Skeptoid

A look at the tale, the popular explanation, and the real science behind it.

Some people believe that your brain encodes its actual meaning in reverse within everything you say.

Another visit to the endless well of listeners comments and criticisms.

Vitamin C does nothing to prevent or reduce the severity of colds.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, said to have proven that evil environments produce evil behavior, was completely unscientific and unreliable.

A look back correcting some of the facts and figures that Skeptoid has gotten wrong.

When we run out of oil, society will likely peacefully and gradually adapt.

TWA Flight 800 was not shot down by US friendly fire.

Despite their reputation for mystical powers, crystal skulls are neither ancient nor mysterious.

New high resolution imagery has proven that this hill on Mars doesn't look quite so much like a carved face after all.

The Secret teaches that victims are always to blame, and that anyone can have anything simply by wishing.

If someone wants you to be their salesperson and is calling it a "business opportunity", be very skeptical.

The evidence shows that Travis Walton's famous story of having been abducted by aliens probably never happened.

The real science behind the events predicted in 2012.

There are many good reasons why environmentalists are turning again to nuclear power for the future.

My responses to some of the more "out there" feedback I've received.

An exploration of the mysterious rumble that some people hear all over the world.

My thoughts on a company that sells useless pseudoscientific hardware to an ALS victim.

Unlike what's said in highly dramatized Hollywood shockumentaries, fast food is not especially unhealthy.

Cranks love to make the claim on YouTube, but you cannot run your car on water.