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Podcast: Skeptics in the Pub Online Podcast
Episode: Snake Oil on the Shopping List? How Pseudoscience Ends Up in Your Shopping Cart - Dr Rebecca Wismeg Kammerlander
Description: From biodynamic veggies to detox cures, our supermarkets are full of products that are pure woo. One moment you’re picking up cold medicine, the next you’re eyeing a bottle of homeopathic sugar pearls. You finally decide to get started with a skin care routine, a moment later your money ends up in the pocket of an anthroposophical brand. And those carrots … are they just organic or are they grown in tune with moon cycles and fertilized with some magic concoction made of a shit-stuffed cow horns?
Let’s unpick why pseudoscience is so at home among ordinary goods li...