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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.
Episodes
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Skeptoid #898: Finding the Third Man
Reports from some extreme adventurers say that a benevolent presence sometimes appears to provide comfort. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #897: The Secret of the Norden Bombsight
Pop culture tells us the famous Norden bombsight from World War II was actually terribly inaccurate. Was it? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #896: The Treasures of the Copper Scroll
This greatest of all imaginable treasures from the Dead Sea Scrolls probably never existed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #895: The Hottest Temperature on Earth
Is the world record highest air temperature a solid measurement, or might it be invalid? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #894: The Klerksdorp Spheres
Are these remarkable stones natural, or proof of an ancient advanced civilization? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #893: Finding the Lost Tribesmen: Aure and Aura
Were these two men from an Amazon tribe that had been massacred, or could their story be explained more simply? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #892: The UFO That Wasn't Swamp Gas
A look into the origin story of swamp gas as the explanation for UFOs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #891: How to Change a Conspiracy Theorist's Mind
A roundup of the ways that work — and that don't work — to help a conspiracy theorist free himself from the rabbit hole. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #890: Skeptoid Scared Straight
In which I issue yet another round of corrections to past episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #889: Handling Fentanyl: A Touchy Topic
Popular wisdom tells us that just touching fentanyl can produce a lethal overdose. What's the fact and what's the fiction? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #888: On the Trail of the Mapinguari
Are ground sloths that somehow survived their extinction responsible for cryptid sightings in the Amazon? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #887: The Hard Fall of the Nephilim
Did giants really walk the Earth in our recent past? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #886: Student Questions: College of Central Florida, Part 2
Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #885: Student Questions: College of Central Florida, Part 1
Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #884: Hunting the Florida Skunk Ape
This Bigfoot-like cryptid is said to haunt the swamps of Florida. But has the story been around as long as people think? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #883: Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls
Watch out next time you take a poll... is someone trying to learn about you, or manipulate you? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #882: The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 3
The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #881: The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 2
The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #880: The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 1
The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #879: Alien Octopi
A popular Internet claim asserts that the DNA of the octopus is literally alien in origin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #878: Reining In the Expanding Earth
Although the Expanding Earth may seem like a silly conjecture, it was actually one of the leading geophysical models quite recently. Learn about your ad…
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Skeptoid #877: What the Oil Companies Really Knew, Part 2
Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #876: What the Oil Companies Really Knew, Part 1
Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #875: Pop Quiz: St. Patrick's Day
Today's quiz tests whether you've been skeptical of what you think you know about St. Patrick's Day. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #874: The Devil's Tramping Ground
Popular tales claim no plants at all will grow inside this round clearing in North Carolina, said to have been made by the Devil himself. Learn about your ad…
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Skeptoid #873: Earthquake Prediction
After every earthquake, there's always someone who claims to have predicted it. Is earthquake prediction possible? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #872: Climate Change Checkup: 2023 Edition
The state of the climate so far... how we're doing, and what do we need to work on the most. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #871: 7 Valentine's Day Myths
See if you can tell whether each of these popular beliefs about Valentine's Day are true or false. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #870: The Dirty Secret of Dirty Electricity
Is there such a thing as a type of electricity running through your home's wiring that delivers horrific health impacts to anyone living there? Learn about…
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Skeptoid #869: The Goat Man of Pope Lick Bridge
Stories of goat men are all over the world. Why is the Pope Lick goat man disproportionately famous? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #868: Top 10 Most Harmful Anti-Experts: 2023 Edition
Once again we round up the people working hardest to spread misinformation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #867: Student Questions: Guidestones and Tachyons
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by friendly folks all over the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #866: What THEY Don't Want You to Know About UFOs
Some great ways to think about all the current UFO craze. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #865: The Non-Mystery of Nan Madol
Was this megalithic site in the South Pacific built by the people who lived there at the time, or by aliens? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #864: Ask Me Anything, 2022 Edition
In which we wrap up 2022 by letting Skeptoid premium members Ask Me Anything. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #863: Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Woo
The latest form of magnet therapy promises to cure everything from headaches to cancer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #862: Human Mosquito Magnets
Is it true that mosquitoes like some people better than others? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #861: Marketing with Logical Fallacies
A look at some of the logically fallacious statements used to sell many of today's most popular products. Learn about your ad choices…
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The Big UFO Update!
The latest news, and some clips, from my indie documentary The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #860: Illuminating the Hornet Spooklight
Legend has it this ghost light has been spooking people in Missouri for hundreds of years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #859: How to Spot Fake News
A roundup of easy techniques anyone can employ to better discern accurate news reports from false ones. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #858: Resignation Syndrome
In this bizarre psychiatric condition, healthy children lapse into a coma that may last for years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #857: On the Health Benefits of Drinking Alcohol
Some say that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol actually has certain health benefits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #856: A Cavalcade of Corrections
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #855: Sniffing for Human Sex Pheromones
Do humans use pheromones to turn each other on? The science so far says... uhh, we have no idea. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #854: The Day Science Was Overthrown
A look at six times when there was a major paradigm shift in science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #853: Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO
This story of alien visitation in Brazil from 1996 claims to be the most convincing proof we have. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #852: Electric Cars and the Power Grid
Opponents of electric cars claim that the power grid can't keep up with the growing demand for electricity. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #851: How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You
Is your smartphone eavesdropping on your conversation? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #850: Ode to the Nightcrawler
Beware of this creepy cryptid, or you might just fall in love with it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #849: Who Really Killed the Electric Car?
Pop culture tells us that a conspiracy is what killed GM's EV1 in 2002. But is an exotic explanation really needed? Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #848: On the Trail of Papillon
How much truth was there to the prison escape story of Henri Charrière? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #847: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 2
Some more of the episodes where I went in with one idea, and came out with another. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #846: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 1
Some of the episodes where I went in expecting one thing, but found something different. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #845: Seeking the Soviet Battle Mole
The story goes that the Soviet Union had nuclear-powered underground vehicles for waging a whole new kind of war. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #844: What They're Saying About Electric Cars Now
The arguments made by electric car haters no longer hold up. Time to upgrade. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #843: Pop Quiz: Religious Symbolism
How well do you know your Skeptoid? Today's pop quiz focuses on questions drawn from episodes about world religions. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #842: The Day the UFO Deactivated the Nukes
It's said that in 1967, a UFO once deactivated an entire flight of US nuclear missiles in their silos. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #841: Feeling Out the Hairy Hands of Dartmoor
The story goes that in England in 1921, driving a particular stretch of road meant an encounter with a terrifying foe. Learn about your ad choices…
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The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See
Join me in producing this important feature documentary film on the modern UFO phenomenon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices