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 #479: Chemicals
11/08/2015 Duración: 15minChemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything.
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Skeptoid #478: Listener Feedback: Natural History
04/08/2015 Duración: 12minToday we're going to answer questions sent in by listeners pertaining to episodes having to do with our natural world.
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Skeptoid #477: Wag the Dogman
28/07/2015 Duración: 13minThey say that a half-canine cryptid stalks the woods of Northern Michigan. Are they right?
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Skeptoid #476: The Chess-Playing Mechanical Turk
21/07/2015 Duración: 12minAn overview of the amazing chess playing robot of the 1700s.
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Skeptoid #475: Listener Feedback: History vs. Pseudohistory
14/07/2015 Duración: 12minBrian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes.
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Skeptoid #474: Solfeggio Frequencies
07/07/2015 Duración: 13minCertain specific sonic frequencies are not the key to love, intuition, or spiritual order.
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Skeptoid #473: The Loveland Frog
30/06/2015 Duración: 14minA series of sightings of a frog-like humanoid in the suburb of Loveland, Ohio prompts an enduring folkloric legend.
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Skeptoid #472: Lysenko and Lesser Science Grifters
23/06/2015 Duración: 15minTrofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology.
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Skeptoid #471: Male Circumcision
16/06/2015 Duración: 16minInfant male circumcision remains common in the United States. Today we look at the reasons and the implications.
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Skeptoid #470: Marijuana
09/06/2015 Duración: 15minIn the last 50 years, marijuana has gone from menace to medicine. Which is it?
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Skeptoid #469: Jade Helm 15
02/06/2015 Duración: 14minConspiracy theory that a military training exercise is going to lead to martial law.
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Skeptoid #468: Listener Feedback: Fads
26/05/2015 Duración: 13minBrian responds to some listener feedback concerning the topic of fads.
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Skeptoid #467: Baby Myths
19/05/2015 Duración: 17minA look at some common myths about babies and children.
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Skeptoid #466: 5 Answers for Creationists
12/05/2015 Duración: 14minCreationists have presented 5 questions they don't think 'evolutionists' can answer. Here are some answers.
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Skeptoid #465: Agenda 21
05/05/2015 Duración: 14minA look at the conspiratorial hysteria and sensationalism surrounding the United Nations' Agenda 21.
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Skeptoid #464: The Lake Michigan Triangle
28/04/2015 Duración: 12minThere is a region in the Great Lakes where, some say, ships and planes mysteriously disappear. Not so much.
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Skeptoid #463: Transgender: Fact or Fiction?
21/04/2015 Duración: 15minThe Internet believes a lot of things about transgender people, but much of it isn't true.
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Skeptoid #462: Satanic Ritual Abuse
14/04/2015 Duración: 17minThe history of claims that secret Satanic cults are abusing children.
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Skeptoid #461: Cryptids That Turned Out To Be Real
07/04/2015 Duración: 15minSometimes speculative animals do turn out to be real, but that still doesn't validate cryptozoology as a science.
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Skeptoid #460: Plastic Bags
31/03/2015 Duración: 12minDeciding whether you want "paper or plastic" at the supermarket turns out to be a remarkably complex choice.