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b'Are you skeptical?\\xa0Sure, you raise an eyebrow when some Nigerian prince asks for your bank numbers, or when a breakfast cereal claims that it will turn your kid into a professional athlete overnight.\\nBut what do you really know about the benefits of organic milk?\\xa0Or the power of whitening ingredients in your toothpaste?\\xa0How credible is what you read on Twitter?\\nToday, information overwhelms us, and the need to keep our skeptical wits about us has never been greater.\\xa0We follow Seth around as he faces the daily onslaught of hype and hokum.\\nIt\\u2019s Skeptic Check, our monthly look at critical thinking \\u2026 but don\\u2019t take our word for it!\\n Guests:\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Steven Novella\\xa0 \\u2013 Assistant professor of neurology at Yale University School of Medicine and host of the \\u201cSkeptic\\u2019s Guide to the Universe\\u201d podcast\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Guy P. Harrison \\u2013 journalist and author.\\xa0His latest book, Good Thinking:\\xa0What You Need to Know to be Smarter, Safer, Wealthier, and Wiser, will be in bookstores in October 2015.\\xa0\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Andrew Maynard \\u2013 Professor in the School for Innovation in Society, Arizona State University\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Peter Adams \\u2013 Senior vice president for educational programs with the News Literacy Project\\n\\n\\u2022\\xa0\\xa0Daniel Armistead \\u2013 Dentist, Palo Alto, California\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'