The Conspiracy Skeptic

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.

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 the money we send them disappear and it never comes back?

Charles Morrison stops in to talk about a conspiracy involving the Mormon church.

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.

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.

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.

Brett Spurr of the Long Run Blog (a blog about skepticism and finance) talks about the supposed Roswell cover up.

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, and a whole lot more.

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 pseudo scientists to explain why the universe is going to try and kill us on December 21, 2012 and why that is so much pure crap.

Guest host Brian Thompson of the Amateur Scientist Podcast. Still working on the sound quality. I have my mike up a wee bit too high and you can hear my sniffling.

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. 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.

Conspiracy theories in Canada. The Avro Arrow conspiracy and the planned destruction of Canada.

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?

Is there a massive conspiracy to suppress too-cheap-to-meter energy?

Is there a Big Science conspiracy? Or is Expelled and Michael Cremo fulla crap?

Is the Federal Reserve system crooked? Comments on the flash film Money, Banking, and the Federal Reserve.

Is the Federal Reserve system crooked? Comments on the flash film Money is Debt.

The moon landing hoax. The Phil Plait/Joe Rogan debate revisited.

Alex Jones, Endgame, the New World Order, and North American Union.

The great cancer conspiracy.

Part II of the conspiracy primer.

Part I of the conspiracy primer.