Beehive Skeptics

Welcome to the rebranding! Kirsten and Shane talk about fears around the "Medical Industrial Complex" and around the FDA.

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.

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.

Shane talks about his experience at PhenomeCon with Sue and Joe.

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)

Kirsten and our special guest Braden and Carley Rawlings discuss She-Hulk and the effect misogyny had in its bad reviews.

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

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

In this episode, Shane talks about his exploits in challenging people from the telekinesis groups to prove their claims.

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.

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.

Kirsten and Shane talk about the Placebo effect.

In this episode Kirsten and Shane give you a brief overview of Homeopathy.

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!

Kirsten and Shane talk about vaccines, the myths, the conspiracies, and their safety.

Kirsten gets her swifty on! Talking about the media outrage and conspiracy theories around Taylor Swift.

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

Kirsten and Shane go over the logical fallacies in a Critical Thinking crash course! Check out School of Thought here: https://www.schoolofthought.org/

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

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

Kirsten and Shane look into Alkaline water. It's everywhere now! Does it help? Is it actually Alkaline? Is it worth the extra money?

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

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...

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.

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/

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!

Kirsten explains feminism. Shane talks about misogamy in skepticism.

Happy Halloween! Kirsten and Shane talk about Satanic Panic.

Kirsten and Shane discuss UAP's and the recent UAP hearings.

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.

In our first episode Shane updates us on Beehive Skeptic's first ever challenge!