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 #421: Student Questions: Internet Tracking and Plasma Cosmology
01/07/2014 Duración: 13minSkeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.
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Skeptoid #420: Hillary vs. Mallory: The First to Everest
24/06/2014 Duración: 13minFrom the evidence we have, it seems clear there's no way Mallory could have beaten Hillary to the summit of Everest.
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Skeptoid #419: Slacktivism: Raising Awareness
17/06/2014 Duración: 13minClicking a "Like" button on a web site is not only useless, it may actually be counterproductive.
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Skeptoid #418: Left Brained, Right Brained, or Hare Brained?
10/06/2014 Duración: 13minPop psychology tells us we're all either left brain or right brain dominant, a concept with no scientific support.
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Skeptoid #417: The Riddle of Flight 19
03/06/2014 Duración: 13minThe 1945 disappearance of five fighter planes in the Bermuda Triangle was real, but hardly how it's portrayed.
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Skeptoid #416: 5 Conspiracy Theories that Turned Out to Be True... Maybe?
27/05/2014 Duración: 14minSkeptoid listeners are always asking for conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Here are the best I found.
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Skeptoid #415: In Which I Am the Very Picture of Error Personified
20/05/2014 Duración: 12minSkeptoid corrects another round of mistakes made in previous episodes.
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Skeptoid #414: Killing Princess Diana
13/05/2014 Duración: 13minSome say the death of Princess Diana in 1997 was actually a murder plotted by her government.
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Skeptoid #413: 3-7-77: The Montana Vigilance Code
06/05/2014 Duración: 14minThis mysterious code representing vigilante justice has a history steeped in mystery.
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Skeptoid #412: Animal Predictors: Psychic, Sensitive, or Silly?
29/04/2014 Duración: 13minDespite many examples being promoted in the press, animals do not have psychic powers.
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Skeptoid #411: Your Body's Alleged Energy Fields
22/04/2014 Duración: 13minThere is no such thing as your body's energy field.
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Skeptoid #410: The Black Eyed Kids
15/04/2014 Duración: 12minAn urban legend says that children with completely black eyes go around trying to be allowed inside.
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Skeptoid #409: Oil Pulling
08/04/2014 Duración: 13minThis New Age alternative health fad is not, in fact, based on ayurveda.
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04/04/2014 Duración: 01minDonations to Skeptoid Media are now fully tax deductible.
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Skeptoid #408: 15 Phreaky Phobias
01/04/2014 Duración: 13minPhobias are irrational, yet the brain surprisingly has a good reason for creating them.
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Skeptoid #407: The Death of Mad King Ludwig
25/03/2014 Duración: 12minWhat we do and do not know about the mysterious death of Bavaria's Mad King who built castles like Neuschwanstein.
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Skeptoid #406: The Disappearance of Glenn Miller
18/03/2014 Duración: 12minThis popular bandleader disappeared over the English Channel during World War II, and here's what happened.
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Skeptoid #405: Aromatherapy: Sniffing Essential Oils
11/03/2014 Duración: 13minIf you're expecting the pleasant aroma of certain flowers and herbs to be a medical treatment, you may be disappointed.
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Skeptoid #404: The Boggy Creek Monster
04/03/2014 Duración: 13minThe Boggy Creek Monster captured our imaginations, but its true story is even more fascinating.
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Skeptoid #403: Out of Place Artifacts
25/02/2014 Duración: 13minSome objects found around the world seem to defy rational explanation.