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 #860: Illuminating the Hornet Spooklight
Legend has it this ghost light has been spooking people in Missouri for hundreds of years.
00:15:09 |
Tue 29 Nov 2022
Skeptoid #859: How to Spot Fake News
A roundup of easy techniques anyone can employ to better discern accurate news reports from false ones.
00:13:58 |
Tue 22 Nov 2022
Skeptoid #858: Resignation Syndrome
In this bizarre psychiatric condition, healthy children lapse into a coma that may last for years.
00:14:36 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Skeptoid #857: On the Health Benefits of Drinking Alcohol
Some say that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol actually has certain health benefits.
00:14:07 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
Skeptoid #856: A Cavalcade of Corrections
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.
00:15:32 |
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Skeptoid #855: Sniffing for Human Sex Pheromones
Do humans use pheromones to turn each other on? The science so far says... uhh, we have no idea.
00:15:31 |
Tue 25 Oct 2022
Skeptoid #854: The Day Science Was Overthrown
A look at six times when there was a major paradigm shift in science.
00:14:56 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
Skeptoid #853: Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO
This story of alien visitation in Brazil from 1996 claims to be the most convincing proof we have.
00:14:21 |
Tue 11 Oct 2022
Skeptoid #852: Electric Cars and the Power Grid
Opponents of electric cars claim that the power grid can't keep up with the growing demand for electricity.
00:14:39 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
Skeptoid #851: How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You
Is your smartphone eavesdropping on your conversation?
00:14:37 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Skeptoid #850: Ode to the Nightcrawler
Beware of this creepy cryptid, or you might just fall in love with it.
00:06:34 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
Skeptoid #849: Who Really Killed the Electric Car?
Pop culture tells us that a conspiracy is what killed GM's EV1 in 2002. But is an exotic explanation really needed?
00:15:43 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
Skeptoid #848: On the Trail of Papillon
How much truth was there to the prison escape story of Henri Charrière?
00:12:56 |
Tue 06 Sep 2022
Skeptoid #847: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 2
Some more of the episodes where I went in with one idea, and came out with another.
00:13:32 |
Tue 30 Aug 2022
Skeptoid #846: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 1
Some of the episodes where I went in expecting one thing, but found something different.
00:13:51 |
Tue 23 Aug 2022
Skeptoid #845: Seeking the Soviet Battle Mole
The story goes that the Soviet Union had nuclear-powered underground vehicles for waging a whole new kind of war.
00:14:39 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Skeptoid #844: What They're Saying About Electric Cars Now
The arguments made by electric car haters no longer hold up. Time to upgrade.
00:15:28 |
Tue 09 Aug 2022
Skeptoid #843: Pop Quiz: Religious Symbolism
How well do you know your Skeptoid? Today's pop quiz focuses on questions drawn from episodes about world religions.
00:16:47 |
Tue 02 Aug 2022
Skeptoid #842: The Day the UFO Deactivated the Nukes
It's said that in 1967, a UFO once deactivated an entire flight of US nuclear missiles in their silos.
00:15:36 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
Skeptoid #841: Feeling Out the Hairy Hands of Dartmoor
The story goes that in England in 1921, driving a particular stretch of road meant an encounter with a terrifying foe.
00:13:41 |
Tue 19 Jul 2022
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