The Skeptic Podcast: Episode #083

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 Beecher story, the origin of the placebo effect myth, likely didn't happen, by Mike Hall from February 2025

• Health food stores - a danger to public health? by Edzard Ernst from February 2021

• #TradWife: the misogynistic movement based on cosplaying an American ideal, by Claire Klingenberg from April 2024

• The Satanic Panic and the McMartin pre-school trial, by Sean Slater from July 2024   

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