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: 

• What William Radam's "Microbe Killer" can teach us about modern stem cell quackery, by David Weinberg from May 2021

• Is the ultra processed food fear simply the next big nutritional moral panic?, by Alice Howarth from July 2024

• Despite what Jordan Peterson believes, medical error is not the ‘third leading cause of death’ by Michael Marshall from May 2021

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