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 #193: The Faces of Belmez
16/02/2010 Duración: 12minFaces appearing on the floor of a house in Spain were easily faked, yet many still consider them supernatural.
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Skeptoid #192: Ball Lightning
09/02/2010 Duración: 12minEveryone believes in ball lightning, but when we stick to the science, there's probably nothing there.
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Skeptoid #191: Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids?
02/02/2010 Duración: 13minIt's a popular story, but all the evidence tells us that no Jews were in Egypt at the time of the Pyramids.
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Skeptoid #190: The Bell Island Boom
26/01/2010 Duración: 12minThis shattering boom in Newfoundland was more likely a natural phenomenon than a superweapon test.
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Skeptoid #189: Bullshido: Martial Arts Magic
19/01/2010 Duración: 12minSome call it Bullshido: Martial arts tricks like touchless attacks and the Touch of Death.
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Skeptoid #188: Student Questions: String Theory, the Asian Flush, and the Peltzman Effect
12/01/2010 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers some questions sent in by students around the world.
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Skeptoid #187: Emergency Handbook: What to Do When a Friend Loves Woo
05/01/2010 Duración: 12minHow you can help a friend or loved one with a potentially harmful pseudoscientific belief
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Skeptoid #186: More Things I'm Wrong About
29/12/2009 Duración: 12minGoing back over a few previous Skeptoid episodes to correct errors (head is hung in shame).
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Skeptoid #185: Is Barefoot Better?
22/12/2009 Duración: 12minSome advocate that going barefoot is better for the health and strength of your feet.
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Skeptoid #184: The Antikythera Mechanism
15/12/2009 Duración: 12minThis ancient device, 1000 years ahead of its time, neither proves alien visitation nor disproves history.
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Skeptoid #183: The Naga Fireballs
08/12/2009 Duración: 13minThese fireballs actually do rise from the Mekong river each year -- and we know exactly what causes them.
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Skeptoid #182: Listener Feedback X
01/12/2009 Duración: 12minAnother dip into the listener feedback files for Skeptoid.
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Skeptoid #181: The Baigong Pipes
24/11/2009 Duración: 11minModern metal pipes found buried in ancient China are neither pipes nor evidence of ancient alien visitation.
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Skeptoid #180: Vaccine Ingredients
17/11/2009 Duración: 13minThe claims made about the dangerous chemicals in vaccines are all either false or misrepresented.
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Skeptoid #179: The Scole Experiment
10/11/2009 Duración: 12minSaid to be the best evidence yet for the afterlife, the Scole Experiments were actually just a hackneyed performance.
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Skeptoid #178: Student Questions: The Montauk Monster and Bee Sting Therapy
03/11/2009 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers some more questions sent in by students, on a variety of short topics.
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Skeptoid #177: The Bloop
27/10/2009 Duración: 15minThis mysterious sound captured by NOAA hydrophones was not a sea monster.
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Skeptoid #176: Network Marketing
20/10/2009 Duración: 12minCall them Network Marketing, Multilevel Marketing, or MLM, these pyramid schemes are proven not to work.
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Skeptoid #175: Shadow People
13/10/2009 Duración: 13minThese shadowy apparitions we sometimes see can be terrifying, but aren't supernatural.
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Skeptoid #174: More Medical Myths
06/10/2009 Duración: 12minMore myths about the human body that you've always heard, and probably believe.