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  Michael Marshall - 24th June 2026
  
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  Mauro Proença - 15th June 2026
  
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  H.B. Gibson - 28th April 2026
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  Michael Marshall - 24th June 2026
  
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  Dayton Murphy - 10th June 2026
  
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  Patients can’t have true autonomy in health without access to good information
  
  André Bacchi - 1st June 2026
  
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  Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole
  
  Michael Marshall - 29th May 2026
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  Mike Hall - 8th June 2026
  
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  Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
  
  Hj Hornbeck - 20th May 2026
  
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  How a very wrong Royal horoscope put astrology on the map in Britain
  
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  Remembering Nick Pope, “the UK’s top UFO expert” (1965-2026)
  
  Chris French - 29th April 2026
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  Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
  
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  Michael Marshall - 29th May 2026
  
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  Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan
  
  Michael Marshall - 10th April 2026
  
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  The Italian electoral abstention, and the self-fulfilling conspiracy theory plot
  
  Allegra Brachini - 25th March 2026
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  Graeme Morledge - 17th June 2026
  
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  The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
  
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  In the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans
  
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From the archives: A metallurgical miracle? All that glisters is not gold

Dave Mitchell, Paul Munro - 30th June 2026

From the archives of March 1993, Paul Munro and Dave Mitchell scientifically investigate an alleged miracle in which silver turned to gold.

The Skeptic Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 070

26th June 2026

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From the archives: A metallurgical miracle? All that glisters is not gold

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From the archives: Carlos Castaneda and the Don Juan caper

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