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 #213: Mozart and Salieri
06/07/2010 Duración: 14minShockingly, Hollywood movies don't make us all history experts, and Salieri didn't murder Mozart.
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Skeptoid #212: Things About Which I Have In Error Been
29/06/2010 Duración: 12minMore additions to the corrections and errata files for Skeptoid.
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Skeptoid #211: Attack on Pearl Harbor
22/06/2010 Duración: 14minThe American government did not have advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and did not allow it to happen.
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Skeptoid #210: The North American Union
15/06/2010 Duración: 13minThe United States, Canada, and Mexico are not planning to merge into a single huge police state.
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Skeptoid #209: The Lost Ship of the Desert
08/06/2010 Duración: 11minThe facts behind tall tales from the American southwest of ships found in the middle of the desert.
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Skeptoid #208: The Westall '66 UFO
01/06/2010 Duración: 15min200 students watched a strange craft fly near their school in Australia in 1966 -- or so the story goes.
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Skeptoid #207: Dinosaurs Among Us
25/05/2010 Duración: 12minAll around the world, ancient art depicts creatures that some interpret as dinosaurs. Don't believe it.
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Skeptoid #206: Morgellons Disease
18/05/2010 Duración: 12minIn this newly described condition, some patients report strange plastic fibers growing from their skin.
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Skeptoid #205: Beyond Listener Feedback
11/05/2010 Duración: 12minAnother trip to the Listener Feedback files, including my favorite yet.
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Skeptoid #204: Mengele's Boys from Brazil
04/05/2010 Duración: 12minA town in Brazil has an unusually high twin rate, but not because Josef Mengele survived and did experiments there.
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Skeptoid #203: Therapeutic Touch
27/04/2010 Duración: 13minTherapeutic touch is a pseudoscientific healing method that is neither therapeutic nor involves touch.
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Skeptoid #202: The Non-Mystery of Puma Punku
20/04/2010 Duración: 13minThough some claim the stone structures at Puma Punku were alien, archaeologists find no real mysteries there.
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Skeptoid #201: The Virgin of Guadalupe
13/04/2010 Duración: 15minMexico's Virgin of Guadalupe played an important role in the Catholic colonization of the Americas.
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Skeptoid #200: Buy It!
06/04/2010 Duración: 03minDon't blindly turn to science when you need answers - instead, seek out those who want to sell you something.
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Skeptoid #199: Cargo Cults
30/03/2010 Duración: 12minSome native religious groups in the South Pacific hope to recreate WWII's influx of material goods.
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Skeptoid #198: The Georgia Guidestones
23/03/2010 Duración: 13minDubbed "America's Stonehenge", this granite monument in Georgia appeals to all sorts of conspiracy theorists.
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Skeptoid #197: Listener Feedback Strikes Back
16/03/2010 Duración: 12minAnother perilous dive into the listener feedback files.
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Skeptoid #196: Zeitgeist: The Movie, Myths, and Motivations
09/03/2010 Duración: 12minThe Internet movie Zeitgeist uses dishonesty to make an ideological point that could have easily been made ethically.
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Skeptoid #195: Student Questions: Mosquito Repellent and Einstein's Gestation
02/03/2010 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers more questions sent in by students all around the world.
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Skeptoid #194: The Denver Airport Conspiracy
23/02/2010 Duración: 15minIs the Denver International Airport a headquarters for the New World Order? (Hint: no)