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:

• Closing the information gap on GM technology means addressing fear, as well as ignorance, by Natalia Pasternak from September 2021

• Is the pandemic turning young people to god? Don't believe the prayer PR, by Michael Marshall from October 2021

• Distinguishable from intelligence? Don't mistake technology with superiority, by Wendy Grossman from January 2003

• Sine Missione, and the conspiracy theorists who use graffiti to spread pseudoscience, by Mark Horne from May 2021

Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic