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 #249: Student Questions: Airport X-Rays, Shampoo, and the Moon
Skeptoid answers another round of science questions sent in by students all around the world.
00:12:56 |
Tue 15 Mar 2011
Skeptoid #248: The Exorcism of Anneliese
Exorcisms are a brutal torture ritual with no hope of actually helping a person who believes themselves possessed.
00:13:32 |
Tue 08 Mar 2011
Skeptoid #247: The Miracle of Calanda
This famous story of God once healing an amputee falls apart under historical scrutiny.
00:12:25 |
Tue 01 Mar 2011
Skeptoid #246: Corrections, Errata, Blunders, and Boo-Boos
Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs.
00:12:39 |
Tue 22 Feb 2011
Skeptoid #245: Finding the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Historians actually have a pretty complete picture of what happened to the "missing" Roanoke colonists.
00:12:58 |
Tue 15 Feb 2011
Skeptoid #244: Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter
Atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war would not result in devastating global cooling.
00:11:54 |
Tue 08 Feb 2011
Skeptoid #243: Student Questions: Orbo, EVPs, and Shakespeare
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.
00:12:48 |
Tue 01 Feb 2011
Skeptoid #242: Scientology
The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory.
00:13:54 |
Tue 25 Jan 2011
Skeptoid #241: The Alien Buried in Texas
Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas.
00:12:29 |
Tue 18 Jan 2011
Skeptoid #240: Mystery Spots
Various "gravitational anomalies" around the world have fascinating real science behind them.
00:12:22 |
Tue 11 Jan 2011
Skeptoid #239: Gluten Free Diets
Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people.
00:12:18 |
Tue 04 Jan 2011
Skeptoid #238: More Hollywood Myths
Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors.
00:12:09 |
Tue 28 Dec 2010
Skeptoid #237: Hollywood Myths
Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true.
00:12:01 |
Tue 21 Dec 2010
Skeptoid #236: Whales and Sonar
Navy sonar is claimed to be lethal to whales, but the latest research tells a very different story.
00:13:45 |
Tue 14 Dec 2010
Skeptoid #235: IQ Testing
IQ tests are fundamentally flawed, hopelessly inconsistent, and almost completely useless.
00:14:12 |
Tue 07 Dec 2010
Skeptoid #234: The South Atlantic Anomaly
This mysterious region in the south Atlantic was not responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447.
00:12:12 |
Tue 30 Nov 2010
Skeptoid #233: Student Questions: Bird Gender and Bad Karma
Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students all around the world.
00:10:35 |
Tue 23 Nov 2010
Skeptoid #232: Listener Feedback Rides Again
A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane.
00:11:54 |
Tue 16 Nov 2010
Skeptoid #231: The Mystery of STENDEC
We still don't know the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash.
00:12:47 |
Tue 09 Nov 2010
Skeptoid #230: DDT: Secret Life of a Pesticide
DDT can be both a killer of birds and a savior against malaria. Rarely is a question as black and white as we'd like.
00:14:11 |
Tue 02 Nov 2010
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