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 #169: Bride of Listener Feedback
More replies to some of Skeptoid's more colorful listener feedback.
00:12:17 |
Tue 01 Sep 2009
Skeptoid #168: Decrypting the Mormon Book of Abraham
Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith allegedly translated the adventures of Abraham in Egypt.
00:13:02 |
Tue 25 Aug 2009
Skeptoid #167: Should Science Debate Pseudoscience?
When scientists publicly debate promoters of pseudoscience, they often do more harm than good.
00:12:03 |
Tue 18 Aug 2009
Skeptoid #166: Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture
Organic agriculture provides no benefits whatsoever over science-based farming.
00:16:26 |
Tue 11 Aug 2009
Skeptoid #165: Real or Fictional: Food and Fashion
See if you can tell whether these food and fashion products are named after real people or fictitious people.
00:15:27 |
Tue 04 Aug 2009
Skeptoid #164: What's Up with the Rosicrucians?
Believed by many to be an ancient mystical order, but really just a mail-order New Age literature business.
00:12:46 |
Tue 28 Jul 2009
Skeptoid #163: How to Make Skepticism Commercial
Critical thinking offers the opposite of what seems to be popular, yet we can still make it commercial.
00:11:57 |
Tue 21 Jul 2009
Skeptoid #162: Locally Grown Produce
The idea of locally grown produce as nowhere near as green as its proponents seem to think it is.
00:13:26 |
Tue 14 Jul 2009
Skeptoid #161: Listener Feedback Episode VIII: No New Hope
Some more jabs and punches between Skeptoid and its most vocal listeners.
00:13:19 |
Tue 07 Jul 2009
Skeptoid #160: Sarah Palin Is Not Stupid
Good arguments often go unused because poor arguments like ad hominems are so much easier.
00:11:02 |
Tue 30 Jun 2009
Skeptoid #159: The Mothman Cometh
A skeptical look at the Mothman, an alleged prophet of disaster.
00:11:59 |
Tue 23 Jun 2009
Skeptoid #158: Student Questions: Swine Flu and Depleted Uranium
Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students all around the world.
00:13:40 |
Tue 16 Jun 2009
Skeptoid #157: High Fructose Corn Syrup: Toxic or Tame?
A skeptical look at whether high fructose corn syrup is really any worse for you than sugar.
00:13:14 |
Tue 09 Jun 2009
Skeptoid #156: Falling into Mel's Hole
Mel's Hole is said to be a mysterious bottomless pit in eastern Washington state.
00:11:22 |
Tue 02 Jun 2009
Skeptoid #155: NLP: Neuro-linguistic Programming
Some regard Neuro-linguistic Programming as a psychotherapy breakthrough, some as a New Age self-help trend.
00:12:34 |
Tue 26 May 2009
Skeptoid #154: Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier?
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, but others almost certainly did so before him.
00:18:07 |
Tue 19 May 2009
Skeptoid #153: Revenge of the Listener Feedback
Another peek into the mailbag to see who loves us, and who hates us.
00:12:44 |
Tue 12 May 2009
Skeptoid #152: Attack of the Globsters!
Mysterious blobs of flesh washed up on the world's beaches have been called everything from sea monsters to Cthulhu.
00:13:21 |
Tue 05 May 2009
Skeptoid #151: The Placebo Effect
A look at the placebo effect: What it can do, what it can't do, and what you need to know about it.
00:13:41 |
Tue 28 Apr 2009
Skeptoid #150: Screwed!
A secret recording of an actual meeting of the Illuminati.
00:10:16 |
Tue 21 Apr 2009
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