Category Archives: The Reality Check Episodes

The Reality Check #58: Alternative Style Auctions + Interview with Tim Farley + Flamingo Colour Myth

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. This week Jon discusses new websites that do auctions a bid differently, Jon and Adam interview Tim Farley of whatstheharm.net at TAM7, and Darren explores the ‘myth’ that flamingos get … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #57: Free Will/Determinism + Interview with Evan Bernstein + Baby Booms/Blackouts

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. Apologies for the poor audio quality in this episode. Due to a mysterious technical problem during recording, the track had too much noise to remove cleanly, resulting in lots of … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #56: Umami/MSG + Ray Hyman Interview + Baldness Myth

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. Xander explains the origins of the 5th taste Umami and the safety of MSG, Jon interview Ray Hyman at TAM7, and Darren debunks the myth that baldness skips a generation. … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #55: Time Travel + Multitasking + Well Starseeing Myth

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. On this week’s show, Adam explores that plausibility of time travel and how they appear in movies/television, Darren takes to task multitasking, and Jon debunks the myth that you can … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #54: Jurassic Park + Consciousness + 21 Grams

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. Jon explores the science and fiction of the 1993 movie Jurassic Park, Xander gives a primer on Consciousness, and Darren talks about the claim that the soul weighs 21 grams. … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #53: Pet Domestication + Joe Nickell Interview + Monkey Descent Myth

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. Adam explains how pets like cats and dogs got domesticated and look soooo cute, we interview skeptical investigator Joe Nickell at TAM7, and Darren busts the myth that humans descended … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #52: Scifi vs UFO Reporting w/ David Clarke + Zombies! Study w/ Robert Smith?

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. This episode is a bit unusual. It consists of two interviews. The first is with Professor David Clarke about his recent discovery of a correlation between sci-fi film popularity and … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #51: What the Bleep Review + Richard Saunders Interview + Usa Myth

Subscribing here for free with iTunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. Darren review the pseudo-movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?”, Jon and Adam interview Richard Saunders at TAM 7, and Jon busts the myth that a town in Japan was … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #50: Spot Reduction + Aquatic Ape Theory Interview + Living Population Myth

Subscribing here for free with itunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. Darren examines whether or not working a spot on the body will make it lose fat faster, Jon interviews Jim Moore about the Aquatic Ape theory, and Adam tackles the … Continue reading

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The Reality Check #49: Homeopathy 101 + Harriet Hall Interview + Sex on the Mind Myth

Subscribing here for free with itunes Using this link in your browser, or other podcatching software. Adam explains homeopathy, we interview Harriet Hall (the Skepdoc), and Darren busts the myth that men think of sex every 7 seconds. Listen now: http://media.libsyn.com/media/therealitycheck/The_Reality_Check_Ep_49_-_2009-07-23.mp3 Download direct: mp3 file If you … Continue reading

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