The Skeptic Zone

The Skeptic Zone

The Podcast from Australia for Science and Reason. Join Richard Saunders and the crew for interviews and reports from around the world.

Episodes

December 6, 2025 79 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:02:00
The "Why Smart Women Zone" Podcast - Part #1

LIVE from the Occidental Hotel in Sydney Australia, comes a combination of two of Aus...
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Richard Saunders

0:04:14
3i Atlas Update

As Comet 3i Atlas emerges from behind the sun, we take a look at the latest news from NASA that confirms the object...
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November 22, 2025 68 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:07:18
The Think Tank

Our international team spent time with Dr Siouxsie Wiles from New Zealand. Dr Siouxsie has been the victim of outra...
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November 15, 2025 70 mins
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Richard Saunders

0:06:04
I Think We Need to Think. With Susan Gerbic

An interview with Susan about her recent feature in major Australian newspapers talking...
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November 8, 2025 65 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:02:44
Woo Watch! With Kate Thomas

This week Kate is interviewed at Skeptics in the Pub by Maynard.

Kate Thomas on TikTok and Instagram
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November 1, 2025 63 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:06:12
Orgone not Gone!

Something that should've been confined to the trash bin of bad ideas a century ago is still skulking around our m...
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October 25, 2025 54 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:04:44
3i Atlas Update

As the interstellar comet streams through the inner solar system, we look at some of the claims about it being mad...
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October 18, 2025 65 mins
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Richard Saunders and Maynard

00:07:00
Auras

Is there really an invisible "energy field" of swirling colours surrounding all living things? What happens when...
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October 11, 2025 61 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:02:34
Woo Watch! With Kate Thomas

Wellness Patches

This week, pharmacist and skeptic Kate Thomas takes a look at the latest sticky heal...
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October 4, 2025 61 mins
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Richard Saunders. Also the winners of the Australian Skeptics Awards for 2025, live from Skepticon Melbourne with Tim Mendham.

00:09:44
Divination

We look ...
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September 27, 2025 64 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:04:56
You Can Count on Adrienne. With Adrienne Hill

This week Adrienne takes us to Portugal on a trip of discovery of the local supersti...
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September 20, 2025 60 mins
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Richard Saunders and Maynard

00:05:58
Woo Watch! With Kate Thomas

We interview Pharmacist Kate Thomas, a rising TikTok star from Sydney who fights medical m...
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September 13, 2025 61 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:03:00
Cryptozoology

We take a look into the history and likelihood of strange creatures roaming the earth, yet to be discovered by scien...
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September 5, 2025 53 mins
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Introduction
Richard Saunders and Tim Mendham

00:06:06
A Look into the Stars

We take a sceptical look at the claims and promises of the age old practice of Astrology. Ca...
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August 29, 2025 65 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:06:14
Comet 3I Atlas and TikTok Tales of Doom

As another interstellar visitor races through our solar system, we look at various predict...
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August 23, 2025 62 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:03:28
Alien Abductions?

We take a look at the history, implications and possibilities of aliens travelling across the Milky Way to not o...
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August 16, 2025 60 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:03:34
The World Without the Modern Skeptical Movement

We imagine what society would be like if James Randi and people like him never sta...
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August 9, 2025 65 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:02:50
Msynard's Spooky Action

Maynard heads to Sydney Skeptics in the Pub for a special screening of the remastered documentary "James R...
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August 2, 2025 65 mins
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Richard Saunders

00:04:08
Radical Thinking

Radical Thinking is a book about how you view the world. It's about the things that shape your thoughts, from wha...
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July 26, 2025 50 mins
 
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Richard Saunders

00:02:16
Dr Eugenie Scott - Scopes Monkey Trial 100th Anniversary - #2

We chat to the one and only Dr Eugenie Scott w...
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