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EPISODE · Dec 26, 2025

Episode #044

from The Skeptic Podcast · host Merseyside Skeptics Society

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: Whisper it quietly and go heavy on the caveats, but David Icke is right, by Dave Hahn from March 2024From the archive: Forgive us our trespasses - Rendlesham and diplomacy, by Peter Brookesmith from April 2006Mas Sajady: the Get Well quantum guru who just wants to know if he makes sense, by Michael Marshall from October 2022Christmas as we know it is appropriated, co-opted, bastardised… and thoroughly magical, by Paul Duncan McGarrity from December 2020Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Dec 26, 2025

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: Whisper it quietly and go heavy on the caveats, but David Icke is right, by Dave Hahn from March 2024From the archive: Forgive us our trespasses - Rendlesham and diplomacy, by Peter Brookesmith from April 2006Mas Sajady: the Get Well quantum guru who just wants to know if he makes sense, by Michael Marshall from October 2022Christmas as we know it is appropriated, co-opted, bastardised… and thoroughly magical, by Paul Duncan McGarrity from December 2020Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic

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