Posts in skepticism
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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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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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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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

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 Abhyankar & Dr Khare – Mental health, Patanjali, and evidence based medicine

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

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Interview: Dr Shantanu Abhyankar – From homeopathy to modern medicine

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.

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What is Evidence? Part 1: Randomised controlled trials

Want to figure out for yourself if a claim’s full of crap…or not? This is the first step.

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