Today on Skeptoid, we're going back to a few of the popular urban legends and conspiracy

theories we've covered on the show, and adding some juicy tidbits of extra information

that's come in since the episodes went live.

And also, we're going to wrap with a poignant plea that we can all use to improve communicating

rationality in an ever more irrational world.

All of that is coming up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

More on 5G and COVID masks.

As we do periodically here on Skeptoid, we're going to revisit some previously covered topics

to go over some additional information, which generally comes in the form of listener feedback.

As you know, a fundamental of the way science works is that it's a constantly iterating

process of accommodating new information to improve the current conclusions.

And we try to do exactly the same thing with Skeptoid episodes.

Today, we're going to cover some updates to a number of past shows, in particular,

two that are particularly timely.

Some historical details about mask mandates in pandemics like COVID-19, and also a response

to one very popular objection that a number of you raised after our episode on 5G cell

phone data networks.

We'll get started with an update to our recent episode about the long history that pandemics

and conspiracy theories share together.

How every pandemic throughout history has had some version of the conspiracy theories we're

seeing with COVID-19.

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