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A dangerous chemical known since ancient times has developed a bizarre health craze around it and many health gurus say everyone needs to consume this acid. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore its history, its dangers, and a government conspiracy to put it in our water supply.

Links for this episode:

• Sam Keane’s book The Disappearing Spoon
• Wikipedia on Hydroxylic Acid
• More from Wikipedia
• Planet Gliese 1214 b
• How It Rains on Other Planets
• Newly Discovered Planet Where It Rains Iron
• Torture by Hydroxylic Acid
• Carotenosis (Carrots/Orange Skin)
• Argyria (Silver/Blue Skin)
• WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (2013)
• Paracelsus
• Hydroxylic Acid Intoxication
• Hyponatremia
• Water Fluoridation Controversy
• Anti-Hydroxylic Acid Activist Group
• Beer Hall Putsch
• Most Disturbing Video Link

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People have believed in werewolves since time immemorial with tales of human beings transforming either physically or behaviorally. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore what we know of these accounts, where they come from, and whether there’s any truth to legends of lycanthropy.

Links for this episode:

• Ian Woodward’s book The Werewolf Delusion
• Baring-Gould & O’Donnell’s book Werewolves: The Definitive Guide: Werewolf History, Fiction, Mythology, Folklore, Legends, and Stories
• Kathleen McAuliffe’s book This Is Your Brain on Parasites
• Thomas Aquinas’s book On Evil
• Werewolf (Wikipedia)
• Greek vase showing the Trojan warrior Dolan wearing a wolfskin
• Viking Berserkers May Have Been High on Hallucinogenic Herbal Tea (Insensitive to Pain, Heightened Aggression)
• Peter Stumpp, the “Werewolf of Bedburg”
• Medical paper Lycanthrope: A Review
• Medical paper abstract Lycanthropy: Alive and Well in the Twentieth Century
• Hypertrichosis
• Curious Genetics of Werewolves (picture of boys)
• Petrus Gonsalvus
• Petrus Gonsalvus and Beauty and the Beast
• “On Porphyria and the Aetiology of Werewolves”
• Porphyria
• Rabies
• Aquinas’s statement in his commentary on the Sentences

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Mysterious Headlines

• Werewolf Seen in New York State
• North Carolina Woman Claims “Werewolf” Sighting

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In this special episode, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli give a brief update on how they’ll be handling the topic of the coronavirus pandemic on the show and give brief faith and reason perspectives.

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Look what I found on the chalkboard this morning from our 7 yr old “The Def Star Turey”

Awesome! We really appreciate getting Mysterious World fan art! –Jimmy

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