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Skepticality #288 - 'Psychic' Detective!

Jan 19th, 2018 1h 10m

Derek sits down with Bob Nygaard, a retired police officer from New York City who moved to Florida and now has a second career helping victims of Psychic fraud. Find out what it takes to help victims of a crime often ignored by law enforcement.

Skepticality #287 - Counting Backwards

Dec 19th, 2017 1h 4m

After a long break, Derek comes back just in time for Christmas. This time he sits down with Henry Jay Przybylo, (Dr. Jay), to discuss his new book 'Counting Backwards'. Dr. Jay is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Northwestern Univer

Skepticality #286 - Fighting Post-Truth

Jul 4th, 2017 1h 21m

Fighting post-truth politics, promoting rational thinking and wise decision-making in the political sphere seems like it has become harder in the past couple years or so. Gleb Tsipursky, founder of 'Intentional Insights', which unites reason-or

Skepticality #285 - Houdini's Final Incredible Secret

May 9th, 2017 1h 22m

This episode Derek talks with Bob Loomis, librarian at the Magic Circle, and scholar of the history of stage illusion. His latest work is the book "Houdini's Final Incredible Secret", which is a detailed account of Bob's obsession with figuring

Skepticality #284 - Son of a Buffett - Interview: Peter Buffett

Mar 15th, 2017 1h 10m

This episode Derek sits down with Peter Buffett, the son of the famous investor, Warren Buffett. Peter became famous not for his investing and banking skills but for his work in music and composing. He and his wife now run a non-profit charity,

Skepticality #283 - Lets Get Uncomfortable!

Jan 24th, 2017 1h 27m

This week Derek has a conversation with returning guest, Dr. Bo Bennett. In the past few months Bo has been working on his latest book, 'Uncomfortable Ideas'. In the book, Bennett discusses many of the 'hot button' topics which even the most ra

Skepticality #282 - Britt Hermes Diary

Jan 2nd, 2017 59m 57s

For the new year episode of Skepticality, Derek presents an interview he recorded with Britt Hermes, a former Naturopath turned evidence based medicine advocate. Find out what happens when you go from licensed alt-med practitioner to evidence b

Skepticality #281 - The Clades

Dec 23rd, 2016 40m 50s

This episode Derek has another conversation with Jonathan Tweet, game designer, book author, and past Skepticality guest. After the success of his last book, 'Grandmother Fish', a book aimed at teaching pre-school children about Evolution, his

Skepticality #280 - Drawing The Skeptics

Nov 15th, 2016 45m 50s

This episode Derek has a conversation with Tini Howard, writer of graphic novels and former comics contributor for Paste Magazine and Teen Vogue. Just a couple weeks ago Tini released her newest comic book series 'The Skeptics'. The series is a

Skepticality #279 - Dream On

Oct 25th, 2016 1h 13m

This week Skepticality starts out with a touching message about friend of the show and past contributor to Skepticality, Bob Carroll. Then Derek talks with comedian, talk show host, and political commentator, John Fugelsang about 'Dream On', a

Skepticality #278 - Medical Nonsense

Oct 18th, 2016 1h 30m

This episode Derek plays one of the lectures from this past Dragon Con. There is a lot of misconceptions about what can actually heal, and what is *actually* medicine. Find out what some of the most common, and sometimes funny, treatments that

Skepticality #277 - Illustrating Women in Science

Sep 20th, 2016 1h 3m

This week Derek talks with Illustrator/Author Rachel Ignotofsky. Once a illustrator for Hallmark Greeting cards, she now focuses her talent for creating easy to understand and attractive art on creating works that inform others about science an

Skepticality #276 - HALmilton

Aug 16th, 2016 1h 14m

This episode Derek hands over most of the episode to Swoopy who conducts an in-depth interview with Hal Bidlack, a Hamiltonian scholar and performer who gives Chautauqua performances as Hamilton himself. They discuss how Hal ended up living a d

Skepticality #275 - Exodus

Jul 26th, 2016 1h 11m

This episode Derek has a chat with David Person and Chuck Miller about their new documentary project, 'Exodus', a feature-length documentary about the growing number of African-Americans leaving religion. Chuck is a regional director for the Am

Skepticality #274 - Science Tales

Jun 28th, 2016 41m 29s

kppn2u3r Derek has discussion with artist/writer, Darryl Cunningham, about his work and how a health care assistant/cartoonist decided to take on the job of educating the public about misconceptions surrounding psychiatry, science, and even wor

Skepticality #273 - A Fishy Evolution Update

Jun 14th, 2016 29m 39s

Derek does a quick update discussion with Jonathan Tweet, the author of 'Grandmother Fish - a child's first book of Evolution'. Since last Jonathan was on Skepticality to discuss his Kickstarter project to create a book which appeals to the you

Skepticality #272 - The Invention of Science

May 31st, 2016 1h 10m

Derek grabs some time with Professor of History, David Wootton, to talk about his latest book 'The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution', a book about the early years where the modern methods of inquiry and scientifi

Skepticality #271 - Viewing the World with a Rational Eye

May 17th, 2016 1h 11m

Derek nabs some time with Dr. Micheal Shermer, the man in charge of Skeptic Magazine and the Skeptics Society for a little update and chat about his new book highlighting his fifteen years writing a regular column for Scientific American magazi

Skepticality #270 - Watching Science

Apr 12th, 2016 58m 59s

This episode Derek has a discussion with Dr. Ivan Oransky, MD. Dr. Oransky is the global editorial editor for MedPage Today, and co-founder of Retraction Watch, a site which reports on scientific integrity, fraud, and other issues. He previousl

Skepticality #269 - The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Mar 27th, 2016 51m 53s

A special Easter day episode with Raphael Lataster. Raphael is a writer and Religious Studies expert who focuses on the history of religion. Raphael recently has been working with Richard Carrier on the historicity of Jesus, and the likelihood

Skepticality #268 - A Numerate Life

Mar 15th, 2016 52m 19s

This week Derek sits down with the author of "A Numerate Life: A Mathematician Explores the Vagaries of Life, His Own and Probably Yours", John Allen Paulos. The author has written books weaving math into facets of life with book topics ranging

Skepticality #267 - Bad Clowns

Feb 16th, 2016 1h 14m

This episode Derek chats with Ben Radford, a Skepticality past guest, author, and investigator. Ben has just released his latest book, "Bad Clowns". Clowns might not be your usual idea for a skeptical topic, but Ben thinks you might just change

Skepticality #266 - Breakfast Cereal Skepticism

Jan 19th, 2016 54m 32s

This episode Derek has a conversation with Zack Wienersmith, the creator/author of the popular web comic series 'Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal' (SMBC). Zach was a speaker at The Amazing Meeting 13, so while they were both in the same buildi

Skepticality #265 - A Moment With Edell

Dec 16th, 2015 1h

Derek presents another interview from his trip to The Amazing Meeting 13, a recorded interview with Dr. Dean Edell. Dr. Edell had an impressive array of popular media shows on radio and television over the course of his career. He promoted scie