Explore every episode of the podcast Nothing To Fear
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| Episode 27: Good Vibrations | 15 Aug 2024 | 01:02:42 | |
Notice: We are going to move from biweekly episodes to once a month episodes to allow for scheduling issues. In this episode Kirsten and Shane talk about Vibrations, it's use in energy healing, and Sound Healing. News Item: Water on Mars! https://www.reuters.com/science/martian-subsurface-harbours-oceans-life-giving-liquid-water-2024-08-13/ Healing Frequencies of the Human Body: Healing Frequencies of the Human Body: Full List and Benefits (mindisthemaster.com) | |||
| Episode 26: The Loud Minority | 01 Aug 2024 | 01:02:47 | |
Kirsten and our special guest Braden and Carley Rawlings discuss She-Hulk and the effect misogyny had in its bad reviews.
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| Episode 17: Vaccines... AAAHHH! | 28 Mar 2024 | 01:10:45 | |
Kirsten and Shane talk about vaccines, the myths, the conspiracies, and their safety. | |||
| Episode 16: Taylor Swift Conspiracies | 14 Mar 2024 | 01:12:35 | |
Kirsten gets her swifty on! Talking about the media outrage and conspiracy theories around Taylor Swift. | |||
| Episode 15: Personal Biases | 29 Feb 2024 | 00:49:39 | |
Part two of our Critical Thinking series, Kirsten and Shane give you an overview of your personal biases. Check out School of Thought for more critical thinking resources: www.schoolofthought.org | |||
| Episode 14: Logical Fallacies | 15 Feb 2024 | 01:03:20 | |
Kirsten and Shane go over the logical fallacies in a Critical Thinking crash course! Check out School of Thought here: https://www.schoolofthought.org/ | |||
| Episode 13: How'd the psychics do in 2023? | 01 Feb 2024 | 01:39:50 | |
In this episode Kirsten and Shane give an update on 2023 psychic readings, and we provide all the predictions we've found and some of our own for 2024! Help us out by updating the tracker! Utah Psychic Prediction Tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16uwQKRX-UpzXFbdCicSDVZdnSUpiS1zEmZsph43guQU/edit?usp=sharing | |||
| Episode 12: Gender Affirming care and Trans Rights | 18 Jan 2024 | 01:54:55 | |
In this episode we interview a special guest Amara, A local trans woman. Kirsten reviews "Lost in Trans Nation" by Miriam Grossman. And Shane goes over the science of Gender Affirming Care. The science is extensive and dry, so we are posting our show notes in the following folder for listeners interested in reviewing our sources. Those notes are here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12bthN1C7eogQIlyTMjTLes5DdVjQiCue?usp=sharing | |||
| Episode 11: Alkaline Water. WTF? | 04 Jan 2024 | 01:00:26 | |
Kirsten and Shane look into Alkaline water. It's everywhere now! Does it help? Is it actually Alkaline? Is it worth the extra money? | |||
| Episode 10: Kirsten learns about James Randi, the Santa Clause of skepticism. | 21 Dec 2023 | 01:04:45 | |
Kirsten Learns about the life and exploits of James Randi! Learn along, or if you've heard of him, here's a bit of nostalgia! Your Homework: Uri Geller on Jonny Carson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqCJDpNnHNI Project Alpha Lookback with Michael Edwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9n7i9_kAFw James Randi and project Alpha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1S5CRcqJQo James Randi exposes Hydrick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CASghTzNhc Peter Popoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6BoV0AIPl4 Carlos Hoax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN54PDwNa6s James Randi on homeopathy TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Z7KeNCi7g | |||
| Episode 9: Psychic Stings and delicious food. Our interview with Susan Gerbic and Mark Edward! | 07 Dec 2023 | 01:17:48 | |
Kirsten and Shane are still at CSICon 2023 in Vegas Baby! We got to sit down and talk with Susan Gerbic and Mark Edward about their lucrative career in busting hot reading psychics! We never do find out exactly why they name their projects after food though... | |||
| Episode 8: Interview with confirmed "Ghost" (air quotes), Kenny Biddle! | 23 Nov 2023 | 01:11:06 | |
Kirsten and Shane went to CsiCon 2023 in Las Vegas!
We interview Kenny Biddle, Chief Investigator with the Center for Inquiry.
Kenny tells us how he became a ghost.
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| Episode 25: The Reluctant Agnostic | 18 Jul 2024 | 01:15:43 | |
Kirsten talks about "The Reluctant Agnostic" by Loren Bauman. We talk about our experiences in the mormon church, and guest Carly and Braden Rawlings talk about their experiences. Braden will sing his song "Even The Devil Lets you Down". Check out his other songs on his YouTube channel! Braden Rawlings - YouTube Or on TikTok: Braden Rawlings (@bradenrawlings) | TikTok | |||
| Episode 7: Food... Noms... That good stuff... | 09 Nov 2023 | 01:17:03 | |
Kirsten and Shane talk generally about some common food myths, specifically about food coloring, Organic/GMO foods, and aspartame myths. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogsscientificamericancomscience-sushi20110718mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/ | |||
| Episode 6: Psychic Investigation | 26 Oct 2023 | 01:33:29 | |
Our first guest Lauren Steadman! Lauren and Shane tell Kirsten about our psychic readings! Get involved by tracking our readings here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16uwQKRX-UpzXFbdCicSDVZdnSUpiS1zEmZsph43guQU/edit?usp=sharing You can also request access and update with your own readings with the goal of a public prediction tracker for local psychics! | |||
| Episode 4: Feminism in Skepticism | 19 Oct 2023 | 01:20:11 | |
Kirsten explains feminism. Shane talks about misogamy in skepticism. | |||
| Episode 5: Satanic Panic | 12 Oct 2023 | 01:11:07 | |
Happy Halloween! Kirsten and Shane talk about Satanic Panic. | |||
| Episode 3: UFO, I mean... UAP's! | 14 Sep 2023 | 00:39:38 | |
Kirsten and Shane discuss UAP's and the recent UAP hearings. | |||
| Episode 2: Energy Healing | 31 Aug 2023 | 00:56:17 | |
Kirsten and Shane discus the pseudoscience around "Energy Healing", Kirsten's life experiences, Shane's interaction with the founder of the Energy Healing Conference, and Energy healing study review. | |||
| Episode 1: Ouija Board Test | 18 Aug 2023 | 01:04:06 | |
In our first episode Shane updates us on Beehive Skeptic's first ever challenge! | |||
| Episode 24: Astrology test! | 04 Jul 2024 | 00:56:46 | |
Shane and Kirsten invite Beehive Skeptics group members Tim, Jose, and April to test the accuracy of "Astrology Birthday Book: A guide to your personality and destiny". News Item: A new look at Ötzi the Iceman’s DNA reveals new ancestry and other surprises: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-otzi-iceman-dna-ancestry-genome
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| Episode 23: Telekinesis | 20 Jun 2024 | 00:46:34 | |
In this episode, Shane talks about his exploits in challenging people from the telekinesis groups to prove their claims. | |||
| Episode 22: Internet Scams | 06 Jun 2024 | 00:53:30 | |
Kirsten and Shane talk about some new tactics in scams, and how AI is used in new ways to scam you out of your money and information. | |||
| Episode 21: Flat Earth | 23 May 2024 | 01:11:44 | |
Listen to Shane swear increasingly more with every beer while he and Kirsten talk with special guest Tim. We recount our flat earth test with Utah Flat Earth over the Great Salt Lake. | |||
| Episode 20: Placebo Effect | 09 May 2024 | 01:08:03 | |
Kirsten and Shane talk about the Placebo effect. | |||
| Episode 19: Shane Overdoses on Homeopathic Arsenic! | 25 Apr 2024 | 00:49:00 | |
In this episode Kirsten and Shane give you a brief overview of Homeopathy. | |||
| Episode 18: All-timers... I mean Alzheimer's! | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:53:01 | |
Kirsten decided to talk about Alzheimer's just to listen to Shane flounder trying to say it. But turns out there is a lot of miss-information about it! | |||
| Episode 31: The Medical Industrial Complex | 21 Apr 2025 | 01:02:57 | |
Welcome to the rebranding! Kirsten and Shane talk about fears around the "Medical Industrial Complex" and around the FDA. | |||
| Episode 30: Monsters and Cryptids with Daniel Reed | 23 Nov 2024 | 00:43:40 | |
Still at CSICon, Kirsten and Shane talk with Daniel Reed with the West Virginia Skeptics Society. We talk about all the cryptids that started in West Virginia. Had a video failure, so this episode will not show on YouTube. | |||
| Episode 29: CSICon 2024 and Kenny Biddle | 26 Oct 2024 | 00:52:00 | |
Beehive Skeptics shows up to CSICon 2024 in Las Vegas! We cornered Kenny Biddle for his second interview with us. Talking about ghost hunting and orgasmic energy. | |||
| Episode 28: PhenomeCon | 19 Sep 2024 | 01:07:12 | |
Shane talks about his experience at PhenomeCon with Sue and Joe. | |||