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 #141: Listener Feedback 6: I Want to Believe
17/02/2009 Duración: 12minMore fun from the listener feedback files.
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Skeptoid #140: The Bosnian Pyramids
10/02/2009 Duración: 14minBelief that this hill in Bosnia is an ancient pyramid is driven by New Age woo and pathological science.
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Skeptoid #139: Alkaline Water Systems: Change Your Water, Change Your Bank Balance
03/02/2009 Duración: 13minSellers of new-age water treatment products charge outrageous prices for a product with zero plausibility.
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Skeptoid #138: Is He Real, or Is He Fictional?
27/01/2009 Duración: 14minGuess whether these popular characters from history were real or fictional.
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Skeptoid #137: The Angel of Mons
20/01/2009 Duración: 11minThe facts behind the story that a heavenly host saved a small group of British from a large German force in WWI.
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Skeptoid #136: Student Questions: Light Therapy, the Bermuda Triangle, and Isaac Newton
13/01/2009 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers another round of questions submitted by students.
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Skeptoid #135: The Rendlesham Forest UFO
06/01/2009 Duración: 16minHard to believe, but it wasn't space aliens that caused blinking lights in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
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Skeptoid #134: Who Is Closed Minded, the Skeptic or the Believer?
30/12/2008 Duración: 12minSkeptics and believers both tend to accuse each other of closed-mindedness in their thinking.
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Skeptoid #133: Chasing the Min Min Light
23/12/2008 Duración: 11minThe Australian outback's mysterious jack o' lantern has sparked some good stories, but some even better science.
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Skeptoid #132: The Sargasso Sea and the Pacific Garbage Patch
16/12/2008 Duración: 10minWe cast our skeptical eye upon two vast hazards to navigation said to lurk in the centers of the two great oceans.
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Skeptoid #131: The Bohemian Club Conspiracy
09/12/2008 Duración: 13minWealthy and powerful men gather annually at the mysterious Bohemian Grove -- but not to plot global domination.
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Skeptoid #130: Space Properties for Sale
02/12/2008 Duración: 09minIf they're offering extraterrestrial real estate or star-naming rights for sale, chances are it's a ripoff.
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Skeptoid #129: The Oak Island Money Pit
25/11/2008 Duración: 11minThis mysterious treasure pit on a Nova Scotia island has a fascinating natural explanation.
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Skeptoid #128: Student Questions: the Mozart Effect, Quantum Theory, and AIDS
18/11/2008 Duración: 11minSkeptoid answers some questions sent in by students.
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Skeptoid #127: The Truth about Aspartame
11/11/2008 Duración: 13minThe artificial sweetener aspartame is falsely accused of being the cause of nearly every disease.
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Skeptoid #126: The Incorruptibles
04/11/2008 Duración: 11minWe turn our skeptical eye on claims of incorruptibility - bodies that do not decay after death.
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Skeptoid #125: Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience
28/10/2008 Duración: 13minA critical look at the pseudoscientific antics of some of today's celebrities.
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Skeptoid #124: Betty and Barney Hill: The Original UFO Abduction
21/10/2008 Duración: 14minA critical look at the original UFO abduction story, that so many people take for granted.
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Skeptoid #123: Listener Feedback Reloaded
14/10/2008 Duración: 09minMore fun from the inbox, responding to listener feedback.
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Skeptoid #122: HAARP Myths
07/10/2008 Duración: 13minA close look at HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and the claim that it's a superweapon.