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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 #723: Draining the Holy Grail
The true history of the Holy Grail, the most precious of all artifacts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #722: Pandemic Conspiracies and Politics
How the conspiracy theories around today's pandemic compare to those of the past. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #721: Debunking Ancient Aliens, Part 3
A look at some of the ancient artworks and artifacts that the show Ancient Aliens gets totally wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #720: Debunking Ancient Aliens, Part 2
A look at some of the ancient sites and cities that the show Ancient Aliens gets totally wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #719: Debunking Ancient Aliens, Part 1
A look at some of the ancient sites and cities that the show Ancient Aliens gets totally wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #718: Diagnosing Chronic Lyme Disease
Often dismissed as purely pseudoscientific and nonexistent, chronic Lyme disease is not necessarily nothing. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #717: Rethinking Plastic Straw Bans
Bans on plastic drinking straws are a solution in search of a problem. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #716: Learning Languages from Brain Injuries
Popular stories on the Internet tell of people coming out of comas and suddenly speaking a new language. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #715: The Knowles Family UFO Incident
This family's car is said to have been lifted off the road by a UFO and dropped. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #714: Killing the Hammersmith Ghost
Some possible explanations for this infamously deadly 19th century haunting near London. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #713: On the Trail of Red Mercury
The most elusive substance in pop culture also purports to be one of the most destructive. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #712: Apple Cider Vinegar Woo
A test of the many sensational health claims made for apple cider vinegar. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #711: The Trashy Secret of Plastic Bag Bans
Science decides the question of whether plastic bag bans help or hurt the environment. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #710: Your Weirdest Thing, Vol. 4
I give my thoughts trying to solve some of your weirdest experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #709: Wind Turbines and Birds
Wind turbines actually save many more bird lives than they destroy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #708: All About Sex Addiction
The topic of sex addiction and what to do about it turns out to be more complicated than you may think. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #707: Vermeer and the Camera Obscura
Popular claims that the painter Vermeer used a camera obscura contradict the evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #706: MSG: How a Friendly Flavor Became Your Enemy
The history of this vilified flavoring is a wild ride through 20th century cultural influences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #705: Listener Feedback: The Plot Thickens
Listeners offer some updates and new information to previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #704: The Green Children of Woolpit
In the 12th century, a pair of mysterious children with green skin surprised English villagers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #703: Your Weirdest Thing, Vol. 3
I give my thoughts trying to solve some of your weirdest experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #702: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
These risky medical devices are increasingly being sold to treat conditions they don't treat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #701: Seneca Guns and Skyquakes
These mysterious cannon-like booms are heard all around the world, with no apparent source. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #700: A Whale of a Tale
In which we celebrate 700 episodes of great storytelling... sea shanty style. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #699: The Mystery of the Ellen Austin
The true history behind one of the Bermuda Triangle's strangest legends. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #698: Radon in Your Basement
Is this gas a risk you should worry about, or is it just another homeowner scam? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #697: Reactionless Space Drives
Conspiracy theorists and alternate science believers continue to claim triumph over the laws of nature. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #696: History's Smallest Underground War
The public's zeal for sensationalism over facts can sometimes have deadly consequences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #695: Fighting Global Warming with Economics
There's always been an easy solution to global warming on the table, and it won't hurt the economy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #694: Playing Error Guitar
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors in previous episodes caught by you amazing listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #693: The Age of the Sphinx
Popular TV shows try to persuade us that Egypt's Great Sphinx is far older than archaeology tells us. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #692: Thirteen: The Private History of a Curse
The number 13 may have more relevance in your life than you suspect. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #691: FLICC: 5 Techniques of Science Denial
One popular rubric for identifying the common techniques used by science deniers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #690: Video Games and Violence
Data does not support the popular belief that video games promote violent behavior. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #689: The Bili Ape of the Congo
The facts behind the legend of a mysterious giant ape, said by some to be a chimp-gorilla hybrid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #688: Your Phavorite Phollowups
Updates and newer information to some of the conclusions in your favorite Skeptoid episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #687: No, Electric Cars Don't Pollute More
Popularly shared articles claim electric cars produce more greenhouses gases than internal combustion cars. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #686: Your Weirdest Thing, Vol. 2
I give my thoughts trying to solve some of your weirdest experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #685: Your Weirdest Thing, Vol. 1
I take a shot at critical analysis of your weirdest experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #684: Starlite, the Magical Mystery Material
The real reasons for the disappearance of this amateur material said to be able to withstand even a nuclear blast. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #683: Prehistoric Supersonic Monster Tides
A geophysical look at the idea that Earth's early history had enormous destructive tides. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #682: Mexico's Zone of Silence
Legend has it that radios and compasses will not work in this remote Mexican desert. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #681: Alien Visitation and Kecksburg
We can often get a good sense of a UFO story's accuracy even without researching all the details. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #680: The True Fate of the Amber Room
State-sponsored disinformation continues to drive treasure hunters who seek the legendary Amber Room. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #679: The Greenbrier Ghost
A skeptical look at the time a ghost's testimony resulted in a murder conviction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #678: What the Feedback
More updates and additional information for some recent Skeptoid episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #677: 5G: Upgrade or Uncertainty?
An examination of the claims that 5G cell phone data service is potentially harmful to life. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #676: Glyphosate and Behavioral Economics
How misinformation spread over one of the safest herbicides becoming known as one of the most harmful. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #675: Valiant Thor: Your Friendly Pentagon Alien
Some believe this benevolent alien from Venus lived and advised at the Pentagon for three years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #674: Student Questions: Drinking Urine and Studying to Music
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #673: Yamashita's Gold
The facts behind the urban legend that billions in Japanese gold lie buried in the Philippines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #672: Refeeding Syndrome and Sudden Death
Can starving people actually die immediately upon being given their first bite of food? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #671: China, Imported Recyclables, and Ocean Plastic
Addressing the facts and the fictions around China's ending its overseas purchases of recyclable plastic. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #670: Wrong Does Not Cease to be Wrong
The 15th episode devoted to corrections in previous shows. If it ain't right, we fix it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #669: Pop Quiz: History and Pseudohistory
Test your knowledge on these subjects, all covered by Skeptoid, on false history claims. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #668: A Science Based Ghost Hunting Toolkit
How a TV ghost hunting show might look if they did what they claim, and used science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #667: All About Atlantis
For centuries, alternative history fans have been denying Plato's intent and trying to frame Atlantis as a real island. Learn about your ad choices…
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Skeptoid #666: The Historicity of Jesus Christ
A review of the evidence for and against the life of Jesus of Nazareth as a real living man. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #665: Ocean Plastics: Facts and Falsehoods
The nature of the problem of ocean plastics, and the best solution, may both come as surprises. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Skeptoid #664: The Keto Diet
It's the latest fad diet, and people are trying it for just about any benefit you can think of. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices