Hibernian Hokum: Irish Origins and the Stone of Destiny
In this new episode, I explore the various claims about the origins of the Irish people and a certain legendary magical stone, which requires debunking the pseudohistories of British Israelism. Check...
22 Sep 55min
The Atlantis Fantasy - Part Three: Location, Location, Location
In the last part of my series on belief in the historicity of Atlantis, I look at the problems with all the many places proposed as the actual location of Atlantis. Check out ...
8 Sep 1h 22min
The Atlantis Fantasy - Part Two: A Convenient Fiction
In part 2 of my series on belief in the historicity of Atlantis, I look at how the myth was kept alive through the ages because it conveniently served the arguments of philosophers and lent weight to ...
25 Aug 1h 4min
The Atlantis Fantasy - Part One: The Platonic Idea
This series explores belief in the long-lived myth of Atlantis. In this first part, I look at the origin of the story in Plato's Timaeus and Critias and the reasons scholars have long concluded it was...
11 Aug 54min
Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part Two: Manifestly False
In the conclusion of my look at the practice of mediumship, its origins and its fraudulence, I trace the evolution of Spiritualism into a new religion and profile its two greatest promoters and oppone...
28 Jul 1h 10min
Common Séance; A History of Spiritualism - Part One: The Fox Sisters, Rap Artists
In this new 2-part series, I look at the practice of mediumship, its origins and its fraudulence. In Part One, I talk examine the originators of 19th century Spiritualism, the Fox Sisters, from the st...
14 Jul 54min
The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part Two: Stunt Performers and Grifters
In part two of my series on the history of Flat Earth Theory, I talk about the devotees of Flat Earthism, who promote it through publicity stunts and enrich themselves off their fellow believers. Ch...
30 Jun 52min
The Shape of Things; An Intellectual History of Flat Earth Theory - Part One: Zetetic Astronomy
In part one of a new series on the history of Flat Earth Theory, I talk about ancient conceptions of the Earth's flatness, ancient proofs of its sphericity, and the 19th century resurgence of belief i...
16 Jun 51min
