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 #863: Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Woo
20/12/2022 Duración: 14minThe latest form of magnet therapy promises to cure everything from headaches to cancer.
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Skeptoid #862: Human Mosquito Magnets
13/12/2022 Duración: 13minIs it true that mosquitoes like some people better than others?
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Skeptoid #861: Marketing with Logical Fallacies
06/12/2022 Duración: 15minA look at some of the logically fallacious statements used to sell many of today's most popular products.
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The Big UFO Update!
29/11/2022 Duración: 03minThe latest news, and some clips, from my indie documentary The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See!
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Skeptoid #860: Illuminating the Hornet Spooklight
29/11/2022 Duración: 15minLegend has it this ghost light has been spooking people in Missouri for hundreds of years.
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Skeptoid #859: How to Spot Fake News
22/11/2022 Duración: 13minA roundup of easy techniques anyone can employ to better discern accurate news reports from false ones.
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Skeptoid #858: Resignation Syndrome
15/11/2022 Duración: 14minIn this bizarre psychiatric condition, healthy children lapse into a coma that may last for years.
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Skeptoid #857: On the Health Benefits of Drinking Alcohol
08/11/2022 Duración: 14minSome say that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol actually has certain health benefits.
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Skeptoid #856: A Cavalcade of Corrections
01/11/2022 Duración: 15minSkeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.
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Skeptoid #855: Sniffing for Human Sex Pheromones
25/10/2022 Duración: 15minDo humans use pheromones to turn each other on? The science so far says... uhh, we have no idea.
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Skeptoid #854: The Day Science Was Overthrown
18/10/2022 Duración: 14minA look at six times when there was a major paradigm shift in science.
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Skeptoid #853: Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO
11/10/2022 Duración: 14minThis story of alien visitation in Brazil from 1996 claims to be the most convincing proof we have.
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Skeptoid #852: Electric Cars and the Power Grid
04/10/2022 Duración: 14minOpponents of electric cars claim that the power grid can't keep up with the growing demand for electricity.
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Skeptoid #851: How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You
27/09/2022 Duración: 14minIs your smartphone eavesdropping on your conversation?
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Skeptoid #850: Ode to the Nightcrawler
20/09/2022 Duración: 06minBeware of this creepy cryptid, or you might just fall in love with it.
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Skeptoid #849: Who Really Killed the Electric Car?
13/09/2022 Duración: 15minPop culture tells us that a conspiracy is what killed GM's EV1 in 2002. But is an exotic explanation really needed?
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Skeptoid #848: On the Trail of Papillon
06/09/2022 Duración: 12minHow much truth was there to the prison escape story of Henri Charrière?
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Skeptoid #847: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 2
30/08/2022 Duración: 13minSome more of the episodes where I went in with one idea, and came out with another.
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Skeptoid #846: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 1
23/08/2022 Duración: 13minSome of the episodes where I went in expecting one thing, but found something different.
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Skeptoid #845: Seeking the Soviet Battle Mole
16/08/2022 Duración: 14minThe story goes that the Soviet Union had nuclear-powered underground vehicles for waging a whole new kind of war.