From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020.On this episode: David Icke’s 2018 live tour sowed the seeds for his move back to the mainstream, by Michael Marshall from April 201810 persistent HIV myths we need to move past to break the stigma of the disease, by Alice Howarth from February 2021Technophobia: Facebook and computers cause cancer; typewriters apparently don’t, by Mark Williams from January 2011(35:59) 2019’s ‘The Mandela Effect’ is a stylish, shallow exploration of a rather silly conspiracy theory, by Mark Horne from April 2021Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk, or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic

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