Being Skeptical

Right-Click or Long Press and download to listen offline. SHOW NOTES: Study finds no evidence of publication bias in over 1,000 climate science papers. Catholic priest blesses hotel room of Las Vegas shooter. Because reasons? 30,000 studies could be wrong due to contaminated cell lines. Researching why people believe conspiracy theories. Google’s new AI surpasses […]

Right-Click or Long-Press to download and listen offline. A con for the ages, acupuncture and related practices, such as cupping, are getting ever more popular, despite the simple fact that they don’t work. There are plenty of extremely low-quality “studies” that tend to get cherry-picked in favour of acupuncture, but the evidence plainly show that […]

Right-click or long-press to download and listen offline. It’s the end of the month, so that means we have some news, a new Skeptical Hero, and of course, Astrology! SHOW NOTES: Australian man gets cyanide poisoning from home-made “supplement” Racist wins Republican Senate Primary in Alabama. TINA takes a shot at bringing down Satan’s Gwyneth […]

Right-click or long-press and save to listen offline. In this episode Jody and I discuss generational psychology and what’s wrong with it. Do “Millenials” even exist in the way they are portrayed? We’ll find out after Jody introduces a new mini-segment, and we’ll present a lovely Monthly Dose of Stupid. SHOW NOTES Deep Takes Olga […]

Right-click or long-press and download to listen offline, or find us on Google Play Music and iTunes. In our end-of-the-month episode, we’ve shortened the news to discuss all of the protesting happening lately centred around bigotry and hate. We of course, still cover the news, name a very special Skepical Hero of the Month, and this […]

Right-click or long-press and download to listen offline.  You can also find us on iTunes and Google Play Music. In this episode, Jody subjects Mark to a battery of neuroscience statements to see if he can guess which are true, and which are nonsense. You might be surprised by the answers! We also present another […]

Right-click or long-press and save to listen offline. It’s the end of the month, so that means we’re back with news! In this episode we discuss chronic traumatic encephaloptahy in football players, a potential vaccine for type 1 diabetes, and how the U.K. is stickin’ it to “alternative medicine”. And finally, in everybody’s favourite segment, […]

Right-click or long-press and save to listen offline. Enjoy a mind-boggling deep dive on the alleged “White Genocide” taking place around the world, as the Jewish superpowers controlling the world gradually replace Caucasians around the world with other races…I guess? MENTIONED CONTENT: White girl says words:   A smart person named Sean discusses how aforementioned […]

Right-click or long-press and download to listen offline. SHOW NOTES Sandy Hook hoaxer sentenced to prison time.   Belgian couple sentenced to prison time after unintentional death of their infant son. Whooping Cough outbreak strikes Southern Alberta after vaccination rates fall.   Jon Oliver speaks out about vaccine safety. Medical marijuana is complicated, and not […]

Right-click or long-press and save to download and listen offline. Starting this month, Being Skeptical is moving to a new, easier to digest format! We decided that episodes in the 1hr40min to 2hr range was probably asking too much of our audience, so we will now do a biweekly format, splitting our content up across […]