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 #274: Listener Feedback Revolutions
06/09/2011 Duración: 13minAnother batch of listener emails answered and dissected. And served.
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Skeptoid #273: Wi-Fi, Smart Meters, and Other Radio Bogeymen
30/08/2011 Duración: 12minDemonizing radio transmitters as carcinogenic is popular, but is not supported by any reasonable science.
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Skeptoid #272: Are We Alone?
23/08/2011 Duración: 12minWe are not alone in the galaxy. Here's why that doesn't mean we've been visited by anyone.
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Skeptoid #271: The Zionist Conspiracy
16/08/2011 Duración: 13minThere is no plausible reason to think a conspiracy of Jews plans to take over the world's banks and governments.
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Skeptoid #270: The Hessdalen Lights
09/08/2011 Duración: 13minSome seek a natural or alien explanation for these aerial lights in Norway. Turns out the true cause is much simpler.
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Skeptoid #269: The Abominable Snowman
02/08/2011 Duración: 12minScience shows that the Yeti of the Himalayas is almost certainly not a real creature.
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Skeptoid #268: Student Questions: Energy Shots and Sunscreen
26/07/2011 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students.
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Skeptoid #267: Zeno's Paradoxes
19/07/2011 Duración: 12minGreek philosopher Zeno apparently proved that movement was impossible with a few simple paradoxes.
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Skeptoid #266: Feedback through a Fine Toothed Comb
12/07/2011 Duración: 12minPrepare to have your mind blown by these listener emails from conspiracy theorists.
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Skeptoid #265: Curing Gays
05/07/2011 Duración: 14minTherapies intended to help gays become straight don't work.
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Skeptoid #264: Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Crazy
28/06/2011 Duración: 12minWe usually dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy people; but that doesn't tell the whole story.
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Skeptoid #263: Anastasia
21/06/2011 Duración: 13minThe Grand Duchess Anastasia did not survive her family's 1918 execution, and did not go on to live in the US.
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Skeptoid #262: The Haitian Zombies
14/06/2011 Duración: 13minA look at the possibility that legends of Haitian zombies may have a grain of truth.
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Skeptoid #261: Near Death Experiences
07/06/2011 Duración: 13minA comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife.
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Skeptoid #260: Military Dolphins: James Bonds of the Sea
31/05/2011 Duración: 13minThe facts behind the stories of military dolphins trained to attack divers and plant mines on ships.
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Skeptoid #259: Mao's Barefoot Doctors: The Secret History of Chinese Medicine
24/05/2011 Duración: 13minWesterners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine is due in part to clever book publishers.
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Skeptoid #258: Spontaneous Human Combustion
17/05/2011 Duración: 12minPeople can catch on fire… and there doesn't seem to be anything too mysterious about any given case.
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Skeptoid #257: The Secret of Plum Island
10/05/2011 Duración: 13minThis secret government lab was said to create genetic mutants. Here's what they actually did.
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Skeptoid #256: Student Questions: Supermoons and an Apple a Day
03/05/2011 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students from around the world.
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Skeptoid #255: Superhuman Strength during a Crisis
26/04/2011 Duración: 12minPopular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. The science behind it is less than compelling.