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 #53: Borley Rectory: the World's Most Haunted House?
05/07/2007 Duración: 13minThis "world's most haunted house" was the invention of an imaginative showman and author.
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Skeptoid #52: Science Magazines Violating Their Own Missions
30/06/2007 Duración: 07minScience magazines continue to undermine themselves by publishing ads for pseudoscientific products.
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Skeptoid #51: Ethanol: Miracle Fuel, or Not?
25/06/2007 Duración: 08minEthanol as a fuel may be carbon neutral, but offers few other benefits.
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Skeptoid #50: How to Identify a "Good" Scientific Journal
15/06/2007 Duración: 10minHere is how to tell whose "scientific journal" article is actually more reputable.
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Skeptoid #49: Unconscious Research of Global Consciousness
10/06/2007 Duración: 12minSome say that the collective emotions of humans can influence electronic hardware.
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Skeptoid #48: The Bible Code: Enigmas for Dummies
05/06/2007 Duración: 11minDespite claims of divine origin, "Bible Codes" are found in every long manuscript, even random text.
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Skeptoid #47: Free Range Chicken and Farm Raised Fish
26/05/2007 Duración: 10minFree range chickens and farm raised fish probably have almost none of the benefits you think they do.
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Skeptoid #46: Support Your Local Reptoid
21/05/2007 Duración: 10minThe conspiracy theory that reptilian beings control our governments has a fascinating history.
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Skeptoid #45: The Importance of Teaching Critical Thinking
16/05/2007 Duración: 08minTeaching critical thinking to students needs to be much more than simply asking the Socratic questions.
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Skeptoid #44: The Truth About Remote Viewing
11/05/2007 Duración: 11minThe psychic technique of remote viewing is consistent with simple, well known magic tricks.
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Skeptoid #43: A Mormon History of the Americas
06/05/2007 Duración: 09minThe Book of Mormon's history of the Americas is full of irreconcilable errors and false archaeology.
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Skeptoid #42: Whacking, Cracking, and Chiropracting
01/05/2007 Duración: 11minDefined in 1895, chiropractic treats imaginary conditions with dangerous manipulations.
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Skeptoid #41: The Alien Invasion of Phoenix, Arizona
26/04/2007 Duración: 11minDespite what many UFOlogists want, the famous Phoenix Lights were not alien spacecraft.
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Skeptoid #40: Neanderthals in Present Day Asia
21/04/2007 Duración: 08minSome claim that a legendary wildman, the Almas, is a population of relict Neanderthals.
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Skeptoid #39: Heating Up to Global Warming
16/04/2007 Duración: 12minWhy everyone needs to start taking global warming more seriously.
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Skeptoid #38: The Marfa Lights: A Real American Mystery
11/04/2007 Duración: 09minNo matter how much we want these Texas ghost lights to be mysterious, it turns out they're all too mundane.
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Skeptoid #37: How to Spot Pseudoscience
06/04/2007 Duración: 13minThis 15-point checklist will help you tell science from pseudoscience.
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Skeptoid #36: Mercury Fillings
01/04/2007 Duración: 11minMercury amalgam fillings do not release toxic levels of mercury into the body, and are harmless.
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Skeptoid #35: Revisionist Darwinism: The Theory That Couldn't Sit Still
27/03/2007 Duración: 09minSome creationists claim that evolutionary theory is invalid because it improves as our knowledge increases.
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Skeptoid #34: Homeopathy: Pure Water or Pure Nonsense?
22/03/2007 Duración: 13minContrary to what many supporters think, homeopathy is neither an herbal nor a natural remedy.