Episode #015

The Skeptic Podcast

Jun 06, 2025

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Episode description

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:

The conspiracy theorists scaremongering about UN Agenda 21 have obviously not read Agenda 21, by Mark Horne, from September 2021
Electrician Sheds Light on Viral Birmingham Ghost Mystery, by Hayley Stevens, from September 2020
An awareness of your body is useful, but the Alexander Technique probably isn't, by Alice Howarth, from August 2024
Who runs the world According to conspiracy theorists, it’s Beyoncé, by Pai Jing Wen, from March 2025

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