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Episode 36 – Gary Voorhis: Tic-Tac UFO Witness
Gary Voorhis was a computer technician on the USS Princeton during the 2004 "Tic-Tac" UFO incident (commonly referred to as the "Nimitz Incident" after the aircraft carrier heading the strike group.) He thinks what he saw was some kind of advanced technology, possibly alien technology.
Episode 35 – Mike Santangelo: 9/11 Truth vs. B.S.
Mike is a member of the 9/11 Truth community. He thinks there might have been explosives used on 9/11 to cause the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings. He does NOT think that a cruise missile hit the Pentagon, and considers that, like some other common 9/11 beliefs, to be "B.S."
Episode 34 – Stian Arnesen: Debunking, Censorship, 9/11, and UFOs
Stian is someone who has been quite deeply involved in the 9/11 Truth community and the UFO community. He also just read my book: Escaping the Rabbit Hole, and has a few questions for me...
Episode 33 – Anthony Magnabosco: Street Epistemology and Conspiracy Theories
Anthony Magnabosco is the most well-known practitioner of the craft of “Street Epistemology”, which he defines as: “a dialog where you use questions to explore somebody’s claim to see how they concluded that it’s true.”...
Episode 32 – The Skeptic of the North: Former Conspiracist, Current Skeptic
Phil is a former conspiracy theorist in Northern Ireland who got into conspiracy theories aged 18, around 14 years ago. Going to university exposed him to a variety of people and to new ways of...
Episode 31: Professor Elizabeth Loftus – Memory and Conspiracy
Elizabeth Loftus is an expert on memory. We discuss how that sometimes relates to the world of conspiracy theories.
Episode 30: Tom – 9/11 Why We Believe and Change
Tom has dabbled in a few conspiracy theories over the years, and still thinks there are some significant questions that have never been answered about why the World Trade Center buildings fell down the way...
Episode 29: Geoff – Everything is a Hoax, The Earth Might Be Flat
Geoff says that six years ago he was “as normal as everyone else,” but when he was caught up in the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bomber (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev) he took an interest in the...
Episode 28 – Brian Dunning: Skeptoid, Conspiracies Declassified, and Science Friction
Brian Dunning is a prolific skeptical podcaster with his award-winning show "Skeptoid" coming up on its 700th episode.
Episode 27 – Michael Shermer: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories — The Great Courses
Dr Michael Shermer is founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic. He's written several books on science and skepticism and his latest work is an audio-only 12-part course on Conspiracies.