Sinopsis
Since 2006, the weekly Skeptoid podcast has been taking on all the most popular myths and revealing the true science, true history, and true lessons we can learn from each. Free subscribers get the most recent 50 episodes, premium subscribers (skeptoid.com) can access the full archive, all ad-free.
Episodios
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Skeptoid #565: The Shag Harbour UFO
04/04/2017 Duración: 13minComparing the actual evidence to the Canadian claim of best evidence for alien visitation.
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Skeptoid #564: Into Thin Error
28/03/2017 Duración: 13minSkeptoid issues another round of corrections to past episodes.
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Skeptoid #563: Grounding the Ghost of Flight 401
21/03/2017 Duración: 12minThe unexpected facts behind this famous ghost story from the 1970s.
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Skeptoid #562: Rhino Horn: Cure or Curse?
14/03/2017 Duración: 14minRhinos are still being killed for their horns, but probably not for the reasons you thought.
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Skeptoid #561: Beethoven's Hair
07/03/2017 Duración: 15minPopular stories claim Beethoven died of lead poisoning, but the science so far doesn't hold up.
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Skeptoid #560: Remembering the Mandela Effect
28/02/2017 Duración: 13minSome claim that certain common false memories are evidence for alternate realities.
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Skeptoid #559: Hitler's Antarctic Fortress Unmasked
21/02/2017 Duración: 14minDeconstructing a wild tale about a Nazi military base deep inside Antarctica.
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Skeptoid #558: Listener Feedback: Electric Boogaloo
14/02/2017 Duración: 11minSkeptoid answers another round of listener feedback, keeping the show on the straight and narrow.
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Skeptoid #557: Who Were the Berserkers?
07/02/2017 Duración: 13minThese mighty Norse warriors fought with a frenzy that seems all but inexplicable.
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Skeptoid #556: Exploring Kincaid's Cave
31/01/2017 Duración: 13minSome say a marvelous cave of Egyptian wonders is hidden in the Grand Canyon.
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Skeptoid #555: Thorium Reactors: Fact and Fiction
24/01/2017 Duración: 14minThese next-generation reactors have attracted a nearly cultish following. Here are the real facts.
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Skeptoid #554: How Your Credit Card Got Stolen
17/01/2017 Duración: 14minHere are the most likely ways that your credit card got stolen, and how you can prevent it in the future.
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Skeptoid #553: How Your Password Got Stolen
10/01/2017 Duración: 13minThe facts, fiction, and real risk to you of all these high-profile data breaches online.
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Skeptoid #552: The D. B. Cooper Mystery
03/01/2017 Duración: 13minThe world's only unsolved hijacking case is filled with misinformation.
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Skeptoid #551: Space Missions You Should Know
27/12/2016 Duración: 13minA roundup of the most exciting and important space missions you really need to know about.
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Skeptoid #550: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
20/12/2016 Duración: 13minIn 1944, a strange night prowler is believed to have made poison gas attacks in Illinois. Here's what we know.
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Skeptoid #549: The Simple Proof of Man-Made Global Warming
13/12/2016 Duración: 14minThe two most basic Smoking Guns proving that carbon from fossil fuels is warming the Earth.
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Skeptoid #548: Bruce Lee Myths
06/12/2016 Duración: 13minMore mythology than fact surrounds this enigmatic figure from martial arts films.
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Skeptoid #547: The Ghost Fighter Plane of Pearl Harbor
29/11/2016 Duración: 12minPublished accounts tell of a mysterious fighter plane that came into Pearl Harbor a year after the Japanese attack.
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Skeptoid #546: There's No Such Thing as Race... Or Is There?
22/11/2016 Duración: 13minGenetically, race does not exist; but there are still inconvenient places for it in science.