The Skeptic Zone #871 - 15.June.2025

Update: 2025-06-15

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Introduction
Richard Saunders

00:04:22

You Can Count on Adrienne. With Adrienne Hill.

Adrienne interviews Sebastian Toews, Dawson VonStein, and D.J. Crossland, all students from Grant McEwan University who presented at the Edmonton QE II Skepticamp that Kat McLeod and Rodney Schmaltz organised. Then she talks to Coleman Watts after a hike near Banff where they discuss his latest video release. Then look out as they encounter a Bigfoot wannabe in the form of a grizzly bear!

0:16:16

What is Pseudoscience?

Science or Pseudoscience? What are the hallmarks of something that masquerades as or pretends to be scientific? This week we look at some of the ways you can identify fake science from real science.

0:27:14

For crying out loud! It's Kat McLeod

This week Kat pays homage to her prairie roots by having a look at something that has crept back into the news lately, crop circles. Yes, just when you thought they were left behind in the 1990s or early 2000s, they are back and crazier than ever.

0:37:12

The TROVE Archives

A wander through the decades of digitised Australian and international newspapers on a search for references to ESP.

1974.07.19 - The Ledger
1984.01.14 - Waycross Journal-Herald
1971.09.28 - Sarasota Journal
1995.11.30 - The Canberra Times

The Case of ESP - BBC 1984
https://youtu.be/h2Gog3xMluA

http://www.trove.nla.gov.au