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Hysteria 51 is a weekly podcast that takes an every-man approach to the World of the Weird - UFOs, Aliens, Mysteries, Conspiracies, the Paranormal, the Unusual, and the Unexplained. Hosts Brent Hand, David Flora, and Conspiracy Bot (a cranky robot bent on world domination who also happens to be the show’s head researcher) examine a different topic each week and generally come to one conclusion…the truth is out there, but you won’t find it here.
 
"People aren't logical, they're psychological with the emphasis on the psycho," writes Dr Howard Rankin. An expert in cognitive neuroscience, Howard recently published his book I Think Therefore I Am Wrong which looks at the many ways we can sabotage our thinking through cognitive biases, binary thinking, false assumptions and numerous other strategies. The How Not To think podcast examines how this false reasoning manifests itself in many areas of society through myths, and 'conventional wi ...
 
Welcome to Oh No, Ross and Carrie, the show where we don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, but take part ourselves. Follow us as we join religions, undergo alternative treatments, seek out the paranormal, and always find the humor in life's biggest mysteries. We show up - so you don’t have to.
 
We look at how to tackle the destructive rise of scientific misinformation and disinformation. Each episode is a live recording of one of the public events hosted by Challenging Pseudoscience, at the Royal Institution. We’re a diverse collective of journalists, scientists, academics and social media experts who came together in 2019 to look at this problem from different angles. The group is supported by the Royal Institution and the Open Society Foundation, and based in London. The goal is ...
 
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Pseudophiles

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Pseudophiles

Ben, Torrance, and Sidney

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Pseudophile (SOO-doh-file) - (noun) A lover of all things mysterious, paranormal, and conspiratorial. We are three friends from the middle of nowhere Arkansas with an affinity for pseudoscience, the paranormal, and anything seemingly too crazy to be true. In this podcast we aim to take our love for the fantastical ideas of the world's most misinformed and transfer it to you in an easy to follow conversational format.
 
A podcast wherein Montana & McDeviltoast discuss random topics, from music to film, from science and pseudoscience to vagazzling. /// Call or text us at (209) 736-7474 to leave a message. Ask a question, make a comment, or whatever! We may use it in a future show! /// iTunes feed: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/we-are-not-delicious/id360906785 /// non-iTunes feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/WeAreNotDelicious
 
The only podcast dedicated to discussing the predatory & dangerous business practices behind Multi Level Marketing - MLM, the sugarcoated term for "pyramid scheme." We'll be bringing you quality snark, expert guest hosts, & damning evidence that will only make you say YIKES. New episodes each Monday. Subscribe on the platform of your choice - and don't worry, we won't harass you to join our team, call you "hun," or imply you need to lose that baby weight. #antimlmmovement 🚫🔺 Listen, laugh, a ...
 
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The Body of Evidence

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The Body of Evidence

Dr. Christopher Labos and Jonathan Jarry

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Vaping, dieting, seeing a chiropractor, taking omega-3 supplements… so many decisions to make, so much misinformation. Dr. Christopher Labos and Jonathan Jarry look at the body of evidence on these topics to tell you what’s solid, what’s iffy… and what’s crapola. The jingles, comedy, and bickering help the medicine go down.
 
Your user's guide to life on the outside. Leaving religion is the first step into a larger, better world. But it can also be a scary world. Things work differently now. Never fear: that's why we’re here! We're your audio uncles, and with help from good friends and experts in all sorts of fields, we're going to share the stories and seek the knowledge we all need for building a great life! After all, you only get one (that we know of), so you'd better make the most of it!
 
Chemistry can be a daunting aspect of science for many people. Luckily Drs. Jared Bruce, Megan Newcomb, Krista Fruehauf and Dan Huh are here to help you navigate the subject. From atoms to proteins, these four chemists give a lighthearted take on the world of science for everyone. Guests from industry, government and the academy give a unique view behind the process getting to their respective positions.
 
This is the podcast version of the Skeptics in the Pub Online live-streamed talks. We take the audio and give it to you in a nice easy podcast feed for you to listen at your pleasure. All of the talks are still available on our YouTube channel if you want to see any visuals/slides/etc. We will release the live shows as we do them on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month and on weeks when there isn't a live show, we will release an episode from the archive.
 
Come And See analyzes both the history and current state of Fascism and the American Right by looking at its roots in conspiracy, pseudoscience, pseudohistory, the Spiritualist movement of the 19th century, and the many proto-fascist and fascist movements of the 20th century. We talk about aliens, magicians, Nazis, cryptids and con artists in an effort to examine just how we got where we are. Come and See.
 
Podcast from the Foreign Press Association USA. The Foreign Press Association was founded in New York on 16th February, 1918 as the Association of Foreign Correspondents. After WW II the name was changed to the Foreign Press Association to better reflect our membership's titles and positions. It has no ties with any government and is free from all national and political bias. It is a strictly independent, not-for-profit organization. ​ www.foreignpressassociation.org
 
Join Tony Rich, Level II USAT certified coach, certified sports nutritionist, certified master swim coach, Level II TrainingPeaks Certified coach, Guinness World Record holder and finisher of over 100 long course events. Together with guests they'll discuss the science of self-propelled motion and also explore some of the most important topics within the intersection of endurance sports training, health, fitness, society and life current events.
 
Welcome to The Dirt on the Past from The Extreme History Project and Gallatin Valley Community Radio, KGVM. Whether digging up a site or dusting off the archives, we bring you some of the most fascinating and cutting edge research in history and archaeology, and discuss why it matters today. Join co-hosts, Crystal Alegria and Nancy Mahoney as we converse with professionals in the fields of history, archaeology, and anthropology who bring the past…into the present.
 
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Carrie shares a talk she gave focusing on the trauma-informed community and its various expressions in therapy and on the internet. Learn how tricky it can be to define trauma, who the major contributors in this space are, and how to navigate the perilous predominance of pseudoscience and avoid the trauma trap. Ready to talk cult studies, retrospec…
 
Trauma, gaslighting, narcs, multiple personalities, and the rest of the human mind. Where better to learn about these things than TikTok, Instagram and Twitter? Carrie Poppy (Oh No, Ross and Carrie) takes you on a tour of some of the most popular social media pseudoscience, how to spot it, and what you can say when you see it. Carrie Poppy is an in…
 
How can we navigate a health and fitness space riddled with pseudoscience and misinformation? What does it mean to live in the post-truth era? How can we all train ourselves to become better critical thinkers? We dive into all this and more with Dr. Nicholas Tiller, who we discovered because of his call to action paper about the need for exercise s…
 
Today I spoke with Professor Alan Levinovitz, author of Natural: How Faith in Nature’s Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed Science. We talked about the myth of the natural, pseudoscience, neurodiversity and post-pandemic life. Listen to the podcast on the audio link below. Also available on Spotify, Stitcher or iTunes. https://n…
 
Jonathan and Chris speak to Dr. Justin Sanders, the director of palliative care at McGill, on the topic of medical assistance in dying (MAiD). What are the arguments for and against MAiD? And what do we make of the thornier aspects of euthanasia, like its intersection with disability rights and the conflict of interest at the heart of a government …
 
In the final lark of the Ark arc, Ross tells Carrie about the wild, final hours of the homeschooling conference. Time to pull out the American flags and light the fires! 80s heartthrob Kirk Cameron arrives to tell us all about puritan statuary and kick off a movement that will spread the gospel, but also teach Constitutional literacy and firearm ha…
 
Our guest for this episode is Newton Cheng, a father, world class powerlifter, engineer, and Google's Director of Health and Performance. In his work he leads a team with the mission to support the physical, mental, social and spiritual health and wellbeing of Google's global workforce. We went into this conversation looking to compare corporate we…
 
Naturopathy is scary! For three years, I practiced as a licensed “naturopathic doctor” in the United States. The overwhelming majority of naturopathic care relies extensively on dubious alternative therapies, rather than established protocols based on medical and scientific research. In this Halloween-themed talk, I share the experiences that led t…
 
Originally Released July 20, 2017 I've always been interested in three psychology experiments that study human behavior. They are the Asch Experiment, the Milgram Experiment, and the Stanford Prison Experiment. Dave Brodbeck joins me to actually talk about the field that he actually teaches (he also teaches statistics, which we've discussed) at Alg…
 
Georgia’s ruling party announced the withdrawal of the “foreign agent” bill from the parliament but implied that it will retry with a modified version that obscures its alleged origins in Moscow. Sadly, reminiscent of Ukraine ten years ago, Georgia’s rulers are attempting to disguise their dependence on Moscow-leaning oligarchs in the face of popul…
 
Questions Answered in this AMA [00:03:01] Mechanisms that keeps weight stable over time? [00:11:52] Semaglutide: Game-changer? Weight regain? [00:30:42] How to further lower LDL-C? Can I avoid statins? [00:43:52] Glyphosate: A cause for concern in food? [00:48:30] High caffeine intake is making me sweat more. What’s going on? [00:55:16] Should I av…
 
… and it’s time to start planning your QED trip!We are in the latest issue of the Australian Skeptics Magazine – thanks again dear friends for inviting us to Skepticon last year! New adventures are waiting in the new year with QED dates just announced, so it’s time to start planning for a trip to Manchester in September. We renew our call for Word …
 
Subscribe to hear the full episode! Annyeong, beloved listeners! On this very special episode of Nymphet Alumni, K-Pop conscripts Biz and Sam tackle Course 1 of the koreaboo masterclass, taught by world-renowned seonsaengnim Alexi. We define and deconstruct some of K-Pop’s most notable aesthetics: saccharine second-gen synth-pop, dark romantic neoc…
 
Join Crystal and Nancy, co-hosts of The Dirt on the Past podcast, for a history minute where they discuss how Bronze Age women had stronger arms than today's elite female rowers, due to grinding grain for hours a day. "This is the first study to actually compare prehistoric female bones to those of living women," said lead researcher, Dr Alison Mac…
 
Join us as we talk with Amanda Hendrix-Komoto about her new book, Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific which was published in 2022. We discuss the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, focusing in on the women of the historical narrative including the wife of Joseph Smith. We talk abo…
 
Science is full of all sorts of paradoxes: We can travel to the depths of space, but can't cure the common cold. We can split the atom, but can't figure out why time flies when you're having fun. We can map the human genome, but can't predict the weather accurately. It's like we've unlocked the secrets of the universe, but can't find the remote con…
 
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider what to do about E-Waste and worthless old technology. Old cables, old smartphones, 500MB hard drives, and the like. It's OK to get rid of it (and you probably should), but don't just throw it in the garbage unless you're a bad person. In the news, new open gangway subway cars debut on the A train in New York, and…
 
Ross tells Carrie about the homeschool-teaching instruction he received at the Building Strong Foundations Conference, including important pedagogical questions like: What is science? How does a dictionary work? What questions can science not answer? Did you know your hair holds the key to your divinity? Turns out, the more your hair is like a prim…
 
Links: Go to episode page (with links & resources) Subscribe to Sigma Nutrition Premium Receive our free weekly email, The Sigma Synopsis About This Episode: Often claims are made recommending that people should aim to keep peaks in blood glucose low in terms of both magnitude and frequency. And while many claims about blood glucose “spikes” are in…
 
Scientific approaches to understanding reproductive choice - the decision to have a child, the decision to terminate a pregnancy, etc. - typically position decision-makers as rational. Attention is paid to economic forces of change (e.g., industrialisation, rising costs of living, globalisation), to explain why people are having fewer children rela…
 
Job Fransen is a skill acquisition specialist working at the University Medical Centre Groningen in the Netherlands and a adjunct fellow at the University of Technology Sydney’s School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation. His research focuses on optimizing skill acquisition in athletes. He has worked with high performance athletes and individuals…
 
Gerard Scheenstra is a seasoned creative and innovative “social” impact entrepreneur, disruptive thinker and doer, business manager, mentor, coach, teacher and speaker. Since 1986 Gerard has created and gained professional “work” experience (both nationally and internationally at C-level) in various capacities in organizations and since 2000 as a m…
 
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