Richard Saunders, a life member of Australian Skeptics and a CSI fellow, is a world-famous sceptic from Australia who has been doing activism, speaking, podcasting and promoting sceptics from around the world for decades. Other than that, he is just a fun, chilled out guy who loves origami and cats. In this interview, we chat about UFOs and ancient aliens, psychics, astrology, Power Balance bands and lots more.

Richard has been kind enough to air interviews with me and promotions for The Rationable Podcast on The Skeptic Zone. He does this for a lot of sceptics all over the world and without asking for anything in return. Now that’s being just a wonderful human being, don’t you think?

I met Richard through Brian Dunning of Skeptoid.com, who I had met at CSICON 2018 in Las Vegas, NV, USA. That event has seriously changed my life. If you haven’t gone, you should definitely try to. But first, you should come to Skepticon 2020, which promises to be a brilliant virtual convention for sceptics around the world.

Links & references

Attend the Skepticon sceptic’s conference: https://www.skepticon.org.au

Richard Saunders on Dragoncon’s Skeptic Track: https://youtu.be/-ZHWCD9i9L8

Rationable’s talk at Dragoncon’s Skeptic Track: https://youtu.be/eFLM0UzVrFY

The Skeptic Zone Podcast: https://www.skepticzone.tv/

The Skeptic Zone Podcast Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/skepticzonepodcast

Challenging the Astrologer, Milton Black: https://youtu.be/q-fjymxOrGE

Debunking Power Balance Bands: https://youtu.be/yd0Gb9EgkHA

Richard’s Origami Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuzfqFJyj3esv0N6DlEzLzCzNwWb1Ocgb

Intro and outro music: Don't Stop performed by Nothing More, from their album, The Stories We Tell Ourselves. The sound clips have been used with their permission.

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