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:

• Conspiracy theorists cry betrayal at Trump's selective approach to immigration by Dave Hahn, from February 2025

• Cannibalism: The long history of a modern propaganda tool by James Williams, from April 2025

• Project Blue Beam is finally happening... as long as you cherry pick very carefully by Nick Garratt, from February 2025

• JD Vance is right - for anti-intellectuals like him, the professors are the enemy by Edzard Ernst, from September 2024

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