Skeptoid

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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

  • Skeptoid #525: Autopsy: The Clinton Body Count

    28/06/2016 Duración: 13min

    The surprising origins of the claim that the Clintons kill any who get in their way.

  • Skeptoid #524: Colony Collapse Disorder: Science and Pseudoscience

    21/06/2016 Duración: 13min

    Everyone loves to point the finger at the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder; here's what we actually know.

  • Skeptoid #523: How Do Homing Pigeons Navigate?

    14/06/2016 Duración: 13min

    The latest and greatest research reveals that we still have no clue how birds accomplish this amazing feat.

  • Skeptoid #522: Dark Watchers

    07/06/2016 Duración: 12min

    The true origins of the Dark Watchers, said to go all the way back to Chumash Indian stories.

  • Skeptoid #521: The New Flat Earthers

    31/05/2016 Duración: 13min

    The reinvented Flat Earth fad is less about geophysics and more about conspiracy mongering.

  • Skeptoid #520: Solving the Haunted Hoia-Baciu Forest

    24/05/2016 Duración: 12min

    It is said to be the world's most haunted forest. Here's what we actually find there.

  • Skeptoid #519: Alien Implants

    17/05/2016 Duración: 14min

    Some of those who believe they've been abducted by aliens also think they were left with a souvenir.

  • Skeptoid #518: Listener Feedback: Denial and Aliens

    10/05/2016 Duración: 12min

    Skeptoid answers some feedback sent in by listeners.

  • Skeptoid #517: Antibiotics and Hormones in Beef

    03/05/2016 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #516: Demythologizing the Shaolin Monks

    26/04/2016 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #515: All About Absinthe

    19/04/2016 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #514: Your Thoughts on Making Skepticism Commercial

    12/04/2016 Duración: 12min

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

  • Skeptoid #513: Why Musical Aliens Probably Use the Same Scale We Do

    05/04/2016 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #512: Decrypting Mother Teresa

    29/03/2016 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #511: Firestorm in Waco

    22/03/2016 Duración: 14min

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

  • Skeptoid #510: Student Questions: Multiple Intelligences and the Gender Pay Gap

    15/03/2016 Duración: 12min

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

  • Skeptoid #509: Ninjas Unmasked

    08/03/2016 Duración: 14min

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

  • Skeptoid #508: Demythologizing the Knights Templar

    01/03/2016 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #507: No, Hitler Did Not Escape

    23/02/2016 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #506: Bad Skepticism: Why You Should Challenge Popular Assumptions

    16/02/2016 Duración: 12min

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

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