Dog food producers notice that dogs aren't the ones buying the products.

Their owners are.

And they also notice that humans go in for all kinds of elite food fads.

Superfoods, organic, what have you.

So they shrewdly market their dog food to appeal to these upscale human buyers who figure that no

food is too good for their special doggy friend.

But it raises the question, are these alternative dog foods healthy for canines?

That's today on Skeptoid. My name is 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 flim 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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