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Shermer and Gold discuss: diversity, equity, and inclusion in the media \\u2022 social justice movements and their motivations \\u2022 bias in STEM fields \\u2022 why people believe weird things \\u2022 exorcisms \\u2022 UFOs \\u2022 faith healers \\u2022 Derren Brown and how magic works on minds \\u2022 hypnosis \\u2022 sex and where to have an affair \\u2022 Ashley Madison \\u2022 female/male differences in sexual preferences and choices \\u2022 non-offending pedophiles in Berlin \\u2022 the curious case of Jimmy Seville: why didn\\u2019t anyone notice his pedophilia?

Andrew Gold is a British journalist whose podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold investigates belief, cults and extreme ideologies. He speaks five languages, has lived in six countries and has made award-winning documentaries around the world for the BBC and HBO about fringe topics, from exorcism and UFOs to abortion and porn stars, and even more controversial terrain, such as his two years investigating pedophiles. On his podcast he has interviewed Richard Dawkins, Amanda Knox, John McWhorter, Gad Saad, Peter Boghossian, Robbie Williams and that Shermer guy\\u2026as well as several psychopaths, murderers, cult defectors and a guy who had to eat his friends after a plane crash. The reason he started his podcast is because the UK TV producers who work with the BBC kept insisting that he no longer be visible on-screen in his films because, he was told, they needed \\u201ca minority.\\u201d

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