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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247 - Narcissism (rebroadcast)
246 - Ideaflow - Jeremy Utley
245 - The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind - Tim Harford
244 - Quit - Annie Duke
243 - Psychological Tweetathon with Jay Van Bavel
242 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff
241 - The Status Game - Will Storr
240 - QAnon and Conspiracy Narratives (rebroadcast)
239 - You're Invited - Jon Levy
238 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade
237 - Reactance - Michele Belot
236 - How Minds Change
235 - Tough - Terry Crews
234 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford
233 - The Puzzler - A. J. Jacobs
232 - Think Again - Adam Grant
231 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton (rebroadcast)
230 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank
229 - What's Your Problem? - Jacob Goldstein
228 - The Power of Regret - Daniel H. Pink
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