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 #459: Listener Feedback: The Environment
24/03/2015 Duración: 12minBrian responds to listener feedback on past episodes about environmental topics.
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Skeptoid #458: Science Fails
17/03/2015 Duración: 14minScience has let you down time after time, and that's one reason why it gets better and better.
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Skeptoid #457: Forgetting the Alamo
10/03/2015 Duración: 20minThe myths and facts behind the events that made the Alamo famous reveal it may not be worth remembering much.
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Skeptoid #456: Cattle Mutilation
03/03/2015 Duración: 13minCow mutilation may have a simpler explanation than alien experimentation.
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Skeptoid #455: Ghost Photography
24/02/2015 Duración: 16minThe history of ghost photography and its many problems as evidence.
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Skeptoid #454: GMO Facts and Fiction
17/02/2015 Duración: 14minSee if you know how many of these GMO "facts" are right.
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Skeptoid #453: Cooking Myths
10/02/2015 Duración: 15minAs the busiest part of the house, the kitchen has collected more folklore than any other room in it.
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Skeptoid #452: The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica
03/02/2015 Duración: 09minIn Costa Rica, mysterious stone spheres left behind by the country's previous inhabitants seem to defy explanation.
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Skeptoid #451: Ideomotor Response
27/01/2015 Duración: 14minThe Ideomotor Response underlies a number of occult phenomena and alt-med practices.
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Skeptoid #450: Robert Ripley: Believe Him... or Not?
20/01/2015 Duración: 12minWe examine Believe it or Not! and determine if we can believe this stuff.
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Skeptoid #449: Ancient Astronauts
13/01/2015 Duración: 14minDid aliens visit the ancient Earth and inspire human cultures? Some people claim so.
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Skeptoid #448: The Columbus Poltergeist
06/01/2015 Duración: 17minThis poltergeist in Columbus Ohio turned out to be, like nearly all such cases, a mischievous teen.
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Skeptoid #447: Listener Feedback: Cryptozoology
30/12/2014 Duración: 13minWe respond to questions about cryptids asked by listeners to our recent episodes.
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Skeptoid #446: The Fallibility of Memory
23/12/2014 Duración: 12minWe are a story our brain tells itself. And our brains are habitual liars.
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Skeptoid #445: Megalodon Myths
16/12/2014 Duración: 15minThe Discovery Channel wants you to think that a giant prehistoric shark may still swim our oceans.
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Skeptoid #444: Myths of Alcatraz
09/12/2014 Duración: 15minAlcatraz Island is veiled in the fog of myth.
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Skeptoid #443: SS Iron Mountain
02/12/2014 Duración: 11minThis large riverboat is said to have vanished without a trace on the Mississippi River in 1872.
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Skeptoid #442: Griffins
25/11/2014 Duración: 11minGriffins, considered absurd mythological beasts today, were actually our first attempt to explain fossils.
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Skeptoid #441: The Skookum Cast
18/11/2014 Duración: 13minThe first "full body cast" of an alleged Bigfoot left many experts with a different impression.
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Skeptoid #440: That Elusive Fibromyalgia
11/11/2014 Duración: 13minSome say fibromyalgia is a real disease, while others question the diagnosis.