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 #359: Cupping for the Cure
23/04/2013 Duración: 11minSome believe that bruise-causing suction on the skin provides a variety of health benefits.
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Skeptoid #358: Listener Feedback: Aliens and UFOs
16/04/2013 Duración: 10minSkeptoid digs into the feedback mailbag and answers questions about aliens and UFOs.
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Skeptoid #357: The Aquatic Ape Theory
09/04/2013 Duración: 11minThere is a popular fringe theory about human evolution that claims we went through an aquatic phase.
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Skeptoid #356: John Titor, Time Traveler
02/04/2013 Duración: 11minAn Internet legend claims that a man named John Titor is a visitor from the year 2036.
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Skeptoid #355: The Airplane That Wasn't There
26/03/2013 Duración: 14minA B-25 bomber ditched in a Pennsylvania river in broad daylight 1956 and, seemingly impossibly, was never found.
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Skeptoid #354: The Pentagon and the Missile
19/03/2013 Duración: 13minSome say that it wasn't an airliner that struck the Pentagon on 9/11, but a missile.
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Skeptoid #353: Pope Joan
12/03/2013 Duración: 13minThis apocryphal Middle Ages pope said to be a woman in disguise probably never existed.
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Skeptoid #352: Facts and Fiction of the Schumann Resonance
05/03/2013 Duración: 14minThe Schumann Resonance, 7.83Hz, is one natural radio band in our atmosphere, but holds no mystical powers.
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Skeptoid #351: Men in Black
26/02/2013 Duración: 14minA look at the mysterious government agents said to intimidate those who witness flying saucers.
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Skeptoid #350: Trinity: Interview with Dr. Oz, Alex Jones, and Deepak Chopra
19/02/2013 Duración: 07minSkeptoid interviews three of the most popular and controversial figures in modern pseudoscience.
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Skeptoid #349: Top 10 Best Pro-Science Celebrities
12/02/2013 Duración: 13minA list of ten Hollywood celebrities who have leveraged their fame into the promotion of science.
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Skeptoid #348: Ganzfeld Experiments
05/02/2013 Duración: 13minThe true history of the experiment that is said to present the strongest evidence yet for telepathic abilities.
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Skeptoid #347: The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine
29/01/2013 Duración: 15minThis most famous of all fabled "lost mines" has a history that fails to stand up to skeptical scrutiny.
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Skeptoid #346: Listener Feedback: Me and My Terrible Arguments
22/01/2013 Duración: 13minSkeptoid responds to another round of listener feedback.
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Skeptoid #345: The Cult of Nikola Tesla
15/01/2013 Duración: 15minThe name of Nikola Tesla is associated with crazy conspiracy claims that have nothing to do with his real work.
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Skeptoid #344: Olgoi-Khorkhoi: The Mongolian Death Worm
08/01/2013 Duración: 13minMongolian tradition holds that a strange and deadly worm lives beneath the sands of the Gobi desert.
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Skeptoid #343: The Hollow Earth Theory
01/01/2013 Duración: 13minThroughout history there have been a number of different beliefs that the Earth might be hollow.
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Skeptoid #342: Was the Wow! Signal Alien?
25/12/2012 Duración: 12minA signal received by a radio telescope in 1977 may be the best evidence yet for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Skeptoid #341: Free Energy Machines
18/12/2012 Duración: 13minSomeone somewhere is always claiming to have cracked the secret of free energy forever, no fuel needed.
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Skeptoid #340: Listener Feedback: A Cacophony of Conspiracies
11/12/2012 Duración: 11minHow you can convince your friends that their conspiracy theories are nonsensical.