Skeptoid
The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 1029
- Years Active
- 2006 - 2025
Skeptoid #504: Growing Skeptical of Hair Restoration
As long as people lose their hair, the market will remain flooded with sham remedies.
00:14:12 |
Tue 02 Feb 2016
Skeptoid #503: Bad Science on PBS
The reasons why PBS is so quick to promote pseudoscience informercials during pledge drives.
00:14:04 |
Tue 26 Jan 2016
Skeptoid #502: Listener Feedback: Killing the Comments
Your comments on our decision to remove the comments from Skeptoid episode transcript pages.
00:13:29 |
Tue 19 Jan 2016
Skeptoid #501: Schrodinger's Cat and the Bomb Detector
Whatever you think you know about Schrödinger's famous cat is probably wrong.
00:13:11 |
Tue 12 Jan 2016
Skeptoid #500: A Little Curiosity
If you haven't yet found your curiosity in the first 500 episodes of Skeptoid, find it here.
00:06:53 |
Tue 05 Jan 2016
Skeptoid #499: The Hope Diamond: A Curse Deconstructed
Find out how the obviously false story of a curse came to be associated with this famous diamond.
00:13:20 |
Tue 29 Dec 2015
Skeptoid #498: Did the 1914 Christmas Truce Really Happen?
Popular stories tell of WWI soldiers laying aside their rifles on Christmas 1914. The facts are not quite so simple.
00:12:34 |
Tue 22 Dec 2015
Skeptoid #497: A Skeptical Look at the Rorschach Test
The famous Rorschach inkblot test is not a window into the subconscious, and doesn't tell us anything useful.
00:13:23 |
Tue 15 Dec 2015
Skeptoid #496: The Russian Sleep Experiment
Russian test subjects are said to have done unspeakably horrible things when sleep deprived.
00:13:47 |
Tue 08 Dec 2015
Skeptoid: Bad Skepticism
A new live show from Skeptoid Media: Bad Skepticism!
00:01:15 |
Fri 04 Dec 2015
Skeptoid #495: Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites
The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation.
00:15:21 |
Tue 01 Dec 2015
Skeptoid #494: Black Mold: Peril or Prosaic?
Black mold is commonly believed to harbor many deadly diseases; but in fact removing it is often worse than leaving it.
00:12:17 |
Tue 24 Nov 2015
Skeptoid #493: How Real Is the Stockholm Syndrome?
While the Stockholm syndrome sounds like a mere media buzzword, it does actually sometimes happen.
00:13:30 |
Tue 17 Nov 2015
Skeptoid #492: Pouring Cold Water on Cryotherapy
Questioning whether this new spa treatment provides all the medical benefits it claims.
00:12:59 |
Tue 10 Nov 2015
Skeptoid #491: 420: The Cannabis Code
Myths and competing claims fog the origin of the term 420, a slang code for marijuana.
00:12:46 |
Tue 03 Nov 2015
Skeptoid #490: Deconstructing the Tasaday Tribe
Some say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple.
00:14:00 |
Tue 27 Oct 2015
Skeptoid #489: The Science of X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys
These products advertised in the back of comic books promised improbable feats of science.
00:12:57 |
Tue 20 Oct 2015
Skeptoid #488: Who Was Charles Fort?
This enigmatic author of the strange continues to confound.
00:12:51 |
Tue 13 Oct 2015
Skeptoid #487: About That 1970s Global Cooling...
No, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age.
00:13:03 |
Tue 06 Oct 2015
Skeptoid #486: The Flying Saucer Menace
The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore.
00:13:11 |
Tue 29 Sep 2015
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