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  Mauro Proença - 15th June 2026
  
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  The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
  
  Edzard Ernst - 5th 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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  From the archives: Quackupuncture – A question of medical ethics
  
  H.B. Gibson - 28th April 2026
  
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  André Bacchi - 23rd March 2026
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  Rio Vista: the first city to start, and then stop, water fluoridation
  
  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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  Lost in translation: why most longevity breakthroughs don’t become therapies
  
  Brian Goncus - 22nd May 2026
  
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  The rise in chronic disease doesn’t necessarily mean we are getting sicker
  
  Travis Baldwin - 24th April 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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  The demons of Varginha: The cultural context behind Brazil’s famous UFO case
  
  João Lucas da Silva - 13th May 2026
  
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  How a very wrong Royal horoscope put astrology on the map in Britain
  
  Carlos Orsi - 11th May 2026
  
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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
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 3rd 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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  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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  Venezuelan “birtherism”: the nationalistic movement to delegitimise Nicolás Maduro
  
  Gabriel Andrade - 6th March 2026
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  The Nobel Prize-winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive
  
  Tom Williamson - 22nd June 2026
  
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  The Odyssey of Helen’s skin colour: casting controversies and bad philology
  
  Gabriel Andrade - 19th June 2026
  
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  Bill Hicks embodied all the good and bad of High Weirdness
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 3rd June 2026
  
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  Jim Cliff - 18th May 2026
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  The Nobel Prize-winning scientists who ruined their legacies by staying alive
  
  Tom Williamson - 22nd June 2026
  
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  AI needs to be regulated to ensure its benefits don’t stay with the mega-rich
  
  Graeme Morledge - 17th June 2026
  
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  The Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine retraction scandal
  
  Edzard Ernst - 5th June 2026
  
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  In the era of AI, cognitive biases are not exclusive to humans
  
  Richard Glover - 27th May 2026
  
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  Learning about science and statistics through pseudoscience
  
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Robert McGrath

Robert McGrath has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Anthropology and Psychology, and is a computer programmer in Urbana, Illinois, USA.

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From the archives: Carlos Castaneda and the Don Juan caper

Robert McGrath - 23rd June 2026

From the archives of March 1993, Robert McGrath reports on the the debunking of Carlos Castaneda's shaman, "Don Juan", as fiction

The Skeptic Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 069

19th June 2026

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From the archives: Carlos Castaneda and the Don Juan caper

23rd June 2026

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

22nd June 2026

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

19th June 2026

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

17th June 2026

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

16th June 2026