Immigration, or more specifically immigration into the United States.

Is it helpful? Is it harmful?

Some say it's a flood of criminals and rapists and terrorists flowing northward over our southern border with Mexico,

sucking up our social services and paying no taxes in return.

Others look at the data and the science and come up with a very different conclusion,

which is true.

Well, we're going to find out next on Skeptoid.

My name is Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini.

Harry Houdini could make elephants disappear, walk through walls and escape the Chinese water torture cell, but he was also on a mission against mediums.

I have never seen one genuine medium.

Join me, Tim Harford, for a cautionary tales trilogy on the world's most famous magician.

It takes a flim flammer to catch a flammer.

Houdini wanted the world to see reason in an age of spiritualism.

He went undercover to seances, exposed fakes and charlatans,

and even tried to convince Washington lawmakers to ban mediums for good,

a campaign that cost him friends and made him many enemies.

They're going to kill me.

Listen to cautionary tales wherever you get your podcasts.

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

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