Skeptoid

I respond to questions and feedback sent in by listeners around the world.

A popular urban legend claims that William Randolph Hearst conspired to make cannabis illegal in the United States.

Some pseudoscience promoters attack the messenger rather than the evidence.

An old tale tells of coffins that jumbled themselves up in a crypt in Barbados.

Two dead bodies were found in Brazil in 1966 with mysterious masks made of lead.

Years after the disaster, some claim that Fukushima radiation is still going to cause widespread death.

A tour of the Earth's biggest, oldest, and most lethal living creatures.

Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students, all of them this week pertaining to popular food pseudoscience.

Stories that outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might have made it back from South America don't hold up.

Hold onto your hats: Growing your hair long will not confer super strength or vitality upon you.

Skeptoid responds to comments sent in by listeners who don't accept that they've been ripped off.

Guess which of these secret military bases around the world are real.

Some say that an early Native American tribe were giant cannibals.

After so many decades, the number of incompatible conspiracy theories about the death of JFK continues to grow.

Despite activist claims, wind turbines are not making anybody sick.

Of all the many claims of Europeans being first to the New World, only one is true.

Some say this extinct Tasmanian marsupial may still roam the forests. The evidence is against them.

A young pilot who disappeared in 1978 might have been having a little fun, Spielberg style.

A line of reasoning named for Socrates helps us help believers in the strange re-examine their beliefs.

Some people who enjoy raw milk also make up false claims that regular milk is more dangerous.