The media skepticism space keeps producing fresh voices and long-running favorites. This list rounds up 23 of the best, including On the Media, You're Wrong About, and Conspirituality.
On the Media
On the Media is a weekly show that uses the media as a lens to understand our world. On the Media listeners say the show is an essential companion,...
You're Wrong About
Sarah is a journalist obsessed with the past. Every week she reconsiders a person or event that's been miscast in the public imagination.
Conspirituality
Dismantling New Age cults, wellness grifters, and conspiracy-mad yogis. At best, the conspirituality movement attacks public health efforts in time...
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies an...
Skeptoid
The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, con...
Blocked and Reported
Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-con...
The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moyn...
Skeptics with a K
Skeptics with a K is the podcast for science, reason and critical thinking from the Merseyside Skeptics Society. Each episode features Mike Hall, M...
Knowledge Fight
Each episode, Dan and Jordan take a look at some clips from that day's Alex Jones Show and struggle to make sense of what they find.
The Reason Roundtable
Every Monday, the libertarian editors of the magazine of “Free Minds and Free Markets”—Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter ...
Decoding the Gurus
An exiled Northern Irish anthropologist and a hitchhiking Australian psychologist take a close look at the contemporary crop of 'secular gurus', ic...
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Citations Needed
Citations Needed is a podcast about the intersection of media, PR, and power, hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke Greiff cover the latest news, politics, and pop culture with a focus on atheism and religion. This is the official...
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Media Skepticism
The Skeptic Podcast
The official podcast of The Skeptic, the UK's longest-running publication offering skeptical analysis of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and claim...
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Media Skepticism
The Official Project Censored Show
We are Project Censored and after 40 years of creating an annual book showcasing media censorship we are bringing the fight to your ears and eyes. ...
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Media Skepticism
News Over Noise
If you find yourself avoiding the news, you’re not alone. But what’s turning you off is likely not the news itself—it’s the noise surrounding it. N...
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Media Skepticism
Is that a fact?
"Is that a fact?" is produced by the non-partisan national education non-profit the News Literacy Project. It seeks to inform listeners about news ...
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Media Skepticism
The Arrogant Independent
They say silence is safe — but safe never changed anything. The Arrogant Independent is a movement of thinkers, skeptics, and truth-seekers breakin...
Project Censored
Mickey Huff is co-host of the Project Censored Show with former Project Censored director Dr. Peter Phillips. It airs on the progressiveradionetwor...
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Media Skepticism
The Poynter Report Podcast
You have questions about the media. We have answers. The Poynter Institute, the worldwide leader in supporting journalism, truth and democracy, ope...
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Media Skepticism
The Ministry of Media
The media shapes what you think, this podcast shows you how. The Ministry of Media exposes the lies, spin, and manipulation behind today’s news and...
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Media Skepticism
Minds Over Media
Media literacy is the key to nurturing informed, discerning, and empowered students. Our podcast is your resource to navigate this dynamic field, p...
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Media Skepticism
How this list is built
Shows are selected from PodSEO topic associations and matched AI recommendations. They are ordered by their average PodSEO score over records dated since seven days ago, with ties ordered by show name. The score combines podcast-platform search visibility, editorial placements, and chart performance, with adjustments for Apple listing status. AI recommendations help identify candidates; their frequency does not determine the order. Each list includes up to 100 shows with an Apple Podcasts ID and updates when regenerated.
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