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: * Andrew Tate's misogynistic BRUV political party is a joke we should take seriously [https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/02/andrew-tates-misogynistic-bruv-political-party-is-a-joke-we-should-take-seriously/] by Abi Kennedy from February 2025 * The Truth of Skinwalker Ranch… probably won’t shock you [https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/04/the-truth-of-skinwalker-ranch-probably-wont-shock-you/] by Nick Garratt from April 2025 * Perspectives on Peer Review [https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2020/11/four-perspectives-on-peer-review-why-it-goes-wrong-and-why-we-need-to-fix-it/] by Edzard Ernst from November 2020 * The Better Way conspiracy conference went all-in on the moral panic around trans people [https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/08/the-better-way-conspiracy-conference-went-all-in-on-the-moral-panic-around-trans-people/] by Aaron Rabinowitz from August 2023 Find more from The Skeptic at skeptic.org.uk [https://skeptic.org.uk/], or to support the show, take out a small voluntary donation at patreon.com/theskeptic [https://patreon.com/theskeptic]