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:
- Time Team’s archaeologists showed us how experts can ruthlessly unpick a hoax, by Paul Duncan McGarrity, from November 2020
- The story of Phineas Gage’s accident is well-known; what happened to him afterwards is not, by Kat Ford, from January 2024
- Have we seen the last of the vanishing phantom hitchhiker?, by Deborah Hyde, from January 2021
- The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics, by Aaron Rabinowitz, from November 2024
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