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: 

• In modern-day Scotland, there should be no mandatory acts of worship in schools, by Brian Eggo from May 2022

• From the archives: Going to great lengths - long-hair pseudoscience, by Wendy Grossman from January 2011

• January 8th, and the insurrectionist riot provoked by Bolsonaro and the Brazilian army, by Thiago Vahia from February 2023

• The writing’s been on the wall for decades, but still the graphology persists, by Mark Horne from September 2023

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