Skeptoid

Your podcast episodes are so good and informative! I especially love your Voodoo ax murder when you explain about the snake part! And thank you so much! You really help me and my family.

Long before “alternate facts” and conspiracy theories became mainstream, Brian Dunning has been debunking nonsense and promoting scientifically based reasoning. It feels like I have been listening to him forever. Knocked down a 5-star review because of all the annoying ads.

Thank you so much for the MAHA episode. We know you took a risk to spread the truth. Would welcome more of this type of subject. Cult behavior is rampant at the highest levels. The more scientifically and statistically proven truths we can get out to more people the better!

It is natural to be intrigued by mysteries and entertained by colorful stories, but those instincts betray us when we end up preferring fact-free stories to the truth. The decay of traditional media into machines programmed to feed us stories we’re entertained by has caused a crisis of misinformation that human societies are still struggling to fix. Skeptoid is a paragon of how to report facts concisely, carefully, and honestly. How many other podcasts or news sources feature corrections (even though they’re almost all minor details that don’t affect the main takeaways) as prominently as Skeptoid does? I can’t think of any. That is just one obvious sign of Brian’s scrupulous, responsible approach to his podcast. I taught logic and critical thinking for 26 years and Skeptoid is a model of how we should all conduct ourselves when listening to and evaluating fanciful stories and dubious claims of all kinds.