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One of pop food woo's favorite claims is that drugs given to beef cattle pose a danger to humans.

Just about everything you think you know about the Shaolin Monks was made up for tourists.

This mysterious alcoholic drink is the subject of more urban legends than any other liquor.

A proposal for how we can make skeptical programming more attractive to a larger audience.

Reliance on universal mathematical principles may mean alien music is similar to our own.

It's popular to criticize Mother Teresa, but that criticism might be better directed at the real culprit.

The FBI did not deliberately murder the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.

These superheroes of martial arts lore may not be exactly what you thought they were.

More pseudohistory than fact surrounds this ancient order's depictions in pop culture.

There is no truth to the popular myth that Hitler escaped Berlin and went to Argentina.

From swamp gas and waterspouts to alternative medicine, the harm of not challenging popular assumptions.

Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.

As long as people lose their hair, the market will remain flooded with sham remedies.

The reasons why PBS is so quick to promote pseudoscience informercials during pledge drives.

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Whatever you think you know about Schrödinger's famous cat is probably wrong.

If you haven't yet found your curiosity in the first 500 episodes of Skeptoid, find it here.

Find out how the obviously false story of a curse came to be associated with this famous diamond.

Popular stories tell of WWI soldiers laying aside their rifles on Christmas 1914. The facts are not quite so simple.