Episode #016

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:

Conspiracy theories give the illusion of control, in a system that leaves people feeling powerless, by Aaron Rabinowitz, from August 2022

HADD it's day: there's no evidence for an inherited hyperactive agency detection device, by Kat Ford, from November 2024

What's the better exercise for our health: lifting weights or doing cardio?, by Clio Bellenis, from September 2023

iNaturalist's flaws can leave people with a false impression of the natural world around them, by Sarah Hearne, from July 2021

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