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Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Covering politics from the far center
The Data Skeptic Podcast features interviews and discussion of topics related to data science, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and the like, all from the perspective of applying critical thinking and the scientific method to evaluate the veracity of claims and efficacy of approaches.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality - Produced by SGU Productions, LLC: https://www.theskepticsguide.org
A comedy podcast to help better understand humanity and also to make fart jokes.
Skeptics with a K is the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking from the Merseyside Skeptics Society.
Host Alex J O'Connor (from the YouTube channel 'CosmicSkeptic') discusses and debates deep and important issues with experts from a variety of philosophical, scientific and theological disciplines. Departing from Alex's snappier style on YouTube, this podcast presents more thorough analyses of the topics at hand, with help from a wide range of well-known professionals.
Building a bridge for skeptics across Europe
The Podcast from Australia for Science and Reason. Join Richard Saunders and his team of reporters for your weekly dose of skeptical news and interviews, reports and comments. Past guests have included, James Randi, Stephen Fry, Tim Minchin, Eugenie Scott, Dr Phil Plait, Michael Marshall, Dr Steve Novella, Dr Pamela Gay, Jon Ronson, Dr Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh, Prof. Richard Wiseman, Dick Smith, Banachek, Prof. Chris French, George Hrab, Tim Ferguson, Dr Paul Willis and many, many more. Fea ...
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Professional Skepticism: A Podcast About Scandals, Conspiracies, & Convictions. Let’s discuss real people and all things taboo. Promise we'll have a laugh while we do it. New episodes every Wednesday! Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/professional-skepticism/support
Culture. News. Politics. Resident Skeptics is dedicated to civil discourse on difficult and uncomfortable topics. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/residentskeptics/support
For science, reason, and critical thinking
Science and Critical Thinking in Manitoba
A paranormal podcast released every #SpookyWednesday where Kala and Brittany discuss haunted locations, paranormal encounters, and creepy objects! And then rate them on their Skeptic Scale of "Para" to "Normal"! Check out our website at https://www.leftofskeptic.com to submit your listener story, check out our episode map, or read our sources! For information on our social media, sponsors, and all others visit https://linktr.ee/leftofskeptic.
We are excited to be here. We are messy. We make mistakes. We come back stronger. We question everything. We are a work in progress. We are Skeptic Generation. A new live call-in show for an expanding community of diverse and compassionate atheists. Join Eric Murphy and Vi La Bianca every Sunday morning at 11:30am CT by visiting tiny.cc/callSG or calling 585-LAMURPH (585-526-8774).
We here at AmateurSkeptics are not scientists. We are normal people who are trying to look at the world with an evidence-based approach. We strive to have open minds and change our opinions with new evidence.
Welcome to the Two Skeptical Chaps, with three Skeptical Chaps; Dr Dan, Spike and Ollie. Everything from news, politics, current affairs and social media. Anything that annoys or delights us. And if you are easily offended or underage, you probably shouldn’t be listening. But we want you to!
A weekly look at the odd world we live in. Everything from missing people, ghosts, conspiracy, and everything weird going on in our world. Each episode I will have a guest on and present a story to them and see what their beliefs are on the topic. Mid week episodes on Pennsylvania local legends.
We listen to and take apart a random internet sermon every Sunday and see what is worth keeping.
BSP: Believer Skeptic Podcast is a podcast that delves into strange and humorous phenomena including simulacra (seeing Jesus on your toast), supernatural sightings, crypto-zoology, and so much more. Cody and Chris have created a platform on which they discuss both sides of the phenomena (real or bulls**t) while sipping on booze and spirits that represent their chosen topic. They hope to entertain, enlighten, and maybe even educate you on all things fun and weird. Whose side will you be on? A ...
Promoting critical thinking, social justice, and left wing politics by covering current events and talking to a variety of people
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Sosnoff / Ratigan - Truth or Skepticism from tastytrade
Tom Sosnoff and Dylan Ratigan reunite for a weekly podcast, ranting on everything from sports and investing to politics and monetary policy.
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Radio Free Nashville's Mystic-Skeptic Radio Show/Podcast with David Daniel
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Radio Free Nashville's Mystic-Skeptic Radio Show/Podcast with David Daniel
Mystic N Skeptic
The Mystic-Skeptic Radio Show/Podcast broadcast on Radio Free Nashville asks the tough questions and explores different alternatives to today’s pressing issues, theories or enigmas. The podcast is devoted to the exploration of all things mystical, philosophical, scientific, political conspiratorial, and cosmic. Join us in an exploration of the mystic-skeptic mind-spaceYou can visit our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mystic-and-the-Skeptic/1509946599296195?ref=hlor watch our ...
A skeptical look at conspiracy theories. Site: www.yrad.com/cs
They look alike, they talk alike, they even live across the street from one another. But when it comes to the debate over the paranormal, these two sisters couldn't be more opposite. Listen in, while one sister tries to convince the other that ghosts do, in fact, exist. They may never get to the bottom of the truth, but they'll sure laugh a lot while trying.
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Wits & Weights: Strength Training for Skeptics
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Wits & Weights: Strength Training for Skeptics
Philip Pape
For busy professionals who want to get strong and healthy with strength training and a sustainable diet. I’m your host, Philip Pape, and in each episode, we’ll examine strategies to help you achieve physical self-mastery through a healthy skepticism of exercise and nutrition science, and a commitment to consistent lifting and nutrition.
Like Mulder from the X-Files, we want to believe.So we've embarked on a journey of discovery. We've talked to people deeply entrenched in the spiritual, metaphysical, mental health and self help worlds. We've thrown ourselves into weird and wonderful experiences, and we're sharing them with you in an effort to find the trick to self-growth.Whether your interests lie in the metaphysical or the spiritual or even grounded in the three dimensional world, this show will help you explore the endle ...
This is the podcast version of the Skeptics in the Pub Online live-streamed talks. We take the audio and give it to you in a nice easy podcast feed for you to listen at your pleasure. All of the talks are still available on our YouTube channel if you want to see any visuals/slides/etc. We will release the live shows as we do them on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month and on weeks when there isn't a live show, we will release an episode from the archive.
A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment brings the inner science of Buddhist meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. It is a secular approach to meditation that requires no belief beyond our current understanding of science and psychology. Skeptic’s Path meditations are based on powerful analytical meditation techniques that use imagination, emotions, and critical inquiry to probe our inner and outer realities and expand our compassion. These Tibetan Buddhist ...
Welcome to the Skeptical Pervert podcast, where we take a rational, skeptical look at many of the beliefs, attitudes, and ideas surrounding sex and human sexuality. The Skeptical Pervert is a fun, entertaining (we hope!) look at the weird, wonderful world of sex, seen through a rational, skeptical, evidence-based eye.
Is it time to listen to something different? Something alternate, without the usual bias, or levity applied to subjects routinely dismissed? If you find yourself viewing the normal world as odd, or perhaps out-of-touch with your own reality, tune in to our podcast, where we will be sharing the words (and various missions) of the OeC Magazine columnists, and people within the different communities that touch our hearts, our souls, and of course, manifest change within our fractured world.Our ...
Why do we believe weird things? What does feminine intuition really mean? How do you become an effective activist for science and reason? Are you ready for a monthly show that poses these questions and more? Tune into the Token Skeptic for a slightly more skeptical look at stories in the news, urban legends, good science, pseudoscience, and what makes popular culture pop.
A frank discussion of what it means to live as a skeptic in the closest thing to a theocracy in modern America.
Paul Loebe runs Sgt Skeptic. It used to be a humorous blog about atheism in the military. He now focuses on fantasy writing, D&D, and other nerdly crafts.
I'm a skeptic teenager whose been forced to be Christian all my life. I'm now very skeptical and would like to find out more. Join me while I analyze the Bible!
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The Skeptic Metaphysicians - Metaphysics 101
This episode will absolutely BLOW. YOUR. MIND! This week’s guest describes Reverse Speech as another form of human communication. He states that language is bi-level, forward and reverse. As our brains construct the sounds of speech, it actually forms those sounds in such a way that two messages are delivered at the same time, totally unbeknownst t…
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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
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#472 Malcolm Xtra Large with Reggie Conquest
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Comedian Reggie Conquest converted to Islam over the pandemic. He talks to no religion former Jew current jerk comedian Ari Shaffir about how it happened. Reggie read the autobiography of Malcolm X (who would have turned 97 last week) and gained an interest in religion because of what he read in the book. Reggie knows very little about Islam but he…
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss274_Frans_de_Waal_2022_05_03.mp3 Download MP3 What is gender? How different are men and women? Are differences due to biological sex or to culture? How do they compare with what is known about our fellow primates? Do apes also culturally learn their sex roles or is “gender” uniquely human? Shermer a…
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BSP: Believer Skeptic Podcast
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Seances R Us
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We have a very special live episode for you recorded for the Arizona Theatre Matters 2022 Festival. In it, we talk all about seances (as if it wasn’t obvious from our last minisode). First, Cody talks about Helen Duncan, the last woman tried as a witch in Britain for talking to dead soldiers during WW2. Then, Chris discusses Mae West, the Hollywood…
Emojis are arguably one of the most effective ways to express emotions when texting. In today’s episode, Xuan Lu shares her research on the use of emojis by developers. She explains how the study of emojis can track the emotions of remote workers and predict future behavior. Listen to find out more!
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Radio Free Nashville's Mystic-Skeptic Radio Show/Podcast with David Daniel
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White Genocide Conspiracy Theory
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In 2020 we discussed the "Replacement" or "White Genocide" Conspiracy Theory. This issue is now at the forefront again after the massacre in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Michael Heiser gave us his take on what led the Poway Synagogue Shooter (a devout Christian) to harm a group of Jews at a Chabad Synagogue? We now present this relevant program in which …
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Skeptic Generation
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Surprise Birthday Livestream! | Skeptic Generation | Episode 21 Season 2
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The week of our birthday surprise episode is here: and it's a retrospective! We're going to be reviewing some of our favorite (or most cringe-worthy) clips from our first year as an independent live call-in show. Get ready to hear our thoughts on Robin, Chad, Jay, and Flat Earther Connor (among others). We won't be taking calls this week, so save y…
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Project Skeptic
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EP 29: Heavens Gate
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On this weeks episode Jay, Andy and Other Matt are talking Heavens Gate. What a strange and sad story. We try and figure out how people end up in cults like these. Also Think that Jay is trying to be a cult leader??? All this and more on this weeks episode of Project Skeptic Email: Projectskepticpod@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grou…
0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:05:56 UFOs Invade the US Congress Again with the aliens! Yes once again UFOs disguised as jets and balloons are makimg the news. This time, those who can't handle the truth have taken their conspiracy theories all the way to capital hill in Washington. https://www.the-sun.com/news/5356929/us-wreckage-ufos-tru…
On today's podcast, we will be introducing you to two new concepts for many of our listeners, Automatic Writing and Automatic Speech, and their place in the spiritual world. For more information email our host at roweaton@bigpond.com, or leave us a message on our contact page via tomspod.com! Photo by Thirdman from Pexels Support the show (https://…
No one can consistently time markets which is why buying low and selling high doesn’t work. It’s why investors are panicking now. They didn’t have the foresight to sell at the top or at least acknowledge markets can come down. Social media companies in particular have enjoyed a run of ever increasing valuations. Today, investors are panicking as to…
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Professional Skepticism
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E21: The 27 Club with 28-Year-Old Aaron Chance Wilson
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Join us today as we host the freshly-turned 28 Aaron Chance Wilson to discuss one of his favorite topics, The 27 Club! Talk about Divine Timing.Follow us on Instagram & Twitter: @profskeppodcastEmail us at: professionalskepticismpodcast@gmail.comZoe McDaniel & Professional Skepticism Podcast own the rights to the audio and music played in this epis…
A guided meditation on impermanence that helps us release fear and anxiety to embrace the constant change at every scale of reality: from particles, possessions, homes, and the environment, to our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, and relationships. When we embrace impermanence, we more easily take on challenges like today’s Coronavirus crisis. …
On this week's episode: Primary season makes us miss the time of locusts ... Noah makes a strong case that we should just outsource our voting stuff to Australia ... And against all odds, we learn that Donald Trump is even dumber than we thought. To support our show on Patreon, go here: https://www.patreon.com/skepticrat To hear more from Evil Gira…
When lingerie goes missing, which is worse, a ghost or a disgruntled ex? Our Fan Favorite this week is Piper. If you would like to support their small business, go to www.primozu.com. We also mentioned the episode she wrote in about her son, so if you want to go back and hear that incredible story, it is on episode 9. The Ghost of Mary Poppins? Ple…
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Skeptics in the Pub Online Podcast
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RETRO: Talk Data to Me: The neuroscience of sexual arousal and desire – Angel Russell
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Two of the most pervasive myths that I spend my time deconstructing are (1) that humans have a specific part of their brains devoted to sex and (2) that humans have an innate “drive” to be sexual. Neither of these things are true, and it’s important that people understand that. When folks believe these misconceptions, it can make it feel like there…
Justin (professional historian and Marxist-Leninist) and Cory(Labourer and Anarcho-Communist) talk about Peter Kropotkin's book Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution Get your copy of Mutual Aid here - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolution Check out the full shownotes here - https://skepticalleftistpod.w…
News Items: Health Benefits of Clean Energy, SIDS, Growing Plants in Lunar Soil, Milky Way Black Hole, Gullible Acupuncture Article; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Language and AI, Raw Food Diet; Science or Fiction
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https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss273_Cathy_Young_2022_4_22.mp3 Download MP3 Shermer and Young discuss: Florida’s “Don’t say ‘gay’” law • What is the appropriate age to discuss sex and gender issues with children? • sex, gender, and trans matters • Critical Race Theory, race and racism, and age appropriate discussions • white privil…
Nessie is back – unless the camera is onUkraine wins the Eurovision Song Contest and Putin is not happy about it. On the other hand the other ESC – the European Skeptics Congress – should make everybody happy! Register now! Guerilla Skepticism on Wikipedia, GSOW, is a great thing and Annika celebrates five years on the team. In TWISH we learn about…
On this MID WEEK episode Jay talks about a cryptid from the state of Pennsylvania. What a sad creature. To live your existence crying and in fear of seeing yourself on a moonlit night. This week we talk The Squonk. Email: Projectskepticpod@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/projectskeptic/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/project_skep…
For the last year plus, we’ve heard repeatedly about a Great Resignation. It seemed the power dynamics shifted from management and ownership to labor. Demand was so extreme that laborers could demand wages and/or accommodations that might not otherwise be able to request. But in the span of just the last couple weeks, the pendulum swung back away f…
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The Skeptic Metaphysicians - Metaphysics 101
What if when you weren’t feeling well, someone could scan you….and not only tell you what’s wrong, but also send energetic healing to help you. And what if this person could even tell you how close to dying you were? This week's guest is the host of Ask Julie Podcast, which is heard by millions in over 100 countries, where she scans and helps calle…
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Left of Skeptic
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Episode 69: “Once you go ghost, it’s what you want the most.”
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Fair warning… this episode is NSFW. It is the Spooky Wednesday that Kala had been waiting for… Episode 69! Kala starts the episode with the concept of spectrophelia, where people just love to bang it out with ghosts. This may sound weird, but it’s much more common than you might think. And if it’s not believable, then the multiple sex puns Kala mak…
Let's get lost in the endless maze of fluorescent lighting hell that IS The Backrooms. There's levels to this shit. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter: @profskeppodcast Email us at: professionalskepticismpodcast@gmail.com Zoe McDaniel & Professional Skepticism Podcast own the rights to the audio and music played in this episode. Sources: https://yout…
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sciencesalon/mss272_Stuart_Vyse_2022_4_21.mp3 Download MP3 Shermer and Vyse discuss: What is a delusion? • veridical perception • perceptual illusions and irrationalities • Kahneman vs. Gigerenzer: rationality, irrationality, and bounded rationality • Rational Choice Theory and Homo economicus • William Clifford v.…
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Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank
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#471 2022 State Of The Union with Dave Smith
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Dave Smith joins me to have our annual (except last year) what’s up with America. We covered everything. From the new baby exterminator laws to the current President, to the media’s attack on Joe Rogan, to the crime wave (of which I’m responsible for some) to homelessness, to Elon Musk, to the war in Ukraine. Dave gives an honest and non-biased run…
We cling to things as if they won’t change, but change is the nature of reality. When we embrace impermanence, we prepare ourselves for big changes, and are able to let go of our fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us, to make the most meaningful choices day-to-day, and to more deeply appreciate life’s fleeting pleasures. …
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Wits & Weights: Strength Training for Skeptics
Last year, I went under the knife for a microdiscectomy, a type of minimally invasive spine surgery where a portion of a herniated disc is removed using microsurgical tools. In this episode, I share my story of what happened, how I dealt with low back pain in the context of health and fitness, the surgery and recovery process, and lessons I learned…
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Skeptics and Seekers Sunday Sermon (4S)
Still think the doctrine about demons is harmless? This story should inform you of why it matters. Weep!
On the show today, Fabian Braesemann, a research fellow at the University of Oxford, joins us to discuss his study analyzing the gig economy. He revealed the trends he discovered since remote work became mainstream, the factors causing spatial polarization and some downsides of the gig economy. Listen to learn what he found.…
Boy do we have a minisode for you! First, Cody tells the story of a freaky Ouija board experience that unleashed a famous demonic force known as Zozo. Then, Chris shares an equally freaky story in which people play what they thought was a harmless “game” only to get more than they bargained for. This may be the easiest guess ever, but you’ll be in …
Holy spooks, do we have some creeeeeepy stories for y'all this week! Our Fan Favorite this week is Sarah. If you would like to support their cause, you can volunteer some time visiting a local nursing home!Please remember to Rate, Review and Subscribe on Apple Podcast and Spotify. If you would like to write in, find us on patreon, buy merch or find…
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Project Skeptic
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EP 28: Death and Reincarnation
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This week Jay and Rob talk death and reincarnation. What does really happen after you die? Do you go to heaven? Does it just go black and that's it? Maybe we are reincarnated into something else. All we know is that we are optimistically hopeful. All this and even more this week on Project Skeptic Email: Projectskepticpod@gmail.com Facebook: https:…
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Skeptic Generation
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Cringey, Absurd, Touchy-Feely Garbage | Skeptic Generation | Episode 20 Season 2
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This week we got a rave review from a fan, namely that we are more cringey, absurd, and touchy-feely garbage with each passing week. We're so excited to be making such consistent progress, and hope you'll join us this Sunday to witness us taking one more step toward greatness: call us at 585-526-8774 or tiny.cc/callSG. SOME EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENTS M…
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The Amateur Skeptics Podcast
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Amateur Skeptics Podcast 289 Notes: Amateur Skeptics Podcast 289 ... read more
