# Ray Hyman

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Episode 54: Halloween special on psychic mediums

WoooOOOOOoooOOOOOoooo, it’s that time of year again! It’s Halloween, so it’s time for The Studies Show hosts to face their fears, and read the research from one of the weirdest areas of science, parapsychology. This time it’s all about psychic mediums. What does it mean to test whether someone can …

Episode #032

From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine’s expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020. On this episode: If anal sex injuries really ar…

The Spark That Started CSICOP by Massimo Polidoro

Massimo Polidoro traces the cultural climate of the 1970s and the early encounters with figures like Uri Geller that convinced skeptics such as James Randi and Ray Hyman that organized scientific scrutiny was urgently needed. The article reveals how informal conversations and failed "psychic" resea…

#47 Project Stargate: Psychic Spies, Cold War Panic, and Why It Ended

For more than twenty years, the United States government funded a classified program that attempted to use psychic abilities for intelligence gathering. It was called Project Stargate. Beginning in the early 1970s at the height of the Cold War, the CIA and U.S. Army quietly invested millions of dol…

Organizing Doubt: Before CSICOP Had a Name by Massimo Polidoro

Massimo Polidoro recounts the early 1970s efforts by James Randi, Martin Gardner, and Ray Hyman to create what would eventually become CSICOP, revealing that the modern skeptical movement began not with a clear structure but with strategic debates over tone, mission, funding, and even its name. Lon…

Skeptics and failure be damned - Uri Geller part 2 of 3

A deep dive into the backlash that followed Uri Geller’s rise, exploring how psychologists, magicians, and skeptics—from David Marks to James Randi—challenged his claims, reshaped public debate, and helped launch the modern skeptical movement. In this episode, we follow the countercurrent that sur…

Revisiting Ep. 207 Documenting Our Veterans' Stories EP -266

Show Notes: This Memorial Day weekend, we're bringing back one of the most meaningful conversations ever shared on the Cool Grandpa Podcast: my interview with veteran storyteller and oral historian Bob Abbott. Bob has spent decades preserving the stories of World War II veterans — from Marin…

Project Stargate: The CIA's Psychic Spy Program—That Worked

The CIA handed a retired cop two coordinates off a map—no name, no country. He shut his eyes and read back the secret site's classified code name—from his couch. For 23 years the CIA really trained psychic spies—but when two scientists graded the work, did the data say remote viewing worked, or fa…

Remote Viewing in the Age of AI | Conspiracy Dad Podcast Ep. 35

What happens when one of the strangest chapters in the history of intelligence research collides with artificial intelligence? In Episode 35 of Conspiracy Dad, we dive into the bizarre history of remote viewing: the alleged ability to perceive information about distant or unseen targets without us…

Episode #032

From the pages of The Skeptic magazine, this is The Skeptic podcast, bringing you the best of the magazine's expert analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claims of the paranormal since its relaunch as online news source in September 2020. On this episode: If anal sex injuries really a…