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.
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107 - Debate
106 - The Climate Paradox (rebroadcast)
105 - Optimism Bias
104 - Labels (rebroadcast)
103 - Desirability Bias
102 - WEIRD Science (rebroadcast)
101 - Naive Realism (rebroadcast)
100 - The Replication Crisis
099 - The Half Life of Facts
098 - Active Information Avoidance
097 - Scams (rebroadcast)
096 - Progress
095 - The Backfire Effect - Part Three
094 - The Backfire Effect - Part Two
093 - The Backfire Effect - Part One
091 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
090 - Reality - Donald Hoffman
089 - Connections - James Burke
088 - Moral Arguments
087 - Paranoia
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