266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood

266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood

We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project Alpha, a con job and a publicity stunt, meant to improve scientific rigor and methodology when it comes to studying the possibility of the existence of psychic phenomena.

Links:

Brian's Website

Brian's Twitter

New Yorker Article about Spiritualism

The World's Greatest Con

How Minds Change

David McRaney’s Twitter

YANSS Twitter

Show Notes

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