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 #391: 8 Secret Bases: Real or Fictional?

    03/12/2013 Duración: 13min

    Guess which of these secret military bases around the world are real.

  • Skeptoid #390: The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave

    26/11/2013 Duración: 12min

    Some say that an early Native American tribe were giant cannibals.

  • Skeptoid #389: The JFK Assassination

    19/11/2013 Duración: 13min

    After so many decades, the number of incompatible conspiracy theories about the death of JFK continues to grow.

  • Skeptoid #388: 6 Problems with Wind Turbine Syndrome

    12/11/2013 Duración: 14min

    Despite activist claims, wind turbines are not making anybody sick.

  • Skeptoid #387: Who Discovered the New World?

    05/11/2013 Duración: 12min

    Of all the many claims of Europeans being first to the New World, only one is true.

  • Skeptoid #386: Tracking the Tasmanian Tiger

    29/10/2013 Duración: 13min

    Some say this extinct Tasmanian marsupial may still roam the forests. The evidence is against them.

  • Skeptoid #385: The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich

    22/10/2013 Duración: 13min

    A young pilot who disappeared in 1978 might have been having a little fun, Spielberg style.

  • Skeptoid #384: Asking the Socratic Questions

    15/10/2013 Duración: 12min

    A line of reasoning named for Socrates helps us help believers in the strange re-examine their beliefs.

  • Skeptoid #383: 5 False Arguments for Raw Milk

    08/10/2013 Duración: 14min

    Some people who enjoy raw milk also make up false claims that regular milk is more dangerous.

  • Skeptoid #382: Into the Maelstrom (or Not)

    01/10/2013 Duración: 12min

    A look into the plausibility and historicity of the ferocious maelstrom of legend.

  • Skeptoid #381: An Enthusiast's Primer on Study Types

    24/09/2013 Duración: 13min

    A quick look at many of the most common scientific study types.

  • Skeptoid #380: The Riddle of the L-8 Blimp

    17/09/2013 Duración: 12min

    The crew of a blimp mysteriously vanished in 1942, but their blimp came back OK... without them.

  • Skeptoid #379: I Think, Therefore I Err

    10/09/2013 Duración: 12min

    Skeptoid corrects a bunch of errors made in previous episodes.

  • Skeptoid #378: Legendary Places: Real or Fictional?

    03/09/2013 Duración: 13min

    We look at twelve legendary places that you've heard of, but may not know whether they're real or not.

  • Skeptoid #377: Student Questions: Hangovers, Manuka Honey, and Probiotics

    27/08/2013 Duración: 11min

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

  • Skeptoid #376: Salt Therapies

    20/08/2013 Duración: 13min

    A new trend in spas is to let people relax in salt caves, and it's based on solid pseudoscience.

  • Skeptoid #375: The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film

    13/08/2013 Duración: 14min

    The true history behind the iconic Bigfoot film that launched the legend.

  • Skeptoid #374: Listener Feedback: Alternative Medicine

    06/08/2013 Duración: 14min

    Skeptoid answers a raft of listener emails pertaining to alternative medicine.

  • Skeptoid #373: The Secrets of MKULTRA

    30/07/2013 Duración: 13min

    The urban legend that the CIA conducted unethical mind control experiments has a grain of truth.

  • Skeptoid #372: Prove Your Supernatural Power and Get Rich

    23/07/2013 Duración: 11min

    If you can demonstrate a power unknown to science, there are people looking to write you a check.

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