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 #181: The Baigong Pipes
24/11/2009 Duración: 11minModern metal pipes found buried in ancient China are neither pipes nor evidence of ancient alien visitation.
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Skeptoid #180: Vaccine Ingredients
17/11/2009 Duración: 13minThe claims made about the dangerous chemicals in vaccines are all either false or misrepresented.
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Skeptoid #179: The Scole Experiment
10/11/2009 Duración: 12minSaid to be the best evidence yet for the afterlife, the Scole Experiments were actually just a hackneyed performance.
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Skeptoid #178: Student Questions: The Montauk Monster and Bee Sting Therapy
03/11/2009 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers some more questions sent in by students, on a variety of short topics.
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Skeptoid #177: The Bloop
27/10/2009 Duración: 15minThis mysterious sound captured by NOAA hydrophones was not a sea monster.
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Skeptoid #176: Network Marketing
20/10/2009 Duración: 12minCall them Network Marketing, Multilevel Marketing, or MLM, these pyramid schemes are proven not to work.
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Skeptoid #175: Shadow People
13/10/2009 Duración: 13minThese shadowy apparitions we sometimes see can be terrifying, but aren't supernatural.
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Skeptoid #174: More Medical Myths
06/10/2009 Duración: 12minMore myths about the human body that you've always heard, and probably believe.
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Skeptoid #173: All About Astrology
29/09/2009 Duración: 16minAstrology neither has plausibility nor any test data showing that its predictions are better than random chance.
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Skeptoid #172: Daylight Saving Time Myths
22/09/2009 Duración: 11minAll the reasons you've ever heard for Daylight Saving Time are nonsense. Here is the real one.
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Skeptoid #171: The Battle of Los Angeles
15/09/2009 Duración: 12minAt the beginning of WWII, the American defense forces in Los Angeles fought a battle against a UFO.
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Skeptoid #170: It's Raining Frogs and Fish
08/09/2009 Duración: 12minWaterspouts have nothing to do with popular stories of frogs and fish falling from the sky.
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Skeptoid #169: Bride of Listener Feedback
01/09/2009 Duración: 12minMore replies to some of Skeptoid's more colorful listener feedback.
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Skeptoid #168: Decrypting the Mormon Book of Abraham
25/08/2009 Duración: 13minMormon Prophet Joseph Smith allegedly translated the adventures of Abraham in Egypt.
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Skeptoid #167: Should Science Debate Pseudoscience?
18/08/2009 Duración: 12minWhen scientists publicly debate promoters of pseudoscience, they often do more harm than good.
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Skeptoid #166: Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture
11/08/2009 Duración: 16minOrganic agriculture provides no benefits whatsoever over science-based farming.
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Skeptoid #165: Real or Fictional: Food and Fashion
04/08/2009 Duración: 15minSee if you can tell whether these food and fashion products are named after real people or fictitious people.
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Skeptoid #164: What's Up with the Rosicrucians?
28/07/2009 Duración: 12minBelieved by many to be an ancient mystical order, but really just a mail-order New Age literature business.
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Skeptoid #163: How to Make Skepticism Commercial
21/07/2009 Duración: 11minCritical thinking offers the opposite of what seems to be popular, yet we can still make it commercial.
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Skeptoid #162: Locally Grown Produce
14/07/2009 Duración: 13minThe idea of locally grown produce as nowhere near as green as its proponents seem to think it is.