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:

• A Mystery to Ourselves': from the Witches of Worboys, to an epidemic of Tik Tok tics, by Deborah Hyde, from October 2021

• Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white, by Sarah Hearne, from March 2021

• The paradox of progress: how some social improvements paper over unfairness and inequality, by Aaron Rabinowitz, from October 2021

• From the archives: UFOs Over Russia, by Tom Ruffles, from March 1990

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