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 #333: Student Questions: Dancing Plague and the Cinnamon Challenge
23/10/2012 Duración: 13minSkeptoid answers another round of student questions sent in from all around the world.
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Skeptoid #332: The Phantom Time Hypothesis
16/10/2012 Duración: 14minA number of theories claim that several centuries never actually happened, and were faked by the Church.
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Skeptoid #331: The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
09/10/2012 Duración: 13minA rural family spent half a night battling what they thought were space aliens.
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Skeptoid #330: Hypnotism: Hijacking Your Brain?
02/10/2012 Duración: 13minThe facts and the fiction of one of the most intriguing psychological phenomena.
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Skeptoid #329: Is She Real, or Is She Fictional?
25/09/2012 Duración: 16minSee if you can tell which of these famous women from history are real, and which are fictional.
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Skeptoid #328: Secrets of the Stradivarius
18/09/2012 Duración: 12minThe secret of history's greatest stringed instrument, the Stradivarius violin, is that there is no secret.
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Skeptoid #327: Raiding the Ark of the Covenant
11/09/2012 Duración: 12minThe true history of the most famous holy relic from Biblical times.
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Skeptoid #326: The Mystery of the Vitrified Forts
04/09/2012 Duración: 13minSome 60 ancient stone forts in Scotland have vitrified walls, with the stone melted into glass. Here's what we know.
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Skeptoid #325: The Golden Ratio
28/08/2012 Duración: 13minFor centuries, claims both scientific and pseudoscientific have been made for the golden ratio.
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Skeptoid #324: Listener Feedback: That Darned Science
21/08/2012 Duración: 13minSkeptoid responds to some listener emails that question the validity of the scientific method.
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Skeptoid #323: 8 Spooky Places, and Why They're Like That
14/08/2012 Duración: 14minThese strange places around the world rank among the most macabre, but have interesting explanations.
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Skeptoid #322: Negative Calorie Food Myths
07/08/2012 Duración: 12minNegative calorie foods, said to require more energy to digest than they provide, are a popular food fad.
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Skeptoid #321: Skinwalkers
31/07/2012 Duración: 14minNavajo Skinwalkers were said to be able to shapeshift into animals, but don't worry, it's just a tall tale.
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Skeptoid #320: The Suicide Dogs of Overtoun Bridge
24/07/2012 Duración: 12minThere's a bridge in Scotland where dogs are said to deliberately commit suicide.
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Skeptoid #319: Student Questions: Food Woo and Iron Man at the Airport
17/07/2012 Duración: 11minSkeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.
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Skeptoid #318: The Loch Ness Monster
10/07/2012 Duración: 13minThe world's most famous cryptid is said to swim in Scotland's most famous loch.
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Skeptoid #317: Attack of the Nanobots!
03/07/2012 Duración: 14minA look at the belief that nanotechnology may result in an army of self-replicating machines that consume society.
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New Skeptoid Books
28/06/2012 Duración: 01minSkeptoid announces two new paperbacks: "Astronauts, Aliens, and Ape-Men" plus "The Secret of the Gypsy Queen".
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Skeptoid #316: Al-Ghazali and Arab-Islamic Science
26/06/2012 Duración: 13minSome say that Persian theologian al-Ghazali was solely responsible for the end of the Golden Age of science.
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Skeptoid #315: The Tehran 1976 UFO
19/06/2012 Duración: 15minDeclassified military documents show that Iranian fighter planes engaged a UFO in 1976. Here's what's actually known.