Oct 22/07
Nov 13/07
Episode
Three: The Cure for Cancer
Conspiracy
The great cancer conspiracy.
- Diamaxol
- Hydrazine sulfate and the NCI
- Hydrazine sulfate and Dr. Gold
- DCA
Dec 04/07
Episode Four: Alex Jones and Endgame
Alex Jones, Endgame, the New World Order, and North American Union.
Jan 01/08
Episode Five: The Moon Landing Hoax
The moon landing hoax. The Phil Plait/Joe Rogan debate revisited.
Jan 23/08
Episode Six: The Fed is Alright
Is the Federal Reserve system crooked? Comments on the flash film Money is Debt.
Feb 20/08
Episode Six B: The Fed is Alright
Is the Federal Reserve system crooked? Comments on the flash film Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve.
Mar 27/08
Episode Seven: The Vast Science Conspiracy
Is there a Big Science conspiracy? Or is Expelled and Michael Cremo fulla crap?
- Expelled Exposed
- Francis Collins and evolution
- Punctuated Equilibrium
- Fate of Einstein's Nobel prize money
- Meisterprint
- Cremo talking about the Meister print in 2003 without noting the scientific criticism
- Even some creationists are backing off some of the "out of order" fossils and such
- Hueyatlaco
- Guillermo Gonzalez
- ID is not a religion, no really
- DI's quote mining the email
- Example of DI quote mining
- The great creationist quote mining archive
- Professor Joerg Schmalian's letter
- Evolution 101 on ID and Peer Review
- AAAS on ID and Peer Review
- Judges findings at the M v A trial about a science conspiracy
- Fractogene idiot
- Fractogene guy goes crying to the ID people
- Randi's challenge ain't science
- Ain't science but so what?
- P values
- Why p values aren't the whole kettle of fish
- Hovind's challenge
- Hovind's challenge
- Seoul Survivors Podcast
- Bitterness in physics
Early quantum theory had two approaches: Matrix mechanics proposed by Heisenberg and wave mechanics developed by Schrödinger. Heisenberg found the physical ideas of Schrödinger's theory "disgusting," and Schrödinger was "discouraged and repelled" by lack of visualization in Heisenberg's method.
From http://mooni.fccj.org/~ethall/quantum/quant.htm
The more I think about the physical portion of Schrödinger's theory, the more repulsive I find it...What Schrödinger writes about the visualizability of his theory 'is probably not quite right,' in other words it's crap.
--Heisenberg, writing to Pauli, 1926
From http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08.htm
Quote used in show:
Why are stone flakes made by small-brained early hominins in Ethiopia 2.5 million years ago immediately recognizable as artifacts (Semaw 2000), while supposed >15,000-year-old "tools' from the Americas are indistinguishable from naturally fractured stone?
From PDF
Out of order fossils and artifacts:
May 03/08
Episode Eight: The Free Energy Conspiracy
Is there a massive conspiracy to suppress too-cheap-to-meter energy?
- Wiki's history of perpetual motion
- Apple's stock performance
- Wiki on Starlite
- More information about Starlite
- More information about Starlite
- More information about Starlite
- Starlite's official page
- Wiki on thermodynamics
- No free energy from magnets
- Why a 200 mpg engine isn't easy to achieve
- Straight Dope on the 200 mpg car engine
- Wiki on using oil with a diesel engine
- Diesel and his death
- Diesel on his vision for biodiesel
- Wiki on Cold Fusion
- Wiki on Muon-catalyzed fusion
- Wiki on Steven E Jones
- Buckyball Carbon
- Did GM destroy LA's public transit?
- Steorn's web site - Check out the press release section
- Wiki on Steorn
- Steorn's epic, epic failure
- A fan blog for Steorn
- Troy Reed and his magnet motor
- Wiki on Dennis Weaver
- Hutchinson's rather sad attempt at fooling us with a Penn & Teller trick
- Wiki on Hutchinson
Jul 31/08
Episode Nine: The HIV Conspiracy
HIV does not cause AIDS? HIV does cause AIDS but it's a bio weapon? HIV does not exist? WTF is wrong with these people?
Oct 27/08
Episode Ten: Canadian Conspiracies
Conspiracy theories in Canada. The Avro Arrow conspiracy and the planned destruction of Canada.
- About the Avro Arrow
- About the Avro Arrow
- Conspiracy about the Arrow
- Avro engineers and their contributions at NASA
- Sexy Saab jet fighter
- Swedish Blond Wood Furniture
- Swedish blondes
- CF100
- Avro Jetliner
- Dag Hammarskjöld
- The Planned Destruction of Canada
- The real plan to dam and divert water
- The Social Credit Party of Canada
- Pilgrims of Saint Michael, behind the Michael Journal and Social Credit
- Mind Control and Mila Mulroney
- Mila Mulroney
- Legal opinion on the ability for governments to bar water sales
- 10th Mountain Division really not doing a lot of mountain warfare training
Feb 1/09
Holocaust Denial: Guest Jennifer Booker
Young of the Seoul Podcast
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In an effort to keep Conspiracy Skeptic going and turning out shows on a more regular basis, I'm creating a new format called "Conspiracy Skeptic Unplugged" (or more accurately "unscripted"). I will interview a skeptical podcaster or blogger. I'm borrowing an idea from the now defunct Reason Driven podcast. The RDP would get a guest to read a chapter from a book called "The Reason Driven Life" and then talk about it. In Conspiracy Skeptic Unplugged my plan is to get a skeptical podcaster/blogger to come up with his/her favorite conspiracy, research it for a week or two, and then have the skeptic on my podcast to discuss the conspiracy.
My former Seoul Survivors podcast cohost Jennifer Booker Young was kind enough to help me do a beta edition to test out the format. The sound quality is pretty crappy on my end. Meh. Still trying to figure out audio on Vista and Skype. Hopefully the Grand Opening podcast with Brian Thompson of Amateur Scientist will have better sound (I bought a USB mike for that one).
Anyway, this is a long winded way to say sorry about the crap quality and things will get better. I hope you'll all hang in there with me.
Feb 10/09
The Illuminati: Guest Brian Thompson of Amateur Scientist Podcast
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Still working on the sound quality. I have my mike up a wee bit too high and you can hear my sniffling.
- Amateur Scientist Podcast
- The Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and The Illuminati
- Illuminati from Steve Jackson Games
- Slapchop (opens loud, irritating video/audio)
- Skepchick: Vince and Scientology
- William B Davis interview
- E Clampus Vitus - an interesting reaction to the anti-European immigration societies that sprung up the early 19th century.
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy
- North American Superhighway
- The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- Satanic Breeders and Other Satanic Scares of the 1980s
- Shape shifting space lizards
Mar 10/09
2012 and Planet X: Guest Stuart Robbins of Exposing PseudoAstronomy
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Stuart is a young, gifted astronomy grad student who takes on creationism and pseudoscience in his blog. In this episode, Stuart discusses some of the attempts by pseudoscientists to explain why the universe is going to try and kill us on December 21, 2012 and why that is so much pure crap.
- Exposing PseudoAstronomy on Planet X and 2012
- Alex and his psychic dogs
- The Pontiac Firefly
- Dogma Free America
- Questions Koreans tend to ask
- The Horizon Project
- Andy Lloyd and the Dark Star
- Pole shift claim
- The "consequences" of a magnetic pole shift
ZachZechuZacoorZecharia Sitchin- And just don't take Stu's word for it... more skepticism
- Stuart's personal site
Apr 5/09
The Vaccine Conspiracy: Guest Michael
Goudeau of the Penn Radio Show
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Michael Goudeau stops in to talk about vaccine hysteria, autism, his possible appearance at TAM 7, Penn and Teller's Bullshit, how you (or your boss) can actually hire him to entertain your corporate troops, the possible return of the Penn Jillette Radio Show, and a whole lot more.
- Vegas Comedy Juggler Michael Goudeau
- Jenny McCarthy insanity
- Andrew Wakefield insanity
- Andrew Wakefield: allegations of fraud
- David Kirby: insantiy
- Leading causes of death today
- Leading causes of death at the start of the 20th century
- Dr. Paul Offit: sanity
- The vaccine omnibus trial: judges' sane rulings
- The vaccine omnibus trial: crazed interpretations
- Senseo Single-Serve Coffeemaker
May 18/09
Roswell: Guest Brett Spurr
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Brett Spurr is cofounder of The Long Run blog, where skepticism and rational exuberance meet finance.
- The Long Run Blog
- Skeptoid on Roswell
- Econ Talk Podcast
- Project Mogul
- More on Project Mogul
- Airforce on Roswell
- Skeptical Inquirer on Project Mogul
- US bomber overflights of the USSR before U2 spy planes and satellites
- Christians at the Air Force Academy
- Penthouse Hoaxed
- Ernst Zundel's Flying Saucers
Jul 08/09
Moon Hoax and Stuart Robbins Revisited
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Stuart Robbins who talked about 2012 on Unplugged Episode 2 is back to talk about the Moon Landing Hoax in the run up to the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the current LRO mission. And yes I know I pronounce Hare Krishna wrong :)
- Exposing Pseudo Astronomy by Stuart Robbins
- Where Stuart explains anomaly hunting
- Stuart's coup
- Hare Krishna site with the WTF moment
- Hare Krishna site with the Krishnas who simply hand wave away evidence
- LRO Mission
- Franglais
- Karl in the BBC
- Fiske Planetarium
- Fisk on the Pegasus
- An imperfect Apollo shot
- Space Pen Urban Legend
- HIV Image
- Neal Adams and his hollow planet "theory"
- Texas monkeying with Astronomy in public education
- The podcast is played out by a Korean band called Big Bang and their song "Lies"
Jul 21/09
Abbie Smith HIV Researcher
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Abbie Smith is a grad student at the University of Oklahoma studying HIV. She has a popular blog called ERV (ie endogenous retro virus). Smith takes on creationists, the Disco'tute's head honchos, the top HIV deniers, all the while trying to find a way to keep HIV from killing babies. All that from a person who doesn't own more than 3 small kitchen appliances. Naturally, she stops in to chat with the Conspiracy Skeptic about HIV denial.
- Abbie and PZ Myers
- Abbie should not be confused with Abbie Hoffman.
- Abbie's old blog
- Japanese scientist who thinks you can change the structure of water if you say nurturing things to it
- Oh Lenny
- Abbie will give you a cool blog for free, earning under 20K a year. Lenny will sell you $188 tuning forks or a $1300 water filter
- Abbie takes on Behe
- Abbie debates Lenny
- Lenny accuses Duesberg of all kinds of nasty stuff
- Lenny's entirely bizarre indictment of Duesberg
- Abbie vs Dembski I
- Abbie vs Dembski II
- Abbie vs Dembski III
- Abbie vs Dembski IV
- Abbie vs Dembski V
- Abbie vs Dembski VI
- One of those crazy HIV photos that aren't supposed to exist
- More HIV images that supposedly don't exist
Aug 20/09
Denver Airport Conspiracy: Guest Rich
Orman of Dogma Free America
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Rich Orman from the Dogma Free America podcast stops in to talk about one of the greatest high kookin' conspiracy theories ever: the new Denver airport is Reptoid Base Alpha.
- Dogma Free America
- Rich's Twitter feed
- A good skeptical video treatment of the DIA conspiracy
- The demon horse
- They killed Fritz
- Another ummm interpretation of the murals
- Alex Christopher radio interview
- Philip Schneider: Government Secrets Revealed
- Peacekeeper Missile note talk about dense pack and the rail garrison system
- MX missile rail garrison concept
- Dense Pack concept
- A rail tunnel video under the DIA nothing could be more boring than this video or so they want you to believe
- Christians still promoting the missing day idiocy
- Amtrak Wars
- V
- Possible first TV appearance of the greys
- The Cultural Background of UFO Abduction Reports
- Watch the Outer Limits ep here. This grey alien appeared a couple weeks before Betty and Barney Hill first reported them.
- Amateur Scientist podcast interview with William B Davis
Aug 30/09
White Salamander Letter: Guest Charles
Morrison of Irreligiosophy podcast
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Charles Morrison stops in to talk about a conspiracy involving the Mormon church.
- Irreligiosophy
- The Thin Red Line(Correction: Clint Eastwood is not in this movie. Director Terrence Malick seems to come out with a new film every 15 years.)
- Adam-God theory
- Mormon Afterlife and Before Life
- White Salamander Letter
- Mark Hofmann
- More on Mark
- Still more on Mark
- Image of Hofmann and Spencer W. Kimball examining the Anthon document - Hmmmm note a person named Marion G. Romney is in that photo. Romney. Hmmm!
- Mormonism and Battlestar Galactica
- Firing Squad Execution in Utah
- Freemasonry and LDS
- Mountain Meadows Massacre
- Hitler Diaries
- Mussolini Diaries (correction I said this hoax took place 5 years before the Hitler Diaries. Try 3 decades (1957)).
- South Park ep on Mormonism
- Alleged Temple ritual
- More temple ritual stuff
- How to avoid pulling your Spencer W. Kimball (In case you were at all curious about how to break your nasty habit of self pleasuring yourself)
- When not helping 19th century prophets translate Reformed Egyptian, salamanders can be found on the Elemental Plane of Fire and are known to be Lawful Evil.
- Exit music is by White Snake. A snake is almost a salamander. Right?
Sep 25/09
Gold standards, trade deficits, and China
Brett Spurr of The Long Run Blog
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Brett Spurr returns to shoot the breeze about some economic ideas held tightly by conspiracy types: can/would China wipe out the economy tomorrow by dumping dollars? Is the gold standard the only real form of money? When we import goods, do foreign countries just make that money disappear?
- The Long Run Blog
- Shipping dollars is bad? - from the Penn and Teller message board
- Minimum Wage Debate I
- Minimum Wage Debate II
- Minimum Wage Post Game Show
- Karl on The Paracast
- My follow up to the "best cases" presented to me - in short, the way they were described didn't at all match what the primary sources claimed occurred. David's version sounded compelling if you ignore the actual facts.
- How the money comes back - we buy cars from Korea, Koreans buy education from us
Oct 05/09
JFK Assassination with Nigel
St. Whitehall of Skeptical Review
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Nigel St. Whitehall (a pseudonym) is a mild mannered lawyer from Hershey, PA, creator of the Skeptical Review blog, and a knowledgeable skeptic of claims that Oswald did not act alone.
- The Skeptical Review
- Log Rolling
- PZ threatened by a Canadian loon
- One of the first 9/11 conspiracies to emerge
- One third of Americans believe 9/11 was a conspiracy
- 76% don't think Oswald acted alone
- Oswald's wiki entry
- List of JFK conspiracies
- Dictabelt Evidence
- United States House Select Committee on Assassinations
- Can you make the shots? See people actually test the claims.
- The three tramps
- Woody Harrelson's dad actually shot and killed a cop
- Zapruder Film stabalized
- Why the driver did not shoot Kennedy
- Conspiracy nut William Cooper claimed Kennedy was done in by his driver with a shell fish poison gun
- Test of the single bullet trajectory part 1
- Test of the single bullet trajectory part 2
- Damage to WTC 7
- Give the Null Hypothesis a Chance (pdf)
- McKinley Assasination
- E Howard Hunt's claim
- A constellation killed Kennedy. We're through the looking glass here!
- Hershey, PA - Ostensibly the sweetest place on earth
- Puffin Watch
- Magic Bullet Blender
Nov 05/09
Princess Di Assassination with Hayley
Stevens of the Righteous Indignation Podcast
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Hayley Stevens is co-host of a funny and thought provoking skeptical podcast produced in the UK. In her spare time she's also a skeptical ghost hunter. On Conspiracy Skeptic we talk about the claims Princess Diana was murdered or even faked her own death.
- Righteous Indignation Podcast
- Where does Hayley live? (It's the ancestral home of Miles "Franglias" Kington.)
- Conspiracy Skeptic in the Skeptical Inquirer
- Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys fell off his yacht and drowned
- Natalie Wood fell off a yacht and drowned
- Newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell fell off his yacht and drowned
- French bombed Green Peace
- Chavs
- Origins of Alison Smith
- Nick Pope
- Warhammer 40,000
- War Hammer craziness
- Wiki on the "official" story
- Wiki on some of the conspiracies
- Final British Report on the death (opens in PDF)
- Wiki summary of the report
- Supposed owner of the Fiat supposedly involved in the crash
- Dodi Fayed
- Mohamed Al-Fayed
- Harrods
- Harrods bombed twice by the bloody IRA
- Royal Warrant - Product endorsements by the Royal Family
- List of products endorsed by the Queen, Prince Philip. and Prince Charles
- Harrods loses its Royal Warrants
- Before Dodi, Diana was dating Hasnat Khan - reportedly no one really opposed their relationship so the claim Diana and Dodi were murdered because he was Muslim appears inconsistent
- Prince Philip and his David Brent like racist gaffes (He famously warned a student in China he'd go slitty eyed if he stayed much longer.)
- Quincy
- Red Nose Day
- Guy Fawkes Night
- Heart Shaped Frying Pan
- Giant Jellyfish Crop Circle Predicts Solar Flares
- Karl on Righteous Indignation
Dec 07/09
Is The Family a Conspiracy? Discussion with
Listener Steven Cleghorn
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Steven is a long time listener of both my previous podcast Seoul Survivors and the Conspiracy Skeptic. He emailed me about this The Family organization many months before the story broke in podcast land. I wanted to have him on for a chat between two regular Joes about The Family, whether it's an example of a real conspiracy, and the implications. If you don't know much about The Family, I'd suggest first checking out D.J. Grothe's interview with the author himself before tackling my podcast.
- Point of Inquiry on The Family
- National Prayer Breakfast
- Korean women crazy for plastic surgery
- NBC on Doug Coe, including his "Hitler" video
- The Glenn Beck murdered a girl meme
- The Logan Act
- Suharto Atrocities
- Black Swan Theory
- French Minister Fights For Job After Boasts Of Sex With Young Boys
- The Beast of War - I thought this was the movie Steven was talking about
- Charlie Wilson's War - The movie Steven was talking about
- Hookah
- Steven's blog
- Steven's blog
Jan 13/10
Stuart "Astrostu" Robbins Update
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Stuart Robbins is back to update us on 2012, a supposed killer asteroid the Russians were yammering about, and a possible supernova neighbor.
BTW, think homeopathy is bunk? Check out the 1023 movement. http://www.1023.org.uk/
- Exposing Pseudo Astronomy by Stuart Robbins
- Bart Sibrel
- Oral Roberts dead
- Aphosis astroid
- Team Russia's plan to save the world
- Woo on Aphosis
- Orcus
- .25 KM = .155 miles = 250 long swords
- T Pyxidis
- Supernova Classification
- Dark Star: the movie
- Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos
- Parsec
- Big Rip
- Heat Death
- Stuart's chocoaltes 1
- Stuart's chocoaltes 2
- Buckeye chocolate
- Amateur Scientist Podcast's Astrologer Interview
- Global Consciousness Project
Jan 26/10
Stuart Robbins and the Strange
Case of Michael Horn/Billy Meier
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Stuart Robbins makes yet another appearance to talk about a claim that Billy Meier predicted Apophis.
- Exposing Pseudo Astronomy by Stuart Robbins
- No, a nearby supernova won't wipe us out
- Bussard ramjets
- Independent Investigations Group on Billy Meier
- Billy Meiers "alien" photos
- The Misquotes of Michael Horn
- Stuart on the Michael Horn's Coast to Coast claims
- Stuart writes more about Meier/Horn
- Been Using "Mescaloids" since 2002
- Michael Horn's Letter to SGU
- More Michael Horn on SGU
















