Skeptoid

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

A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane.

We still don't know the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash.

DDT can be both a killer of birds and a savior against malaria. Rarely is a question as black and white as we'd like.

Speed reading classes claim to be able to turbocharge your words per minute. Save your money; it doesn't work.

A few of my favorite moments looking back on 228 Skeptoid episodes.

Although a lot of products promise to boost your immune system, there is actually no such thing.

A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads, but researchers solved it a century ago.

The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is not to plan global domination.

News agencies have long promoted a 2001 red rainfall as alien, but a better explanation was already there.

Stories of living frogs being found encased in solid rock have a more interesting (and reality-based) explanation.

The Curse of Macbeth should make Shakespeare's play too dangerous to perform, but science tells us for sure.

A critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

A look at a massive stone structure off the coast of Japan, said to be a manmade pyramid.

Josef Stalin did not order the creation of an army of half-ape, half-human hybrids.

A close look at some of the stories of UFOs said to have been reported by NASA astronauts.

Skeptoid looks at some newer logical fallacies, often used in place of sound arguments.

A look at what's really in food reveals the foolishness of the idea of "good food" and "bad food".

More vitriol from the Skeptoid inbox exposed.

Another round of answering questions sent in by students everywhere.