The Conspiracy Skeptic

Proof Britney Spears fought with Strike Force Ajumma Commandos during the war of North Korean Aggression

Andrew Philips is a historian and works at a civil war museum. He keeps encountering this over blown claim that slaves and freed men willingly took up arms in defense of the confederacy and their way of life. This knowledge has been suppressed by a vast Yankie Conspiracy.

• American Civil War
• War of 1812
• Spanish-American War
• History of Arlington National Cemetery
• Marlboro Jones
• British in the Civil War
• 1983 Marine barrack bombing in Beirut
• Corps D'Afrique
• The South Was Right (book)
• Monster Talk on HP Lovecraft
• Black Confederates in the Civil War (pro)
• Black Confederate Participation (balanced)
• Black soldier on the Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery? Not so fast!
• Fairfax Museum

Smiling pope? More like the overbite pope.

Nigel St. Whitehall (and Lady St. Whitehall), master of the Skeptical Review Blog, returns with another quirky "historical footnote" conspiracy in the same vein as the HMS Invincible. This time it's the treacherous murder of Pope John Paul I, the last of the red hot Italian popes. Cornuto stronzo pimento! (Pointless chat haters: the last 20 minutes is just banter.)

• The Skeptical Review
• Pope John Paul I
• The Vatican's official site.
• NY Times on John Cornwell's book
• Murder at the Vatican
• The Scandals and Heresies of John Paul I
• Pope Paul VI Imposter!
• Crazy priest tries to stab John Paul II at Fatima
• Secret Pope Stabber
• David Yallop
• A Liar's Autobiography
• In God's Name
• Vatican Bank can't stay scandal free
• Paul Marcinkus
• Roberto Calvi
• Blackfriars Bridge
• Shortest-reigning popes
• Secrets of Fatima
• Fatima and anti-communists
• Fatima Crusader: The Russians are still coming!
• Ask a Canadian

Apparently there are no amateur astronomers below the equator

Stuart Robbins is now a newly minted Doctor. Herr Doctor Stuart Robbins returns to Conspiracy Skeptic to fill us in on more 2012 foolishness, Mars foolishness, Billy Meier woo woo, and more.

• Stuart's Pseudo Astronomy Podcast
• Moon Zoo
• Meier's non prediction of the Japanese earthquake!
• "and yet it moves!"

They can smell fear

Listener Jeff Syke outlines the religious right's claims about a homosexual agenda and differentiates it from an actual gay agenda.

• Jeff's Google Doc outline his research
• Wiki on the Homosexual Agenda
• George Rekers and his rent boy
• Onion confused parents in Ontario
• Onion article that might have confused Ontario parents

Jacob Jax and Penn Jillette juggling together at UNLV.

Jacob Jax is a young up 'n' coming magician/juggler in Vegas. He's a TAM veteran. Jacob stops in on The Conspiracy Skeptic podcast to talk about magic, how to get started in what seems like a secret organization, and we tell war stories about punching above our weight in Vegas.

• Jacob Jax doing coin magic (in the last second of the video just to the left you can see BJ Kramer, the guy who is famous for meeting Penn & Teller at the end of their show and telling them he left Judaism and he's never had bacon.)
• Randi makes my quarter disappear. Hands it back to me. Makes it vanish again. Finally Penn kindly returns my quarter.
• Article I mention Jacob
• The Magic Castle
• The thumb tip
• Freemont Street Experience
• Crazy Horse show at the MGM
• Mac King
• How to memorize a deck of cards
• TAM 9
• Simon Singh
• Massimo Pigliucci
• Riker's uniform
• Jacob Jax on Facebook - Add him!
• Conspiracy Skeptic at TAM 8

The real Necronomicon will teach you how to be a douche.

JoelWhy is the SGU board's nicest fan of Conspiracy Skeptic. He comes on Conspiracy Skeptic to talk about H.P. Lovecraft and how some people refuse to accept The Necronomicon is not a real book.

• Vonnegut Character: Khashdrahr Miasma
• Robert Price
• Robert Price on Monster Talk Podcast
• Shared World Fiction
• Just Day Olds April Fools Joke
• Alternative 3
• Simon Necronomicon
• Simon Necronomicon FAQ
• Correction: Anton Levay did not play Satan in Rosemary's Baby
• Bill Gates and the Illuminati Conspiracy
• Joan Brewer and her odd tales of Bill Gates and Microsoft
• Vampire Murders
• The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind The Legend

Blake Smith, the Georgia Guidestones, and a photo that could have been better cropped.

The Georgia Guidestones have been standing in a weird plot of land since the early 1980s. They've increasingly become an irritant to New World Order conspiracy nuts. Monster Talker Blake Smith is here to talk about his own visit to the Georgia Guidestones.

• Monster Talk
• The Death Panel
• Dove Hunting
• Charles Fort
• Fortean Times
• Google Maps view of Georgia Guidestones
• Wired on the Georgia Guidestones
• Skeptoid on the Georgia Guidestones
• Krystal Burgers
• World Population Limit
• Frienship Games
• The Burj Dubai Connection
• TAM 9
• Starship Troopers Uniforms
• Loren Coleman and Cryptomundo