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 #53: Borley Rectory: the World's Most Haunted House?

    05/07/2007 Duración: 13min

    This "world's most haunted house" was the invention of an imaginative showman and author.

  • Skeptoid #52: Science Magazines Violating Their Own Missions

    30/06/2007 Duración: 07min

    Science magazines continue to undermine themselves by publishing ads for pseudoscientific products.

  • Skeptoid #51: Ethanol: Miracle Fuel, or Not?

    25/06/2007 Duración: 08min

    Ethanol as a fuel may be carbon neutral, but offers few other benefits.

  • Skeptoid #50: How to Identify a "Good" Scientific Journal

    15/06/2007 Duración: 10min

    Here is how to tell whose "scientific journal" article is actually more reputable.

  • Skeptoid #49: Unconscious Research of Global Consciousness

    10/06/2007 Duración: 12min

    Some say that the collective emotions of humans can influence electronic hardware.

  • Skeptoid #48: The Bible Code: Enigmas for Dummies

    05/06/2007 Duración: 11min

    Despite claims of divine origin, "Bible Codes" are found in every long manuscript, even random text.

  • Skeptoid #47: Free Range Chicken and Farm Raised Fish

    26/05/2007 Duración: 10min

    Free range chickens and farm raised fish probably have almost none of the benefits you think they do.

  • Skeptoid #46: Support Your Local Reptoid

    21/05/2007 Duración: 10min

    The conspiracy theory that reptilian beings control our governments has a fascinating history.

  • Skeptoid #45: The Importance of Teaching Critical Thinking

    16/05/2007 Duración: 08min

    Teaching critical thinking to students needs to be much more than simply asking the Socratic questions.

  • Skeptoid #44: The Truth About Remote Viewing

    11/05/2007 Duración: 11min

    The psychic technique of remote viewing is consistent with simple, well known magic tricks.

  • Skeptoid #43: A Mormon History of the Americas

    06/05/2007 Duración: 09min

    The Book of Mormon's history of the Americas is full of irreconcilable errors and false archaeology.

  • Skeptoid #42: Whacking, Cracking, and Chiropracting

    01/05/2007 Duración: 11min

    Defined in 1895, chiropractic treats imaginary conditions with dangerous manipulations.

  • Skeptoid #41: The Alien Invasion of Phoenix, Arizona

    26/04/2007 Duración: 11min

    Despite what many UFOlogists want, the famous Phoenix Lights were not alien spacecraft.

  • Skeptoid #40: Neanderthals in Present Day Asia

    21/04/2007 Duración: 08min

    Some claim that a legendary wildman, the Almas, is a population of relict Neanderthals.

  • Skeptoid #39: Heating Up to Global Warming

    16/04/2007 Duración: 12min

    Why everyone needs to start taking global warming more seriously.

  • Skeptoid #38: The Marfa Lights: A Real American Mystery

    11/04/2007 Duración: 09min

    No matter how much we want these Texas ghost lights to be mysterious, it turns out they're all too mundane.

  • Skeptoid #37: How to Spot Pseudoscience

    06/04/2007 Duración: 13min

    This 15-point checklist will help you tell science from pseudoscience.

  • Skeptoid #36: Mercury Fillings

    01/04/2007 Duración: 11min

    Mercury amalgam fillings do not release toxic levels of mercury into the body, and are harmless.

  • Skeptoid #35: Revisionist Darwinism: The Theory That Couldn't Sit Still

    27/03/2007 Duración: 09min

    Some creationists claim that evolutionary theory is invalid because it improves as our knowledge increases.

  • Skeptoid #34: Homeopathy: Pure Water or Pure Nonsense?

    22/03/2007 Duración: 13min

    Contrary to what many supporters think, homeopathy is neither an herbal nor a natural remedy.

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