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 #322: Negative Calorie Food Myths
07/08/2012 Duración: 12minNegative calorie foods, said to require more energy to digest than they provide, are a popular food fad.
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Skeptoid #321: Skinwalkers
31/07/2012 Duración: 14minNavajo Skinwalkers were said to be able to shapeshift into animals, but don't worry, it's just a tall tale.
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Skeptoid #320: The Suicide Dogs of Overtoun Bridge
24/07/2012 Duración: 12minThere's a bridge in Scotland where dogs are said to deliberately commit suicide.
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Skeptoid #319: Student Questions: Food Woo and Iron Man at the Airport
17/07/2012 Duración: 11minSkeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.
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Skeptoid #318: The Loch Ness Monster
10/07/2012 Duración: 13minThe world's most famous cryptid is said to swim in Scotland's most famous loch.
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Skeptoid #317: Attack of the Nanobots!
03/07/2012 Duración: 14minA look at the belief that nanotechnology may result in an army of self-replicating machines that consume society.
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New Skeptoid Books
28/06/2012 Duración: 01minSkeptoid announces two new paperbacks: "Astronauts, Aliens, and Ape-Men" plus "The Secret of the Gypsy Queen".
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Skeptoid #316: Al-Ghazali and Arab-Islamic Science
26/06/2012 Duración: 13minSome say that Persian theologian al-Ghazali was solely responsible for the end of the Golden Age of science.
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Skeptoid #315: The Tehran 1976 UFO
19/06/2012 Duración: 15minDeclassified military documents show that Iranian fighter planes engaged a UFO in 1976. Here's what's actually known.
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Skeptoid #314: Botches and Bungles
12/06/2012 Duración: 11minSkeptoid goes back and corrects some errors from previous episodes.
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Skeptoid #313: Area 51 Facts and Fiction
05/06/2012 Duración: 13minNow that Area 51 has been declassified, we finally have proof that what they did had nothing to do with aliens.
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Skeptoid #312: Student Questions: Marauding Mammoths and Queen Elizabeth the Man
29/05/2012 Duración: 12minSkeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.
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Skeptoid #311: Deconstructing the Rothschild Conspiracy
22/05/2012 Duración: 15minSome believe that world governments and economies are secretly controlled by the Rothschild banking family.
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Skeptoid #310: Left Handed Myths and Facts
15/05/2012 Duración: 14minMany popular anecdotes tell how and why some people are left-handed, but the true facts are even more interesting.
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Skeptoid #309: The Science and Politics of Global Warming
08/05/2012 Duración: 13minHow global warming became the poster boy for failed science communication.
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Skeptoid #308: Picnic at Hanging Rock
01/05/2012 Duración: 12minAlthough the book and movie convinced many that this story actually happened, it is purely a fictional invention.
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Skeptoid #307: The Siberian Hell Sounds
24/04/2012 Duración: 13minRussian scientists are said to have drilled a borehole that broke into hell and released the screams of the damned.
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Skeptoid #306: Listener Feedback XX
17/04/2012 Duración: 12minSkeptoid dips into the feedback mailbag to respond to comments from listeners.
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Skeptoid #305: I Can't Believe They Did That: Human Guinea Pigs
10/04/2012 Duración: 13minA look at some of history's most famous scientists who experimented upon themselves.
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Skeptoid #304: Catching Jack the Ripper
03/04/2012 Duración: 13minA look at what is and isn't known about history's most infamous serial killer.