The Conspiracy Skeptic

Dr. David D. Perlmutter and Julie Brannan return again to talk about Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day movie. Spoilers ahead!

Dr. David D. Perlmutter and Julie Brannan return to lend their insights into the 2025 conspiracy film Bugonia. This movie has so many references to modern day conspiracy culture, it takes the three of us to unpack!

Dr. David D. Perlmutter gets promoted to the role of acting co-host and Julie Brannan joins us to talk about Apple TV's Pluribus and its more interesting conspiracy and conspiracy adjacent aspects.

My favorite professor of Communications Dr. David D. Perlmutter returns to expand on his idea of low effort conspiracy culture and its infiltration into almost all aspects of our lives with the aid of AI!

Monster Talk's Karen Stollznow returns to talk about her latest book Bitch: The Journey of a Word. How did a word for a female dog come to have such power in North American society?

Gordon Bonnet is an author and skeptical blogger at his Skeptophilia blog. He wrote a couple intersting posts a few years ago about "guru" Carlos Castaneda. He comes on this podcast to talk about his odd and very profitable hoax.

Jerry Drake hat tricks it with a third time on to talk about his new book Hazel was a Good Girl: Solving the Murder that Inspired Twin Peaks. We explore the politics, society, and fashions of the time that led up to her murder and the conspiracy that ensured her killer was never brought to justice.

Your humble podcast host and author is interviewed by regular guest Dr. David D. Perlmutter about the process in creating his Conspiracy Skeptic's Book of Lists.

Your humble podcast host and author is interviewed by regular guest Dr. David D. Perlmutter about the process in creating his Skeptic's Book of Lists series.

Matt Crowley made a big name for himself when he debunked the claims some Bigfoot casts had dermal ridges. He's on Conspiracy Skeptic to talk about that work and ruminate on why anyone would want to cover up the existence of Bigfoot.

Dr. Perlmutter and I review some of the key conspiracies that hit the net and airwaves in 2024 and what it says about where society is heading. Strap in.

I read from a Toronto Sun artcile I wrote back in January 2000 about Dec 31, 1999 and the events that did not follow.

Mega friend of the Monster Talk show comes on my podcast to talk about Graham Hancock and Ancient Apocalypse. Are archaeologist really scratching their heads wondering how civilizations emerged separately? No. Not at all.

Kyle Polich of the Data Skeptic Podcast comes on to talk about the so-called Dead Internet Theory. Is Social Media AI serving up content for AI bots and are humans are now out of the equation?

Journalist Carolyn Shuck returns to talk about Max Azzarello, the guy who lit himself on fire outside the Trump trial. Is the economy truly a giant Ponzi scheme like he claimed in his manifesto claims?

Dr. David D. Perlmutter, a professor of Media and Communication at Texas Tech, returns for a breaking emergency episode about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and how conspiracy theories are literally playing themselves out, on both sides, right before our eyes. The title might be a little exaggerated but that's the way to get ears and eyeballs! Amiright?

New England author Eric Bickernicks is back with a sequel to his 2019 novel High Strangeness. It's naturally called Higher Strangeness. His first novel is stil a free Kindle download but do please consider buying this one.

Dr. Karen Stollznow comes on to discuss her new book Missed Conceptions. It's a book that looks at Karen's own journey to have a child as well as how history has treated women who are unable to have children. Missed Conceptions is a frank and honest work that anyone who is considering having a child should read.

Dr. Perlmutter and I review some of the key conspiracies that hit the net and airwaves this year and what it says about where society is heading.

If that voice sounds familiar it is because Darren McKee is the regular intro voice of Canada's long running and well regarded Reality Check podcast. When he's not podcasting, he is a policy advisor in Ottawa. Darren has recently published a very timely book on AI called Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World (US Amazon link). We talk about his bo...

Continuing in our Canadian trilogy, Antoine Delbast is a long time listener who comes on to talk about being secular celebrant who can marry people in Quebec 100 percent legal like. He talks about his journey from growing up in a secular French Canadian household to his life as a youthful believer in UFOs to his life as a skeptic.

Jeff Dupuis is a Canadian author, based in Toronto, who has written a series of mystery books called Creature X. His books (Roanoke Ridge, Lake Cresent, and Umboi Island) are not just whodunit novels but weave in cryptids and skepticism! He comes on the podcast to talk about his skeptical approach to writing and researching cryptids. Apologies: Jeff's family also comes from my hometown of Windsor...

It's finally show 100! Yeah. My very first official guest was Brian Thompson. Back then he was host of the Amateur Scientist podcast. Now he's host of the very funny, very meta Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald's. Brian comes on to talk about what he's been up to the last 14 years, the origins of his podcast, and how it mocks, among other things, conspiratorial thinking.

Cian Gill hosts an excellent podcast called Wide Atlantic Weird. It's skepticism meets Forteanism. Cian covers a wide range of topics but some of his best are when he brings on his brother Dr. Dónal Gill to talk about pro wrestling. No. Seriously. They come on my show to talk about one of the greatest pro westing conspiracies ever: the legendary Montreal screwjob.

Dr. David D. Perlmutter, a professor of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University, returns to talk about the the similarities between the true crime genre and conspiracy thinking.