Zombies, aliens, Bigfoot, oh my!! We've covered - or rather uncovered - them all and more on Skeptic Check, our monthly look of critical thinking. And now we've collected enough strange encounters to assemble a sordid retrospective of sorts.\nSharpen your brain, it's Skeptic Check, Beast Of. But don't take our word for it!\nGuests:\n\n\nPhil Plait - Skeptic and keeper of Discover Magazine\u2019s blog, badastronomy.com\n\n\n\nBruce Hood - Cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and author of The Science of Superstition: How the Developing Brain Creates Supernatural Beliefs\n\n\n\nSusan Jacoby - Author of The Age of American Unreason\n\n\n\nSteve Silberman - Contributing editor, Wired Magazine, author of \u201cThe Placebo Problem\u201d in the September 2009 issue\n\n\nMary Pope-Handy - Estate Agent, Silicon Valley and keeper of the website hauntedrealestate.com\n\n\n\nJim Underdown - Executive Director, Center for Inquiry, West \u2013 Los Angeles\n\n\nPaul Offit - Pediatrician, Chief of Infectious Diseases at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, and author of Autism\u2019s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure\n\n\n\nStephen Schneider - Climate scientist, Stanford University\n\n\nBrendan Riley - Assistant professor of English, Columbia College, Chicago\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices