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Zombies, aliens, Bigfoot, oh my!! We've covered - or rather uncovered - them all and more on Skeptic Check, our monthly look of critical thinking. And now we've collected enough strange encounters to assemble a sordid retrospective of sorts.
Sharpen your brain, it's Skeptic Check, Beast Of. But don't take our word for it!
Guests:

Phil Plait - Skeptic and keeper of Discover Magazine’s blog, badastronomy.com

Bruce Hood - Cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and author of The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs

Susan Jacoby - Author of The Age of American Unreason

Steve Silberman - Contributing editor, Wired Magazine, author of “The Placebo Problem” in the September 2009 issue

Mary Pope-Handy - Estate Agent, Silicon Valley and keeper of the website hauntedrealestate.com

Jim Underdown - Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, West – Los Angeles

Paul Offit - Pediatrician, Chief of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and author of Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure

Stephen Schneider - Climate scientist, Stanford University

Brendan Riley - Assistant professor of English, Columbia College, Chicago

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