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:

• If anal sex injuries really are on the rise, it's not a question of anatomy, but of education, by Kat Ford from March 2023

• From the archives: The Demise of Parapsychology, 1850-2009, by Ray Hyman from April 2012

• How and why to set up and run your own Skeptics in the Pub group: top 10 tips, by Brian Eggo from September 2022

• Why I now believe parapsychology is a science not a pseudoscience, by Chris French from  September 2021

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