Skeptoid

My list of the worst offenders on the web in the promotion of scientific and factual misinformation.

Said to have been haunting New Jersey for nearly 300 years, this alleged creature has its actual origins in politics.

Most election methods are fundamentally broken, but can be fixed with any of a number of tweaks.

The claim that someone else wrote Shakespeare's works is popular, but virtually indefensible.

Why it's impossible for a wooden vessel the size of Noah's Ark to be seaworthy.

Both brainwashing and its opposite, deprogramming, are equally mythological.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.

The story of a living beast in Scotland's Glamis Castle may have a nugget of truth.

There are lots of reasons to move away from fossil fuels, but the supposed hazards of fracking just aren't among them.

Another batch of listener emails answered and dissected. And served.

Demonizing radio transmitters as carcinogenic is popular, but is not supported by any reasonable science.

We are not alone in the galaxy. Here's why that doesn't mean we've been visited by anyone.

There is no plausible reason to think a conspiracy of Jews plans to take over the world's banks and governments.

Some seek a natural or alien explanation for these aerial lights in Norway. Turns out the true cause is much simpler.

Science shows that the Yeti of the Himalayas is almost certainly not a real creature.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students.

Greek philosopher Zeno apparently proved that movement was impossible with a few simple paradoxes.

Prepare to have your mind blown by these listener emails from conspiracy theorists.

Therapies intended to help gays become straight don't work.

We usually dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy people; but that doesn't tell the whole story.