The Podcast from Australia for Science and Reason.
Join Richard Saunders and his team of reporters for your weekly dose of skeptical news and interviews, reports and comments.
Past guests have included, James Randi, Stephen Fry, Tim Minchin, Eugenie Scott, Dr Phil Plait, Michael Marshall, Dr Steve Novella, Dr Pamela Gay, Jon Ronson, Dr Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh, Prof. Richard Wiseman, Dick Smith, Banachek, Prof. Chris French, George Hrab, Tim Ferguson, Dr Paul Willis and many, many more.
Featuring Australian radio legend Maynard with his Spooky Action, Jo Alabaster from the 'Evidence Please' blog, Eran Segev's Grain of Salt, Dr Rachael Dunlop with 'Dr Rachie Reports' and Heidi Robertson aka 'The Raw Skeptic'.
0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders
0:05:26 Grain of Salt.... with Eran Segev More in the series of interviews from QED. This week Eran chats to Myles Power, a youtuber who fights misinformation …
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0:04:46 Grain of Salt.... with Eran Segev More in the series of interviews from QED. This week Eran chats to Alice Howarth and Mike Hall from the popular 'Skepti…
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0:06:23 An American View.... with Evan Bernstein What might a Trump presidency mean for the future of science and education in the USA? We ask Evan Bernstein, ca…
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0:06:05 Grain of Salt.... with Eran Segev More in the series of interviews from QED. This week Eran chats to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki the Australian science communic…
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0:05:30 The Raw Skeptic Report.... with Heidi Robertson
Every year thousands of Australians are unnecessarily suffering and dying prematurely because of alterna…
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0:09:00 Grain of Salt.... with Eran Segev In this, the first of a series of interviews from QED, Eran chats to the crew from the ESP podcast.
András G Pintér, Hu…
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0:04:33 More Good Thinking... with Michael Marshall The Good Thinking Society welcomed the decision by NHS Wirral CCG to decommission homeopathy and Iscador serv…
0:00:00 Introduction Maynard - Richard Saunders - Stefan Sojka
0:06:27 A Grain of Salt - With Eran Segev This week Eran looks at the increasingly bizarre chain of emails being send from anti-vaccine …
0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders Also an update to the Vaxxed, Castlemaine Local and International Film Festival story.
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/tag/william-thompson
0:10:14 Dr Lynne…
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0:07:00 Ben Goldacre Homeopathic hucksters. Nonsensical naturopaths. Anti-intellectual anti-vaxxers. Slippery statisticians. The ‘journalists’ daring to declare …
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0:05:35 Sharon Hill We talk to Sharon Hill about her web site 'Doubtful News' and look into the merits (or not) of Ghost Tours. Also... Bad Clowns?
http://doubtf…
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0:07:30 Bad Science Watch in Canada We chat to Michael Kruse about so called Naturopathic Doctors in Canada thumbing their nose at the law.
http://www.badscience…
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0:05:57 Dr Angie at Dragon Con We catch up with Dr Angie Mattke and ask her about the talk on alternative medicine she gave at the Skeptrack at Dragon Con in Atl…
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Richard Saunders (and the skeptical cats)
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Mother who posted video of her baby is bullied by anti-vaxxers online
The mother who posted a heartbreaking video of her five…
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Heidi Robertson
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The Raw Skeptic Report
This week Heidi Robertson has another report from the recent Brisbane Skepticamp. She chats to Enrique Bustamante and learns abo…
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Richard Saunders
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Cupping and Wiki with Susan Gerbic
We chat to Susan who tells us of her efforts to bring the Wiki page on the quackery of Cupping up-to-date.
https://…
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Richard Saunders
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Australia's Science Channel
We chat to Dr Paul Willis, director of the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) who tells of the new Science Channel and…
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Richard Saunders
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Fiona O'Leary and her VAXXing Issue
We chat to Fiona about her work promoting autism issues in Ireland and the recent letter she received telling her t…
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0:05:55 The Raw Skeptic Report with Heidi Robertson Paleo and TV chef Pete Evans says sunscreen contains 'poisonous chemicals' This week Heidi looks at some of t…
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Richard Saunders
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A call to ban veterinary surgeons from prescribing homeopathy as a treatment for animals
We talk to Dr Danny Chambers about his petition in the UK to …