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Skeptical Inquirer Audio Edition brings the insightful articles from Skeptical Inquirer magazine directly to your ears. Covering topics in science, skepticism, and critical thinking, each episode features narrated versions of our most thought-provoking content.
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One Man's Midlife Crisis in a NatGeo Docuseries (opens the original)
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Brian Kerby reviews Limitless: Live Better Now. National Geographic Docuseries, 2025, arguing that the National Geographic docuseries is less a serious exploration of science than a celebrity's "midlife crisis" built around Chris Hemsworth's personal experiments with brain health, chronic pain, and risk-taking. Read this article and find accompanying references at: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2026/08/one-mans-midlife-crisis-in-a-natgeo-docuseries/ About the Author: Brian Kerby is producer and
Sounding the Alarm about Medical Misinformation (opens the original)
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Katie Suleta reviews Everyone Else Is Lying to You: How Our Medical Establishment Weaponized Doubt to Spread COVID, Normalize Quackery, and Undermine Public Health by Jonathan Howard. Redhawk Publications, 2025. Read this article and find accompanying references at: https://skepticalinquirer.org/2026/08/sounding-the-alarm-about-medical-misinformation/ About the Author: Katie Suleta is a public health researcher and science writer. Suleta is known for her work in countering medical misinformation
The Ghost in the iPhone (opens the original)
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Christopher B. Steiner traces the history of nineteenth-century "spirit photography," focusing on William H. Mumler's famous photograph of Mary Todd Lincoln with the supposed ghost of Abraham Lincoln. By having students recreate the image using an iPhone long-exposure app, Steiner demonstrates how photographic effects and digital technology can reproduce seemingly supernatural images, highlighting the continuity between Victorian photographic trickery and modern digital manipulation. Read this a
Selling Immune Tolerance as Disease (opens the original)
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Andrea Love argues that direct-to-consumer "food sensitivity" tests are a lucrative form of pseudoscience that misrepresents IgG antibodies—markers of exposure and immune tolerance—as evidence of disease. She explains how these unvalidated tests can lead to unnecessary dietary restrictions, health anxiety, and delayed medical care, and argues that the broader lesson is how wellness marketing can strip legitimate science of its context to create and sell solutions to problems consumers don't actu
Our AI Crisis Is Just a Symptom. It's Time to Fix the Root Cause (opens the original)
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Melanie Trecek-King argues that the current panic over generative AI is largely a symptom of a much older media literacy crisis, not the root problem itself. She calls for replacing outdated tools like the CRAAP Test and blanket restrictions on information with stronger habits of lateral reading, calibrated skepticism, and understanding how algorithm-driven feeds blur the lines between reliable information, misinformation, advertising, and entertainment. Read this article and find accompanying r
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