Skeptoid

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

The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory.

Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas.

Various "gravitational anomalies" around the world have fascinating real science behind them.

Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people.

Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors.

Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true.

Navy sonar is claimed to be lethal to whales, but the latest research tells a very different story.

IQ tests are fundamentally flawed, hopelessly inconsistent, and almost completely useless.

This mysterious region in the south Atlantic was not responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447.

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

A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane.

We still don't know the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash.

DDT can be both a killer of birds and a savior against malaria. Rarely is a question as black and white as we'd like.

Speed reading classes claim to be able to turbocharge your words per minute. Save your money; it doesn't work.

A few of my favorite moments looking back on 228 Skeptoid episodes.

Although a lot of products promise to boost your immune system, there is actually no such thing.

A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads, but researchers solved it a century ago.

The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is not to plan global domination.

News agencies have long promoted a 2001 red rainfall as alien, but a better explanation was already there.