Are We Alone - Skeptic Check: Fraudcast News

There are a lot of scientific claims out there – how do you separate the good from the bad and the outright fraudulent? Experts failed to do so for years in the case of a physicist whose published papers claimed the invention of a new bio-based transistor. Plus, other stories of deceit – such as the scientist who stooped to coloring mouse fur with markers.

Also, why climate science is solid, but its scientists need to be more open with the public.

And, from the undersea “bloop” to the Denver airport conspiracy theory. Why urban myths are so popular.

Plus, Phil Plait describes someone’s plans to meditate away the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1 - Phil Plait
Part 2 - Eugenie Samuel Reich
Part 3 - Michael Shermer
Part 4 - Sheila Jasanoff
Part 5 - Brian Dunning

Are We Alone - Fraudcast News: Sheila Jasanoff

Part 4 of Skeptic Check: Fraudcast News, featuring Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of science and public policy at Harvard University.

Are We Alone: Fraudcast News - Brian Dunning

Part 5 of Skeptic Check: Fraudcast News, featuring Brian Dunning, Science journalist and producer of the podcast Skeptoid.

Skeptic Check: Conspiracy!

The Apollo moon landing is a hoax! 9-11 was an inside job! Our government keeps alien bodies racked and stacked in an underground bunker! And as for the evidence … well … put on your tin hats, folks, we’re going deep, deep, deep into conspiracy with journalist David Aaronovitch.

Also – the truth is out there, but it’s ignored. Jonah Lehrer on why scientists can overlook evidence.

Plus, money for meters and your spooks for free: ghost detectors hit the market.

And Hollywood Reality Check and Phil Plait on bogus bomb detectors.

It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1 - Brains on Vacation
Part 2 - David Aaronovitch
Part 3 - Ghost Detector
Part 4 - Hollywood Reality Check
Part 5 - Jonah Lehrer

Conspiracy! - David Aaronovitch

Part 2 of Skeptic Check: Conspiracy!, featuring David Aaronovitch, columnist with the Times newspaper of London and author of Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History.