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Quackcast 121: Who you gonna believe, me or you own eyes?

Quackcast 120: Homeopathy RamblingsHom

Quactcast 119: Two Viewpoints

The gang does some shuffling for Episode 256 of The Reality Check as Elan joins Adam and Darren to record in Ottawa while Pat sits lonely in his lofty Toronto studio. The show starts off with Elan discussing the latest diet fad, going gluten-free. Adam then leads a game of Science Fact or Science Fiction™ about weddings. Darren closes things off by looking into whether Toronto is the most dangerous city in Canada.

Marlene Zuk is a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, her main research interest being behavioural ecology, the study of the evolution of behaviour. Her research centres on sexual selection and the effects of parasites on mate choice and the evolution of secondary sex characters. Marlene Zuk is the author of Sexual Selections: What we […]

This Day in Skepticism: Robert House; News Items: Hunt for Alien Spaceships, 3-D Printing, Lunar Calendar, Full Moon and Sleep; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Man-Chimp-Pig; Science or Fiction

A special question and answer edition of the show where the team get to grips with your queries, including, do hairs know they've cut? Is someone who sweats sooner fitter? How do noise-cancelling headphones work? How do we know what's inside Earth? Why are there no whale-sized insects? Does protein suppress appetite? And could there be a planet with a green atmosphere?

MonsterTalk returns from its break with guests Donald Prothero and Daniel Loxton who introduce their long-awaited book Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. READ episode notes

Dr. Stuart Robbins, host of Exposing Pseudoastronomy, is back to talk about his TAM experience, his new World Net Daily Watch project, and whether or not a spaceship and squirrel were found on Mars. Hint: no.

During the cold war, rumor has it that the American CIA conducted 20 years of illegal research on American citizens without their knowledge. How much truth is there to this?

00:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 00:05:40 Dr Rachie Reports - With Dr Rachael Dunlop Antivax chiros and accountability – as evasive as a subluxation. 00:16:30 ANDINSCIENCE Campaign We find out about the effort to get more science into the media. 00:25:38 A Week in Science - Extra Dr Paul Willis from the Royal Institution of Australia. 00:30:40 A chat with Radford and Dunning Be a fly on the wall as Richard Saunders talks with Ben Radford and Brian Dunning. 00:49:08 Maynard’s Spooking Action... Maynard interviews Marlowe Cassetti about the early days of NASA

This Day in Skepticism: Insulin; News items: Giant Virus, Gluten, Death Wave, The Pitch Drops, Revenge of the Conspiracy Theorists. Cassini Picture of Earth; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Alison Gopnik is a Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. She is an internationally recognized leader in the study of children’s learning and development and was the first to argue that children’s minds could help us understand deep philosophical questions. She is the author or co-author of a number […]

255 Episodes in and TRC is still bringing the skepticism in a big way. The show starts off with Pat covering some commonly believed myths about our home country of Canada. Darren then presents some non-traditional ways to keep cool in the summer. Elan closes things out by answering whether the cesarean section procedure is named after Julius Caesar.

Psychic spies, flying fish, floppy disks and flying kicks. Plus the Asylum, the Touch of Death, aspirin and the CIA. They keep asking us back to do more… it’s Skeptics with a K.