In this episode, we sit down with Evan Bernstein from the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. Evan shares his journey into skepticism, the impact of the Skeptics Guide, and his personal background, including his religious upbringing and transition to skepticism. We delve into various topics, such as the role of skepticism in understanding the latest scientific and skeptical news, free will, the pseudoscience in finance, and the influence of popular culture on pseudoscientific beliefs. Don't miss this deeply insightful conversation that touches on critical thinking, the skeptical movement, and more.

I call them like I see them. When someone's a fraud, I call them a fraud. When someone's lying, I present their lies to them, if in the case of a debate, to their face, and press them. I'm not here to play nice. This is not how I would behave with someone with whom I have a genuine disagreement

people would have an upset stomach and he'd pray over them and suddenly it wouldn't have an upset stomach anymore. And there were a lot of things that could be attributed to a placebo effect. When you have physical contact with someone, your body releases oxytocin. Which is called the love hormone, but it's more than that. it has a calming, soothing effect. so you've got this whole chemical explosion in your brain in this incredibly high adrenaline situation where you're in a faith healing rally and you're anticipating it.

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.

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.

we have in several European countries Australia North America, so Mexico, Canada. Yeah. There is currently no support group per se in Asia, unless you count Australia as Asia. I guess not. There's not but still, we will support people from anywhere. We have several phone lines. They're all in English from different English-speaking countries. , but anyone can contact us and we'll talk about what we do through the web. You just get to our web page and you can chat to us or you can make a web-based phone call for free. So yeah, we will talk to people from anywhere in the world.

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.

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.

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.

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

Do you have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines? Dr Paul Offit is here to answer them all!

The government is allowing Ayurvedic practitioners to perform certain types of surgery. Is that wise?

Leonard Tramiel and I discuss the passion for science, the importance of science literacy and getting the facts exactly right, and his journey through the sceptical movement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To celebrate Doctor's Day India 2020, I speak to Dr Shantanu Abhyankar, MD, MBBS, Gynaecology, and Dr Anand Khare, MD Psychiatry.

Our first edition of Rationable Interviews features Dr Shantanu Abhyankar, a gynaecologist and a sceptic activist. We speak about his journey from homoeopathy to mainstream medicine, the relationship between Ayurveda and homoeopathy, and his work as an activist.