Skeptoid

American POW/MIAs are probably not still being held captive inside Vietnam.

The 1996 mass murder in Tasmania was not secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned.

The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book.

Skeptoid answers more listener feedback. Recorded live at the 250th Episode party.

A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music.

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

Exorcisms are a brutal torture ritual with no hope of actually helping a person who believes themselves possessed.

This famous story of God once healing an amputee falls apart under historical scrutiny.

Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs.

Historians actually have a pretty complete picture of what happened to the "missing" Roanoke colonists.

Atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war would not result in devastating global cooling.

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

The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory.

Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas.

Various "gravitational anomalies" around the world have fascinating real science behind them.

Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people.

Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors.

Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true.

Navy sonar is claimed to be lethal to whales, but the latest research tells a very different story.

IQ tests are fundamentally flawed, hopelessly inconsistent, and almost completely useless.