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  Rights over regulation? The moral case against legalised snake oil
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 4th March 2026
  
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  Superficial empowerment: the hidden cost of TikTok’s skincare obsession
  
  Olivia Olin - 23rd February 2026
  
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  The dangers of flawed clinical trials
  
  Edzard Ernst - 18th February 2026
  
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  Controversy over Afro-Brazilian practices exposes the Brazilian alt-med glass ceiling
  
  Carlos Orsi - 19th January 2026
  
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  If pseudoscience actually worked, scientists would be first in line to profit
  
  Slava Amanatski - 8th December 2025
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  How arbitrary decisions become dogma in healthcare
  
  André Bacchi - 9th February 2026
  
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  No, a study didn’t show oat milk and veganism will make you depressed
  
  Michael Marshall - 30th January 2026
  
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  Alcohol is linked to developing cancer, but we should weigh up our risks accurately
  
  Alice Howarth - 26th January 2026
  
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  Hot and Bovaer-ed: using animal methane inhibitors to tackle greenhouse emissions
  
  Robyn Lowe - 21st January 2026
  
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  Physiotherapy is almost as pseudoscientific as osteopathy and chiropractic
  
  Paul Ingraham - 11th December 2025
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  The influence of sci-fi media on Zimbabwe’s Ariel School UFO sightings
  
  Gideon Reid - 16th March 2026
  
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  The “Greatest Ghost Sighting ever”: the Grey Lady of the Theatre Royal, Bath
  
  Andy Owens - 13th February 2026
  
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  Catching Killers, Not Curses: how to investigate Africa’s ‘Money Ritual’ crimes
  
  Keith K Silika, Sani K Bayero - 28th January 2026
  
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  Exploring the Archives for the Unexplained
  
  Mark Horne - 23rd January 2026
  
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  Exploring the limits of skepticism. Part 3: The value of adversarial collaborations
  
  Chris French - 16th January 2026
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  Venezuelan “birtherism”: the nationalistic movement to delegitimise Nicolás Maduro
  
  Gabriel Andrade - 6th March 2026
  
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  What the ‘Epstein Files’ tell us about conspiracy theories – and about skeptics
  
  Michael Marshall - 16th February 2026
  
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  Taylor Swift isn’t “MAGA-coded”, she is a lightning rod for conspiracist grievances
  
  Dave Hahn - 2nd February 2026
  
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  How word games and folk etymology feed into fringe beliefs
  
  Mark Horne - 15th December 2025
  
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  Why do people ignore evidence, and what actually changes minds?
  
  Zion Lights - 5th December 2025
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  75 Smart, ‘Knowledgemaxxing’, and the anxiety around social media ‘brain rot’
  
  Abigail Kennedy - 13th March 2026
  
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  Scotland’s recent rise in sex crimes is almost certainly not linked to immigration
  
  Brian Eggo - 11th March 2026
  
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  Venezuelan “birtherism”: the nationalistic movement to delegitimise Nicolás Maduro
  
  Gabriel Andrade - 6th March 2026
  
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  Rights over regulation? The moral case against legalised snake oil
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 4th March 2026
  
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  Intellectual humility doesn’t require us to be open to absolutely anything being true
  
  Aaron Rabinowitz - 4th February 2026
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  Machine learning without critical thinking only encourages tech pseudoscience
  
  Richard Glover - 9th March 2026
  
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  Dimethyl sulfide from space – a sign of extraterrestrial life, or something else?
  
  Georgy Kurakin - 20th February 2026
  
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  The dangers of flawed clinical trials
  
  Edzard Ernst - 18th February 2026
  
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  The digital doppelgänger: how algorithms decide who we become
  
  Dion Stephan Baldsing - 11th February 2026
  
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  How arbitrary decisions become dogma in healthcare
  
  André Bacchi - 9th February 2026
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The Skeptic Podcast

The official podcast of The Skeptic, the UK’s longest-running publication offering skeptical analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal.

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 047

The Skeptic Podcast - 16th January 2026

Featuring articles from Dave Hahn (August 2024), Deborah Hyde (June 2021), Aaron Rabinowitz (April 2022), and Mark Williams (July 2012).

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 046

The Skeptic Podcast - 9th January 2026

Featuring articles from Aaron Rabinowitz (December 2020), Alice Howarth (December 2020), Deborah Hyde (January 2011), and Michael Marshall (May 2024).

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 045

The Skeptic Podcast - 2nd January 2026

Featuring articles from Michael Marshall (May 2023), Chris French (January 2004), Sarah Hearne (January 2022), and Hayley Stevens (October 2020).

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 044

The Skeptic Podcast - 26th December 2025

Featuring articles from Dave Hahn (March 2024), Peter Brookesmith (April 2006), Michael Marshall (October 2022), and Paul Duncan McGarrity (December 2020).

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 043

The Skeptic Podcast - 19th December 2025

Featuring articles from Michael Marshall (March 2022), Steve Donnelly (April 2002), Michael Marshall (March 2022), and Toby Howard (December 1989).

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 042

The Skeptic Podcast - 12th December 2025

Featuring articles from Natalia Pasternack (July 2021), Jean Dorricott (May 1990), Michael Marshall (February 2022), and Ada McVean (September 2022)

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #041

The Skeptic Podcast - 5th December 2025

Featuring articles from Michael Marshall (Nov 2020), Alice Howarth (Dec 2020), Steve Donnelly (Nov 1988), and Mark Horne (Nov 2021).

Podcast

The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #040

The Skeptic Podcast - 28th November 2025

Featuring articles from Maeve Hanan (October 2024), Michael Marshall (October 2021), Wendy Grossman (January 2023), and Mark Horne (May 2021).

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The Skeptic Podcast – Episode 055

13th March 2026

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