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 #863: Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Woo

    20/12/2022 Duración: 14min

    The latest form of magnet therapy promises to cure everything from headaches to cancer.

  • Skeptoid #862: Human Mosquito Magnets

    13/12/2022 Duración: 13min

    Is it true that mosquitoes like some people better than others?

  • Skeptoid #861: Marketing with Logical Fallacies

    06/12/2022 Duración: 15min

    A look at some of the logically fallacious statements used to sell many of today's most popular products.

  • The Big UFO Update!

    29/11/2022 Duración: 03min

    The latest news, and some clips, from my indie documentary The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See!

  • Skeptoid #860: Illuminating the Hornet Spooklight

    29/11/2022 Duración: 15min

    Legend has it this ghost light has been spooking people in Missouri for hundreds of years.

  • Skeptoid #859: How to Spot Fake News

    22/11/2022 Duración: 13min

    A roundup of easy techniques anyone can employ to better discern accurate news reports from false ones.

  • Skeptoid #858: Resignation Syndrome

    15/11/2022 Duración: 14min

    In this bizarre psychiatric condition, healthy children lapse into a coma that may last for years.

  • Skeptoid #857: On the Health Benefits of Drinking Alcohol

    08/11/2022 Duración: 14min

    Some say that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol actually has certain health benefits.

  • Skeptoid #856: A Cavalcade of Corrections

    01/11/2022 Duración: 15min

    Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.

  • Skeptoid #855: Sniffing for Human Sex Pheromones

    25/10/2022 Duración: 15min

    Do humans use pheromones to turn each other on? The science so far says... uhh, we have no idea.

  • Skeptoid #854: The Day Science Was Overthrown

    18/10/2022 Duración: 14min

    A look at six times when there was a major paradigm shift in science.

  • Skeptoid #853: Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO

    11/10/2022 Duración: 14min

    This story of alien visitation in Brazil from 1996 claims to be the most convincing proof we have.

  • Skeptoid #852: Electric Cars and the Power Grid

    04/10/2022 Duración: 14min

    Opponents of electric cars claim that the power grid can't keep up with the growing demand for electricity.

  • Skeptoid #851: How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You

    27/09/2022 Duración: 14min

    Is your smartphone eavesdropping on your conversation?

  • Skeptoid #850: Ode to the Nightcrawler

    20/09/2022 Duración: 06min

    Beware of this creepy cryptid, or you might just fall in love with it.

  • Skeptoid #849: Who Really Killed the Electric Car?

    13/09/2022 Duración: 15min

    Pop culture tells us that a conspiracy is what killed GM's EV1 in 2002. But is an exotic explanation really needed?

  • Skeptoid #848: On the Trail of Papillon

    06/09/2022 Duración: 12min

    How much truth was there to the prison escape story of Henri Charrière?

  • Skeptoid #847: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 2

    30/08/2022 Duración: 13min

    Some more of the episodes where I went in with one idea, and came out with another.

  • Skeptoid #846: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 1

    23/08/2022 Duración: 13min

    Some of the episodes where I went in expecting one thing, but found something different.

  • Skeptoid #845: Seeking the Soviet Battle Mole

    16/08/2022 Duración: 14min

    The story goes that the Soviet Union had nuclear-powered underground vehicles for waging a whole new kind of war.

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