Skeptoid

This famous 1964 UFO sighting by a New Mexico police officer has several interesting explanations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Let's have a look at the traits that define a crank, to make sure your new hero isn't one. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Through their constant promotion of false history, TV networks may have done Amelia Earhart's legacy irreparable harm. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Grand Canyon is millions of years old, not thousands; despite the efforts of Young Earthers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We analyze some of your stories of precognitive experiences. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How likely is the most common type of UFO report to be an alien spacecraft? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Here are the podcast episodes with conclusions that surprised me the most (part 2). Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Here are the podcast episodes with conclusions that surprised me the most (part 1). Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A study of how a conspiracy theory as absurd as "There is no Finland" can even exist. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

False pregnancies are not only real, they're probably more complex than you imagined. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This sideshow attraction convinced a few real scientists that it was an actual ape-man. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We take a look at some more of the most exciting space missions, past, present, and future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Three simple steps anyone can follow to learn to tell what's true and what's not. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

I respond to some listener feedback that enhances some recent episodes of the show. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Those stories about children raised by animals probably aren't what you've been led to believe. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A miniature of all China's waterways in liquid mercury is said to be at the heart of the First Emperor's tomb. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Comparing the actual evidence to the Canadian claim of best evidence for alien visitation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid issues another round of corrections to past episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The unexpected facts behind this famous ghost story from the 1970s. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Rhinos are still being killed for their horns, but probably not for the reasons you thought. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Popular stories claim Beethoven died of lead poisoning, but the science so far doesn't hold up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some claim that certain common false memories are evidence for alternate realities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Deconstructing a wild tale about a Nazi military base deep inside Antarctica. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers another round of listener feedback, keeping the show on the straight and narrow. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

These mighty Norse warriors fought with a frenzy that seems all but inexplicable. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say a marvelous cave of Egyptian wonders is hidden in the Grand Canyon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

These next-generation reactors have attracted a nearly cultish following. Here are the real facts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Here are the most likely ways that your credit card got stolen, and how you can prevent it in the future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The facts, fiction, and real risk to you of all these high-profile data breaches online. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The world's only unsolved hijacking case is filled with misinformation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A roundup of the most exciting and important space missions you really need to know about. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In 1944, a strange night prowler is believed to have made poison gas attacks in Illinois. Here's what we know. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The two most basic Smoking Guns proving that carbon from fossil fuels is warming the Earth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More mythology than fact surrounds this enigmatic figure from martial arts films. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Published accounts tell of a mysterious fighter plane that came into Pearl Harbor a year after the Japanese attack. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Genetically, race does not exist; but there are still inconvenient places for it in science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

You always thought the Wright Brothers were the first to fly a plane? Well, it depends what country you're from. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some nifty extra information for a few recent episodes supplied by listeners in the know. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sometimes the best way to scrutinize an open access journal is to hoax them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pop culture tells us that some people have photographic memories, but the truth is quite different. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The facts behind an urban legend claiming a nuclear war in India some 12,000 years ago. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Feng shui is much more than just a debunked way to magically arrange furniture. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say that exposure to small amounts of dangerous radiation can protect you from cancer. No, it probably doesn't. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

For two years, some say the Belgian skies were filled with triangular alien UFOs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The hard, testable, scientific proof that we actually did land humans on the moon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The science behind many of the specific claims made by Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theorists. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The history of the Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theory, and those who believe in it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

One of those things everyone seems to believe in, but for which there's almost no evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Try it before you knock it… unless you want to know if it really works. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices