The Skeptic Zone #880 - 17.August.2025

Update: 2025-08-17

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Introduction
Richard Saunders

00:03:34

The World Without the Modern Skeptical Movement

We imagine what society would be like if James Randi and people like him never started the modern skeptical movement. What would the world be like?

0:16:56

You Can Count on Adrienne. With Adrienne Hill

Relationship Gurus with Karen Bijkersma #1

The Internet seems full of people who want to offer you advice, for a price, on your relationships. This week Adrienne Hill talks to author Karen Bijkersma about some of these gurus and institutions.

0:31:52

Australian Skeptics Newsletter

What skeptical news has caught the eye of Dee this week?
Read by Adrienne Hill.

http://www.skeptics.com.au

0:44:20

The TROVE Archives

A wander through the decades of digitised newspapers on a search for references to a "Jinx".

1937.08.13 - The Evening Indepentent
1982.08.12 - The Gadston Times
1951.08.31 - The Lighgow Mercury
1949.10.22 - The Newcastle Sun
1954.03.11 - The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette
1950.11.09 - The Guyra Argus

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

Also

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