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The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #013

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:

  • Is the US government in contact with an alien “galactic federation”?, by Chris French, from January 2021

  • The graveyard of skeptical projects suggests it's funding, not talent, that we're lacking, by Jonathan Jarry, from January 2024

  • Kardecism: the fringe spiritualist doctrine which became the soul of pseudoscience in Brazil, by Carlos Orsi and Natália Pasternak, from January 2021

  • The strange and deeply unlikely tale of Gef the talking mongoose, by Sean Slater, from March 2024

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