The Skeptic · Scour

Episode 070

The conspiracy theorists who now hold local council seats across the UK

Covers Carol Vorderman demands apology from Reform candidate over ‘disgusting comments’

Aromatherapy, the NHS maternity crisis, and the obsession with “natural” birth

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From the archives: Carlos Castaneda and the Don Juan caper

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The Nobel Prize - winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive

Episode 069

The Odyssey of Helen’s skin colour: casting controversies and bad philology

AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich

Covers AI is simultaneously aiding and replacing workers, wage data suggest

From the archives: The Cyril Burt affair, and historic accusations of fraud

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Autohemotherapy: blood pseudoscience with a Brazilian twist

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Episode 068

Five “zombie facts” about history that we need to consign to the past

Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation

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From the archives: Skepticism, 1895 Style

Pam Reynolds, and putting ‘out-of-body experiences’ to the scientific test

Episode 067

The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal

Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness

From the archives: The theft of the Tarot Pack, and the history of Tarot

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Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information

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