Skeptoid

Skeptoid answers some listener emails that present common flaws in scientific thinking.

The true history behind the claimed Nazi "wonder weapons" like anti-gravity flying saucers.

A thin, dark phantom three times the height of a man is said to stalk this peak in the Cairngorms.

The story goes that in 1994, fumes from a woman's body knocked out most of an emergency room staff.

My process for examining a new topic, to learn whether it's fact or fiction.

The facts, as we know them, about what really happened to maritime lore's most famous missing crew.

Pit bulls have a reputation for being the most dangerous dog breed. Turns out the facts just don't support that.

An urban legend in Korea states that running an electric fan at night can kill you.

Skeptoid responds to some feedback emails notable for their dependence on straw man arguments.

Skeptoid corrects another round of errors found in previous episodes.

No good evidence supports the claims that the leader of the Bounty mutineers made it safely back to England.

My list of the worst offenders on the web in the promotion of scientific and factual misinformation.

Said to have been haunting New Jersey for nearly 300 years, this alleged creature has its actual origins in politics.

Most election methods are fundamentally broken, but can be fixed with any of a number of tweaks.

The claim that someone else wrote Shakespeare's works is popular, but virtually indefensible.

Why it's impossible for a wooden vessel the size of Noah's Ark to be seaworthy.

Both brainwashing and its opposite, deprogramming, are equally mythological.

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

The story of a living beast in Scotland's Glamis Castle may have a nugget of truth.

There are lots of reasons to move away from fossil fuels, but the supposed hazards of fracking just aren't among them.