested paranormal c...
12/11/2025

Exploring the limits of skepticism. Part 2: The plot thickens | Chris French

Lucid dreaming is a much-tested paranormal claim, never reliably showing positive results - so why did this new experiment seem to bear fruit?

Lucid dreaming is a much-tested paranormal claim, never reliably showing positive results – so why did this new experiment seem to bear fruit?

From the archives in 1992, philosophy professor and author Antony Flew reviews the Creationist argument for a designer d...
11/11/2025

From the archives in 1992, philosophy professor and author Antony Flew reviews the Creationist argument for a designer deity...

From the archives in 1992, philosophy professor and author Antony Flew reviews the Creationist argument for a designer deity

Polyamin was hyped as a miracle cure for spinal injuries in the media, despite there being no published scientific paper...
10/11/2025

Polyamin was hyped as a miracle cure for spinal injuries in the media, despite there being no published scientific papers presenting the evidence...

Polyamin was hyped as a miracle cure for spinal injuries in the media, despite there being no published scientific papers presenting the evidence

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