Why You're Wrong

The facts and fictions behind fluoridated water: what it is, what it does, and why you should or shouldn't be worried about it.

Not every cost/benefit relationship is a linear one, so knowing the point of diminishing returns prevents getting frustrated or wasting your time, money and effort.

Looking back at our predictions from last year, counting the hits and forgetting the misses just like any good psychic. Also, making equally as accurate predictions for 2013!

Interviews from Eschaton 2012. Featuring members of the Ottawa Skeptics and The Reality Check, Allan Daoust, Heina Dadabhoy, Ian Cromwell, and PZ Myers.

The news media and public perception can makes some things seem scarier than they actually are. This week we look at violence statistics for vacationers in foreign countries compared to back home, and why the reporting over an 8 point IQ drop from smoking pot is a misrepresentation and not terribly worrying.

Part 2 - Questions and answers from and for you, dear listener.

Questions and answers from and for you, dear listener.

How people misinterpret scales: SPF, earthquakes, pH, MPG, and weight.

Cancer myths and misconceptions: cures, preventions, treatments, statistics and charities.

Giving you 51 weeks of prep time for next Halloween, we look at ghosts, hauntings, and halloween safety myths.

More proof that nothing in life is free: 419 scams, pyramid schemes, multi level marketing, and recycling.

13 reasons to doubt evolution as provided by BestBibleScience.org, and 13 reasons not to doubt evolution as provided by yours truly. Misunderstandings, misinterpretations and downright falsehoods.

Getting even tougher on crime by looking at the statistics behind more aspects of police investigations and trials: criminal behavioural profiling as made famous by The Silence of the Lambs and Criminal Minds, and whether or not CSI has had an effect on how juries perceive forensic evidence.

Getting tough on crime is a popular political platform, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Looking at statistics behind the deterrent effects of capital punishment, mandatory minimum sentences, and the broken window idea of preventative policing shows that in the world of crime and punishment, sometimes less is more.

Like our previous episode on self-professed experts who aren't what they seem, this episode looks at audiophiles and coffee snobs and puts some popular beliefs to the challenge of the double blind test. As well, we clarify the difference between climatologists and meteorologists and why being an expert on some weather doesn't make you an expert on ALL weather.