Episode #047

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:

• The 'Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis' that wants us to believe aliens have always been among us, by Dave Hahn, from August 2024

• The story of the Satanic Panic is a tale of religious and cultural paranoia in America, by Deborah Hyde, from June 2021

• Moms for Liberty: serving moral panic with a side of BASIC cannibalism, by Aaron Rabinowitz, from April 2022

• From the archives: Homeopathy and the 10:23 campaign, by Mark Williams, from July 2012

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