Sanal Edemaruku: Paying the price for skeptical activism
Sanal Edemaruku: Paying the price for skeptical activism

This time, I'm interviewing Sanal Edamaruku, one of the big guys in the Indian rationalist movement. He is the Founder and President of Rationalists International and President of the Indian Rationalist Association. He has done so much over the years to fight for scientific temper and rationality in India. In fact, Sanal had to leave India when a group of Christians in India started threatening him when he debunked their claim that their statue of Jesus was weeping. It turned out, the weeping Jesus was not a miracle. The truth of what was seeping out of the statue is a lot more…troubling. In this video, we talk about his origin story, the importance of scientific temper, the whole account of what led to his leaving the country, the latest updates on rationalist international, and his advice to the new sceptics and rationalists of India who are fighting superstition every day.

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The Poison On Your Plate! Unbelievable Food Facts with Krish Ashok!
The Poison On Your Plate! Unbelievable Food Facts with Krish Ashok!

So today, it's Krish Ashok, who is quite the Renaissance man. He's written a book called Masala Lab. He's got an Instagram channel called Masala Lab. He has been debunking food myths and knows the science, history, and geography behind pretty much every form of Indian food there is.

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How Seth Andrews Went From Believing in God to Hosting The Thinking Atheist
How Seth Andrews Went From Believing in God to Hosting The Thinking Atheist

There was the death of a popular Christian recording artist in the nineties, 1997. Rich Mullins was his name, horribly killed in a car accident.

I remember being on the radio telling everybody that God had called him home, and it just made no sense. I was on the radio, and in my skull, I was thinking, this is a bunch of crap. This, this doesn't, this doesn't wash.

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Is Astrology Real or Fake? Susan Gerbic and Mark Edward expose the tricks used by Astrologers and Psychics
Is Astrology Real or Fake? Susan Gerbic and Mark Edward expose the tricks used by Astrologers and Psychics

today we have a very interesting Rationable interview with two wonderful people who have been doing a lot of work fighting psychics and actually Mark has been a psychic. So Susan Gerbic, and Mark Edward are here.

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Why do People Believe in Pseudoscience? Interview with Science is Dope
Why do People Believe in Pseudoscience? Interview with Science is Dope

Today, I am here with Pranav. He created the channel Science is Dope on Youtube, and he's got a second channel going now that’s also seeing quite a bit of success where he is debating people left, right, and centre, live-streaming it. And he's been a big inspiration for me to get back into the YouTube business. So thank you for coming on, Pranav.

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Are Psychic Predictions Accurate? After analysing 4,000+ predictions, here are the results
Are Psychic Predictions Accurate? After analysing 4,000+ predictions, here are the results

Richard worked on the Great Australian Psychic Prediction Project by collecting predictions from anything published in Australia by psychics.

He collected data, gathering all of the predictions that were made, and he set a timeframe, whether it was going to be any predictions from the year 2020 in the future. And when he started, he didn't know how long he would go, but it wound up. He ended it with predictions from 2020. So from 2000 to 2020. So he did 21 years actually of predictions gathered.

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An Indian Atheist on Hinduism: Vimoh on Karma, Castes, and how to be a better atheist in India
An Indian Atheist on Hinduism: Vimoh on Karma, Castes, and how to be a better atheist in India

This is my interview with an atheist podcaster and Youtuber Vimoh or Vijayendra Mohanty. He discusses his story of becoming an atheist and his perspective on the Hindu religion. We also discuss some handy tips on discussing Hinduism with believers and the books you should read as an atheist to be more informed about Hinduism.

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Scamming Autistic People: Exposing Facilitated Communication
Scamming Autistic People: Exposing Facilitated Communication

Janyce Boynton used to be a facilitator who helped non-verbal autistic people communicate in a method called facilitated communication. She soon discovered that facilitated communication was a horrible scam taking advantage of these vulnerable people and their families. Now, it also goes by names like Rapid Prompting Method, Assisted Typing, Spelling to Communicate, and many more. So she set to work exposing the whole deal. This is her story.

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How Ayurveda Can Harm - Dr Abby Philips
How Ayurveda Can Harm - Dr Abby Philips

Dr Cyriac Abby Philips reveals some shocking truths about Ayurveda and how it can hurt you.

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Which Covid Vaccine Should You Get? | Interview with Dr Haryax Pathak, MBBS
Which Covid Vaccine Should You Get? | Interview with Dr Haryax Pathak, MBBS

Dr Haryax Pathak, MBBS, was kind enough to join Rationable to dispel myths about the vaccines and help us understand which one to choose, what the dosage interval should be, and lots more.

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What are the benefits of Black Alkaline Water?
What are the benefits of Black Alkaline Water?

I've scienced the hell out of the claims made by Evocus H2O black alkaline water and found it to be a complete scam.

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Your body's pH balance: What you need to know!
Your body's pH balance: What you need to know!

How does the body’s acid-alkaline balance actually work and how is it maintained? It’s pretty fascinating and is happening inside us all the time in very complex ways but without us even knowing. Before I give too much away, let’s start at the beginning.

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Debunking Ancient Tech, Aliens and Astrology | Interview: Richard Saunders
Debunking Ancient Tech, Aliens and Astrology | Interview: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders, a life member of Australian Skeptics and a CSI fellow, is a world-famous sceptic from Australia. In this interview, we chat about UFOs and ancient aliens, psychics, astrology, Power Balance bands and lots more.

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Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh – Part 3: The Need for Altnews Science in India
Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh – Part 3: The Need for Altnews Science in India

In the final part of my interview with Dr Sumaiya Shaikh, we discuss her work as a science communicator. She founded Altnews Science to challenge pseudoscience in India.

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Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh – Part 2: This is your brain on violence
Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh – Part 2: This is your brain on violence

Here’s the second edition of my interview with the fantabulous Dr Sumaiya Shaikh. In this episode, we discuss the dark yet fascinating world of violent behaviour and the science behind it.

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Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh – Part 1: The Fascinating science of pain
Interview: Dr Sumaiya Shaikh – Part 1: The Fascinating science of pain

Dr Sumaiya Shaikh and I had a fantastic interview where we talked about a variety of topics including pseudoscience, alternative medicine, religion, extremism and the neurological tendency of us human beings to be violent. The interview went on for quite a while so it has been split into three parts so that you can take it in one bite at a time.

In the first part, we open the conversation with her work in the study of the neurophysiology of pain. There’s a lot more to pain than you may think, and we get a fascinating glimpse of that today.

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