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 #505: You've Got to Be Wrong to Be Right
09/02/2016 Duración: 13minSkeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.
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Skeptoid #504: Growing Skeptical of Hair Restoration
02/02/2016 Duración: 14minAs long as people lose their hair, the market will remain flooded with sham remedies.
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Skeptoid #503: Bad Science on PBS
26/01/2016 Duración: 14minThe reasons why PBS is so quick to promote pseudoscience informercials during pledge drives.
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Skeptoid #502: Listener Feedback: Killing the Comments
19/01/2016 Duración: 13minYour comments on our decision to remove the comments from Skeptoid episode transcript pages.
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Skeptoid #501: Schrodinger's Cat and the Bomb Detector
12/01/2016 Duración: 13minWhatever you think you know about Schrödinger's famous cat is probably wrong.
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Skeptoid #500: A Little Curiosity
05/01/2016 Duración: 06minIf you haven't yet found your curiosity in the first 500 episodes of Skeptoid, find it here.
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Skeptoid #499: The Hope Diamond: A Curse Deconstructed
29/12/2015 Duración: 13minFind out how the obviously false story of a curse came to be associated with this famous diamond.
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Skeptoid #498: Did the 1914 Christmas Truce Really Happen?
22/12/2015 Duración: 12minPopular stories tell of WWI soldiers laying aside their rifles on Christmas 1914. The facts are not quite so simple.
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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.