Episode #068

From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020.

On this episode:

• Contorium: how a conspiracy narrative embraced a Turkish parody crystal by Serdar Basegmez, from February 2025

• Don't Be A Dick: revisiting Phil Plait's 2010 advice to skeptics by Sean Slater, from February 2025

• The Russian Game: the conspiracy mongering propaganda techniques designed to stoke division by Dave Hahn, from May 2022

• Bill Cooper: the conspiracy theorist who links afrofuturist "Hoteps" with Alex Jones by Aaron Rabinowitz, from April 2021

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