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 #497: A Skeptical Look at the Rorschach Test
15/12/2015 Duración: 13minThe famous Rorschach inkblot test is not a window into the subconscious, and doesn't tell us anything useful.
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Skeptoid #496: The Russian Sleep Experiment
08/12/2015 Duración: 13minRussian test subjects are said to have done unspeakably horrible things when sleep deprived.
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Skeptoid: Bad Skepticism
04/12/2015 Duración: 01minA new live show from Skeptoid Media: Bad Skepticism!
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Skeptoid #495: Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites
01/12/2015 Duración: 15minThe worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation.
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Skeptoid #494: Black Mold: Peril or Prosaic?
24/11/2015 Duración: 12minBlack mold is commonly believed to harbor many deadly diseases; but in fact removing it is often worse than leaving it.
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Skeptoid #493: How Real Is the Stockholm Syndrome?
17/11/2015 Duración: 13minWhile the Stockholm syndrome sounds like a mere media buzzword, it does actually sometimes happen.
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Skeptoid #492: Pouring Cold Water on Cryotherapy
10/11/2015 Duración: 12minQuestioning whether this new spa treatment provides all the medical benefits it claims.
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Skeptoid #491: 420: The Cannabis Code
03/11/2015 Duración: 12minMyths and competing claims fog the origin of the term 420, a slang code for marijuana.
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Skeptoid #490: Deconstructing the Tasaday Tribe
27/10/2015 Duración: 14minSome say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple.
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Skeptoid #489: The Science of X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys
20/10/2015 Duración: 12minThese products advertised in the back of comic books promised improbable feats of science.
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Skeptoid #488: Who Was Charles Fort?
13/10/2015 Duración: 12minThis enigmatic author of the strange continues to confound.
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Skeptoid #487: About That 1970s Global Cooling...
06/10/2015 Duración: 13minNo, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age.
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Skeptoid #486: The Flying Saucer Menace
29/09/2015 Duración: 13minThe true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore.
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Skeptoid #485: Holocaust Denial
22/09/2015 Duración: 13minWhy some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it.
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Skeptoid #484: More Unsung Women of Science
15/09/2015 Duración: 13minSome women you haven't heard of who made significant contributions to science.
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Skeptoid #483: Unsung Women of Science
08/09/2015 Duración: 14minThese important scientists are virtually unknown. Let's see if we can fix that.
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Skeptoid #482: Franklin's Cannibals
01/09/2015 Duración: 13minThe fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence.
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Skeptoid #481: Captain Kidd's Treasure
25/08/2015 Duración: 12minThink you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again.
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Skeptoid #480: The Nazi of Nanking
18/08/2015 Duración: 14minThis most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.
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Skeptoid #479: Chemicals
11/08/2015 Duración: 15minChemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything.