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 #497: A Skeptical Look at the Rorschach Test

    15/12/2015 Duración: 13min

    The famous Rorschach inkblot test is not a window into the subconscious, and doesn't tell us anything useful.

  • Skeptoid #496: The Russian Sleep Experiment

    08/12/2015 Duración: 13min

    Russian test subjects are said to have done unspeakably horrible things when sleep deprived.

  • Skeptoid: Bad Skepticism

    04/12/2015 Duración: 01min

    A new live show from Skeptoid Media: Bad Skepticism!

  • Skeptoid #495: Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites

    01/12/2015 Duración: 15min

    The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation.

  • Skeptoid #494: Black Mold: Peril or Prosaic?

    24/11/2015 Duración: 12min

    Black mold is commonly believed to harbor many deadly diseases; but in fact removing it is often worse than leaving it.

  • Skeptoid #493: How Real Is the Stockholm Syndrome?

    17/11/2015 Duración: 13min

    While the Stockholm syndrome sounds like a mere media buzzword, it does actually sometimes happen.

  • Skeptoid #492: Pouring Cold Water on Cryotherapy

    10/11/2015 Duración: 12min

    Questioning whether this new spa treatment provides all the medical benefits it claims.

  • Skeptoid #491: 420: The Cannabis Code

    03/11/2015 Duración: 12min

    Myths and competing claims fog the origin of the term 420, a slang code for marijuana.

  • Skeptoid #490: Deconstructing the Tasaday Tribe

    27/10/2015 Duración: 14min

    Some say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple.

  • Skeptoid #489: The Science of X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys

    20/10/2015 Duración: 12min

    These products advertised in the back of comic books promised improbable feats of science.

  • Skeptoid #488: Who Was Charles Fort?

    13/10/2015 Duración: 12min

    This enigmatic author of the strange continues to confound.

  • Skeptoid #487: About That 1970s Global Cooling...

    06/10/2015 Duración: 13min

    No, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age.

  • Skeptoid #486: The Flying Saucer Menace

    29/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore.

  • Skeptoid #485: Holocaust Denial

    22/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it.

  • Skeptoid #484: More Unsung Women of Science

    15/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    Some women you haven't heard of who made significant contributions to science.

  • Skeptoid #483: Unsung Women of Science

    08/09/2015 Duración: 14min

    These important scientists are virtually unknown. Let's see if we can fix that.

  • Skeptoid #482: Franklin's Cannibals

    01/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    The fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence.

  • Skeptoid #481: Captain Kidd's Treasure

    25/08/2015 Duración: 12min

    Think you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again.

  • Skeptoid #480: The Nazi of Nanking

    18/08/2015 Duración: 14min

    This most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.

  • Skeptoid #479: Chemicals

    11/08/2015 Duración: 15min

    Chemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything.

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