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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187 - Bad Habits - Jud Brewer (rebroadcast)
186 - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb (rebroadcast)
185 - Masks
184 - The Blind Spots Between Us - Gleb Tsipursky
183 - Black Lives Matter
182 - The A/B Effect (rebroadcast)
181 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)
180 - Meltdown - Chris Clearfield
179 - The Memory Illusion - Julia Shaw
178 - Behind the Curve (rebroadcast)
177 - COVID - 19
176 - Socks and Crocs - Part Two
175 - Socks And Crocs - Part One
174 - Bad Advice - Paul Offit (rebroadcast)
173 - Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - Michele Gelfand
172 - Team Human - Douglas Rushkoff (rebroadcast)
171 - Partisan Brains
170 - Mark Sargent
169 - Art
168 - Not a Scientist (rebroadcast)
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