Mormon Mushroom Fragment Fiction

About this episode

The episode discusses various topics including Mormon interactions, mushroom sales in complementary medicine, and academic fraud.

In this episode of the Yeah… Nah! podcast, we start off with a short chat about Thomas Driver, followed by an extended amount of blathering from Mark, who fills us in on both his visiting Mormons and some emails the NZ Skeptics have been receiving recently asking if we can publish their articles on our website. Bronwyn has debunked one of Mark’s pet theories, the idea that there’s been an uptick in mushrooms being sold as complementary medicine recently because of companies who were planning to grow marijuana having to repurpose their equipment. And finally Katrina has found the curious case of a French academic who seems to have not only created a fake award to make himself look important, but also faked the existence of multiple organisations that are supposedly linked to the award. About this episode Articles we talk about: Medical Marijuana and Mushroom Mania My first Book of Mormon Stories Philology Fictionology Fragment 176–191: Poisoning AI Summaries? Newsletter issues these articles appear in: 2026-03-02

People in this episode

Host: Mark

Guests: Bronwyn, Katrina

Topics covered

• Mormonism
• mushrooms
• complementary medicine
• academic fraud
• skepticism

Keywords

• Mormon
• mushrooms
• complementary medicine
• academic fraud
• NZ Skeptics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NZ Skeptics

Books & works: Book of Mormon, Medical Marijuana and Mushroom Mania, Philology Fictionology Fragment 176–191: Poisoning AI Summaries?

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