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:

• Failure to listen to patients is causing unacceptable delays in endometriosis diagnosis, by Alice Howarth, from October 2020

• We all want to feel special and unique - which is what leads some of us to conspiracy theories, by Dave Hahn, from October 2021

• Being Reasonable: what we can learn from people who hold fringe beliefs, by Michael Marshall, from June 2022

• Ear candling: why putting burning sticks into your ear is actually quite a bad idea, by Michaila Passananti, from December 2023

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