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 #113: The Most Effective Homeopathy Podcast Ever
08/08/2008 Duración: 10minFor the first time ever, the active ingredients in homeopathic preparations are revealed.
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Skeptoid #112: Genetically Modified Organisms: Jeopardy or Jackpot?
05/08/2008 Duración: 15minDespite the popular fearmongering, GMO technologies promise a boon to agriculture and humanity.
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Skeptoid #111: Should Tibet Be Free?
29/07/2008 Duración: 12minMisinformation and fantasy surrounds the popular Tibet notions.
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Skeptoid #110: Illuminating the Fatima Miracle of the Sun
22/07/2008 Duración: 11minThe pope canonized them, but these three children didn't actually predict anything in 1917.
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Skeptoid #109: Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the Earth?
15/07/2008 Duración: 12minSome people believe that CERN's Large Hadron Collider will create black holes that will destroy the Earth.
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Skeptoid #108: Mystery at Dyatlov Pass
08/07/2008 Duración: 10minA look at one of Russia's most bizarre mysteries of mass death.
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Skeptoid #107: Spy Radio: Numbers Stations
01/07/2008 Duración: 11minA look at mysterious shortwave "numbers stations" around the world.
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Skeptoid #106: King Tut's Curse!
24/06/2008 Duración: 11minA look at the tale, the popular explanation, and the real science behind it.
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Skeptoid #105: When People Talk Backwards
17/06/2008 Duración: 11minSome people believe that your brain encodes its actual meaning in reverse within everything you say.
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Skeptoid #104: Yet More Winning Listener Feedback
10/06/2008 Duración: 12minAnother visit to the endless well of listeners comments and criticisms.
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Skeptoid #103: Should You Take Your Vitamins?
03/06/2008 Duración: 10minVitamin C does nothing to prevent or reduce the severity of colds.
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Skeptoid #102: What You Didn't Know about the Stanford Prison Experiment
27/05/2008 Duración: 10minThe Stanford Prison Experiment, said to have proven that evil environments produce evil behavior, was completely unscientific and unreliable.
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Skeptoid #101: Things I'm Wrong About
20/05/2008 Duración: 12minA look back correcting some of the facts and figures that Skeptoid has gotten wrong.
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Skeptoid #100: Is Peak Oil the End of Civilization?
13/05/2008 Duración: 10minWhen we run out of oil, society will likely peacefully and gradually adapt.
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Skeptoid #99: Reassembling TWA Flight 800
06/05/2008 Duración: 12minTWA Flight 800 was not shot down by US friendly fire.
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Skeptoid #98: The Crystal Skull: Mystical, or Modern?
29/04/2008 Duración: 09minDespite their reputation for mystical powers, crystal skulls are neither ancient nor mysterious.
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Skeptoid #97: The Face on Mars Revealed
22/04/2008 Duración: 10minNew high resolution imagery has proven that this hill on Mars doesn't look quite so much like a carved face after all.
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Skeptoid #96: What's Wrong with The Secret
15/04/2008 Duración: 11minThe Secret teaches that victims are always to blame, and that anyone can have anything simply by wishing.
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Skeptoid #95: Bend Over and Own Your Own Business
08/04/2008 Duración: 11minIf someone wants you to be their salesperson and is calling it a "business opportunity", be very skeptical.
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Skeptoid #94: Fire in the Sky: A Real UFO Abduction?
01/04/2008 Duración: 11minThe evidence shows that Travis Walton's famous story of having been abducted by aliens probably never happened.