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Skeptoid
The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.
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Skeptoid #128: Student Questions: the Mozart Effect, Quantum Theory, and AIDS
Skeptoid answers some questions sent in by students. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #127: The Truth about Aspartame
The artificial sweetener aspartame is falsely accused of being the cause of nearly every disease. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #126: The Incorruptibles
We turn our skeptical eye on claims of incorruptibility - bodies that do not decay after death. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #125: Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience
A critical look at the pseudoscientific antics of some of today's celebrities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #124: Betty and Barney Hill: The Original UFO Abduction
A critical look at the original UFO abduction story, that so many people take for granted. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #123: Listener Feedback Reloaded
More fun from the inbox, responding to listener feedback. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #122: HAARP Myths
A close look at HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and the claim that it's a superweapon. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #121: Scalar Weapons: Tesla's Doomsday Machine?
No, Nikola Tesla did not design a superweapon capable of vaporizing whole parts of the earth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #120: The World According to Conservapedia
A new Young Earth Fundamentalist online encyclopedia rears its ugly head. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #119: Student Questions: Body Searches and Theta Healing
Skeptoid answers some more questions from students. Send yours in today! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #118: Demystifying the Bell Witch
An exploration of the best way to evaluate an old, unsubstantiated folk legend like The Bell Witch. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #117: How Dangerous Is Cell Phone Radiation?
There is neither evidence nor plausible hypothetical foundation for cell phone signals to be at all dangerous. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #116: How to Be a Skeptic and Still Have Friends
Being known as a skeptic is not necessarily good for your social life. Here's how to overcome the difficulties. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #115: Search for the Missing Cosmonauts
A pair of young Italian brothers probably didn't uncover evidence of Soviet cosmonauts dying in space. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #114: Student Questions: Fish Oil, Charities, and Rumors
Skeptoid answers some questions sent in by students. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #113: The Most Effective Homeopathy Podcast Ever
For the first time ever, the active ingredients in homeopathic preparations are revealed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #112: Genetically Modified Organisms: Jeopardy or Jackpot?
Despite the popular fearmongering, GMO technologies promise a boon to agriculture and humanity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #111: Should Tibet Be Free?
Misinformation and fantasy surrounds the popular Tibet notions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #110: Illuminating the Fatima Miracle of the Sun
The pope canonized them, but these three children didn't actually predict anything in 1917. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #109: Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the Earth?
Some people believe that CERN's Large Hadron Collider will create black holes that will destroy the Earth. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #108: Mystery at Dyatlov Pass
A look at one of Russia's most bizarre mysteries of mass death. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #107: Spy Radio: Numbers Stations
A look at mysterious shortwave "numbers stations" around the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #106: King Tut's Curse!
A look at the tale, the popular explanation, and the real science behind it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #105: When People Talk Backwards
Some people believe that your brain encodes its actual meaning in reverse within everything you say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #104: Yet More Winning Listener Feedback
Another visit to the endless well of listeners comments and criticisms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #103: Should You Take Your Vitamins?
Vitamin C does nothing to prevent or reduce the severity of colds. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #102: What You Didn't Know about the Stanford Prison Experiment
The Stanford Prison Experiment, said to have proven that evil environments produce evil behavior, was completely unscientific and unreliable. Learn about your…
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Skeptoid #101: Things I'm Wrong About
A look back correcting some of the facts and figures that Skeptoid has gotten wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #100: Is Peak Oil the End of Civilization?
When we run out of oil, society will likely peacefully and gradually adapt. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #99: Reassembling TWA Flight 800
TWA Flight 800 was not shot down by US friendly fire. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #98: The Crystal Skull: Mystical, or Modern?
Despite their reputation for mystical powers, crystal skulls are neither ancient nor mysterious. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #97: The Face on Mars Revealed
New high resolution imagery has proven that this hill on Mars doesn't look quite so much like a carved face after all. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #96: What's Wrong with The Secret
The Secret teaches that victims are always to blame, and that anyone can have anything simply by wishing. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #95: Bend Over and Own Your Own Business
If someone wants you to be their salesperson and is calling it a "business opportunity", be very skeptical. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #94: Fire in the Sky: A Real UFO Abduction?
The evidence shows that Travis Walton's famous story of having been abducted by aliens probably never happened. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #93: Apocalypse 2012
The real science behind the events predicted in 2012. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #92: Rethinking Nuclear Power
There are many good reasons why environmentalists are turning again to nuclear power for the future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #91: More Outrageous Listener Feedback
My responses to some of the more "out there" feedback I've received. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #90: Can You Hear the Hum?
An exploration of the mysterious rumble that some people hear all over the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #89: Despicable Vulture Scumbags
My thoughts on a company that sells useless pseudoscientific hardware to an ALS victim. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #88: Super Sized Fast Food Phobia
Unlike what's said in highly dramatized Hollywood shockumentaries, fast food is not especially unhealthy. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #87: Water: Alternative Fuel of the Future?
Cranks love to make the claim on YouTube, but you cannot run your car on water. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #86: MonaVie and Other "Superfruit" Juices
Superfruit juices are nothing more than super ripoffs. Don't waste your money. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #85: World Trade Center 7: The Lies Come Crashing Down
The collapse of 7 World Trade Center was not a controlled demolition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #84: Magic Jewelry
All sorts of marvelous health claims are made for jewelry such as the Q-Ray bracelet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #83: The Detoxification Myth
Despite its sciencey-sounding name, there is no such thing as "detoxification" beyond what your body already does. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #82: What Do Creationists Really Believe?
Creationism is not one set of beliefs - it is a battleground of dramatically conflicting world views. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #81: Ghost Hunting Tools of the Trade
Why the use of electronic equipment by TV ghost hunters is so stupid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #80: Are Microwave Ovens Safe?
An examination of the various claims that microwaved food and water are poisonous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #79: Aliens in Roswell
Pop culture says it was an alien spaceship -- but history tells us what was really found in the New Mexico desert. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #78: Medical Myths in Movies and Culture
A skeptical examination of pop-culture medical beliefs, like dramatically stabbing someone in the heart with a syringe. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #77: Orang Pendek: Forest Hobbit of Sumatra
A description of Sumatra's own little miniature Bigfoot legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #76: Who Kills More, Religion or Atheism?
Neither religion nor atheism been responsible for a greater death toll throughout human history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #75: How to See Your Aura
Despite promotional claims, neither auras nor aura photography are things. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #74: A Magical Journey through the Land of Logical Fallacies - Part 2
The second part of our exploration of logical fallacies. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #73: A Magical Journey through the Land of Logical Fallacies - Part 1
An examination of many of the most common logical fallacies. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #72: Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Real or Imagined?
Some claim to be hypersensitive to electromagnetism. Science has already solved what's really going on. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #71: How to Drink Gnarly Breast Milk
Proponents of colostrum supplements believe that it has a whole range of benefits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #70: Raging (Bioidentical) Hormones
An examination of the popular trend in women's health, bioidentical hormone therapy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #69: Ann Coulter, Scientist
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter should stick to politics; her science is too screwed up for words. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices