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 #223: The Frog in the Stone
14/09/2010 Duración: 13minStories of living frogs being found encased in solid rock have a more interesting (and reality-based) explanation.
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Skeptoid #222: Toil and Trouble: The Curse of Macbeth
07/09/2010 Duración: 12minThe Curse of Macbeth should make Shakespeare's play too dangerous to perform, but science tells us for sure.
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Skeptoid #221: The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
31/08/2010 Duración: 13minA critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
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Skeptoid #220: Yonaguni Monument: The Japanese Atlantis
24/08/2010 Duración: 12minA look at a massive stone structure off the coast of Japan, said to be a manmade pyramid.
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Skeptoid #219: Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrids
17/08/2010 Duración: 13minJosef Stalin did not order the creation of an army of half-ape, half-human hybrids.
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Skeptoid #218: The Astronauts and the Aliens
10/08/2010 Duración: 13minA close look at some of the stories of UFOs said to have been reported by NASA astronauts.
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Skeptoid #217: Some New Logical Fallacies
03/08/2010 Duración: 12minSkeptoid looks at some newer logical fallacies, often used in place of sound arguments.
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Skeptoid #216: The Things We Eat...
27/07/2010 Duración: 12minA look at what's really in food reveals the foolishness of the idea of "good food" and "bad food".
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Skeptoid #215: Listener Feedback Resurrection
20/07/2010 Duración: 13minMore vitriol from the Skeptoid inbox exposed.
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Skeptoid #214: Student Questions: Gold as an Investment and FEMA Coffins
13/07/2010 Duración: 12minAnother round of answering questions sent in by students everywhere.
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Skeptoid #213: Mozart and Salieri
06/07/2010 Duración: 14minShockingly, Hollywood movies don't make us all history experts, and Salieri didn't murder Mozart.
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Skeptoid #212: Things About Which I Have In Error Been
29/06/2010 Duración: 12minMore additions to the corrections and errata files for Skeptoid.
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Skeptoid #211: Attack on Pearl Harbor
22/06/2010 Duración: 14minThe American government did not have advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and did not allow it to happen.
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Skeptoid #210: The North American Union
15/06/2010 Duración: 13minThe United States, Canada, and Mexico are not planning to merge into a single huge police state.
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Skeptoid #209: The Lost Ship of the Desert
08/06/2010 Duración: 11minThe facts behind tall tales from the American southwest of ships found in the middle of the desert.
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Skeptoid #208: The Westall '66 UFO
01/06/2010 Duración: 15min200 students watched a strange craft fly near their school in Australia in 1966 -- or so the story goes.
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Skeptoid #207: Dinosaurs Among Us
25/05/2010 Duración: 12minAll around the world, ancient art depicts creatures that some interpret as dinosaurs. Don't believe it.
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Skeptoid #206: Morgellons Disease
18/05/2010 Duración: 12minIn this newly described condition, some patients report strange plastic fibers growing from their skin.
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Skeptoid #205: Beyond Listener Feedback
11/05/2010 Duración: 12minAnother trip to the Listener Feedback files, including my favorite yet.
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Skeptoid #204: Mengele's Boys from Brazil
04/05/2010 Duración: 12minA town in Brazil has an unusually high twin rate, but not because Josef Mengele survived and did experiments there.