Skeptoid

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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

  • Skeptoid #173: All About Astrology

    29/09/2009 Duración: 16min

    Astrology neither has plausibility nor any test data showing that its predictions are better than random chance.

  • Skeptoid #172: Daylight Saving Time Myths

    22/09/2009 Duración: 11min

    All the reasons you've ever heard for Daylight Saving Time are nonsense. Here is the real one.

  • Skeptoid #171: The Battle of Los Angeles

    15/09/2009 Duración: 12min

    At the beginning of WWII, the American defense forces in Los Angeles fought a battle against a UFO.

  • Skeptoid #170: It's Raining Frogs and Fish

    08/09/2009 Duración: 12min

    Waterspouts have nothing to do with popular stories of frogs and fish falling from the sky.

  • Skeptoid #169: Bride of Listener Feedback

    01/09/2009 Duración: 12min

    More replies to some of Skeptoid's more colorful listener feedback.

  • Skeptoid #168: Decrypting the Mormon Book of Abraham

    25/08/2009 Duración: 13min

    Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith allegedly translated the adventures of Abraham in Egypt.

  • Skeptoid #167: Should Science Debate Pseudoscience?

    18/08/2009 Duración: 12min

    When scientists publicly debate promoters of pseudoscience, they often do more harm than good.

  • Skeptoid #166: Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture

    11/08/2009 Duración: 16min

    Organic agriculture provides no benefits whatsoever over science-based farming.

  • Skeptoid #165: Real or Fictional: Food and Fashion

    04/08/2009 Duración: 15min

    See if you can tell whether these food and fashion products are named after real people or fictitious people.

  • Skeptoid #164: What's Up with the Rosicrucians?

    28/07/2009 Duración: 12min

    Believed by many to be an ancient mystical order, but really just a mail-order New Age literature business.

  • Skeptoid #163: How to Make Skepticism Commercial

    21/07/2009 Duración: 11min

    Critical thinking offers the opposite of what seems to be popular, yet we can still make it commercial.

  • Skeptoid #162: Locally Grown Produce

    14/07/2009 Duración: 13min

    The idea of locally grown produce as nowhere near as green as its proponents seem to think it is.

  • Skeptoid #161: Listener Feedback Episode VIII: No New Hope

    07/07/2009 Duración: 13min

    Some more jabs and punches between Skeptoid and its most vocal listeners.

  • Skeptoid #160: Sarah Palin Is Not Stupid

    30/06/2009 Duración: 11min

    Good arguments often go unused because poor arguments like ad hominems are so much easier.

  • Skeptoid #159: The Mothman Cometh

    23/06/2009 Duración: 11min

    A skeptical look at the Mothman, an alleged prophet of disaster.

  • Skeptoid #158: Student Questions: Swine Flu and Depleted Uranium

    16/06/2009 Duración: 13min

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

  • Skeptoid #157: High Fructose Corn Syrup: Toxic or Tame?

    09/06/2009 Duración: 13min

    A skeptical look at whether high fructose corn syrup is really any worse for you than sugar.

  • Skeptoid #156: Falling into Mel's Hole

    02/06/2009 Duración: 11min

    Mel's Hole is said to be a mysterious bottomless pit in eastern Washington state.

  • Skeptoid #155: NLP: Neuro-linguistic Programming

    26/05/2009 Duración: 12min

    Some regard Neuro-linguistic Programming as a psychotherapy breakthrough, some as a New Age self-help trend.

  • Skeptoid #154: Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier?

    19/05/2009 Duración: 18min

    Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, but others almost certainly did so before him.

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