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Ep 564Skeptoid #564: Into Thin Error

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

Mar 28, 201713 min

Ep 563Skeptoid #563: Grounding the Ghost of Flight 401

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

Mar 21, 201712 min

Ep 562Skeptoid #562: Rhino Horn: Cure or Curse?

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

Mar 14, 201714 min

Ep 561Skeptoid #561: Beethoven's Hair

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

Mar 7, 201715 min

Ep 560Skeptoid #560: Remembering the Mandela Effect

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

Feb 28, 201713 min

Ep 559Skeptoid #559: Hitler's Antarctic Fortress Unmasked

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

Feb 21, 201714 min

Ep 558Skeptoid #558: Listener Feedback: Electric Boogaloo

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

Feb 14, 201711 min

Ep 557Skeptoid #557: Who Were the Berserkers?

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

Feb 7, 201713 min

Ep 556Skeptoid #556: Exploring Kincaid's Cave

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

Jan 31, 201713 min

Ep 555Skeptoid #555: Thorium Reactors: Fact and Fiction

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

Jan 24, 201714 min

Ep 554Skeptoid #554: How Your Credit Card Got Stolen

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

Jan 17, 201714 min

Ep 553Skeptoid #553: How Your Password Got Stolen

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

Jan 10, 201713 min

Ep 552Skeptoid #552: The D. B. Cooper Mystery

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

Jan 3, 201713 min

Ep 551Skeptoid #551: Space Missions You Should Know

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

Dec 27, 201613 min

Ep 550Skeptoid #550: The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

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

Dec 20, 201613 min

Ep 549Skeptoid #549: The Simple Proof of Man-Made Global Warming

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

Dec 13, 201614 min

Ep 548Skeptoid #548: Bruce Lee Myths

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

Dec 6, 201613 min

Ep 547Skeptoid #547: The Ghost Fighter Plane of Pearl Harbor

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

Nov 29, 201612 min

Ep 546Skeptoid #546: There's No Such Thing as Race... Or Is There?

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

Nov 22, 201613 min

Ep 545Skeptoid #545: First in Flight

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

Nov 15, 201614 min

Ep 544Skeptoid #544: Feedback and Followups

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

Nov 8, 201612 min

Ep 543Skeptoid #543: White Hat Journal Hoaxes

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

Nov 1, 201614 min

Ep 542Skeptoid #542: Photographic Memory

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

Oct 25, 201613 min

Ep 541Skeptoid #541: Defusing India's Ancient Atomic Blasts

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

Oct 18, 201613 min

Ep 540Skeptoid #540: Feng Shui Today

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

Oct 11, 201613 min

Ep 539Skeptoid #539: Radiation Hormesis: Is It Good for You?

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

Oct 4, 201614 min

Ep 538Skeptoid #538: The Belgian UFO Wave

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

Sep 27, 201614 min

Ep 537Skeptoid #537: Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 3

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

Sep 20, 201613 min

Ep 536Skeptoid #536: Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 2

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

Sep 13, 201613 min

Ep 535Skeptoid #535: Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 1

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

Sep 6, 201613 min

Ep 534Skeptoid #534: Earthquake Lights: Do They Exist?

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

Aug 30, 201615 min

Ep 533Skeptoid #533: Don't Try It Before You Knock It

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

Aug 23, 201613 min

Ep 532Skeptoid #532: Who Killed the Red Baron?

A look at which of the six competing claims for who killed the Red Baron was probably true. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 16, 201615 min

Ep 531Skeptoid #531: The Banjawarn Bang

Evidence suggests a doomsday cult may have successfully tested a nuclear bomb in Australia in 1993. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 9, 201613 min

Ep 530Skeptoid #530: No, You Shouldn't Question Everything

Pop wisdom continually reminds us to Question Everything -- an idea which is rarely either practical or useful. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Aug 2, 201614 min

Ep 529Skeptoid #529: Wrongy McWrongface

Skeptoid corrects another batch of errors from previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 26, 201613 min

Ep 528Skeptoid #528: The Secret History of Majestic 12

These purported UFO documents changed the course of the culture of UFO belief. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 19, 201614 min

Ep 527Skeptoid #527: Conjuring Up the Warrens

The Conjuring 2 tells a story that is fictional in a way you might not have guessed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 12, 201613 min

Ep 526Skeptoid #526: Sky Trumpets

From all over the world come reports of strange trumpet-like blasts from the sky. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jul 5, 201614 min

Ep 525Skeptoid #525: Autopsy: The Clinton Body Count

The surprising origins of the claim that the Clintons kill any who get in their way. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 28, 201613 min

Ep 524Skeptoid #524: Colony Collapse Disorder: Science and Pseudoscience

Everyone loves to point the finger at the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder; here's what we actually know. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 21, 201613 min

Ep 523Skeptoid #523: How Do Homing Pigeons Navigate?

The latest and greatest research reveals that we still have no clue how birds accomplish this amazing feat. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 14, 201613 min

Ep 522Skeptoid #522: Dark Watchers

The true origins of the Dark Watchers, said to go all the way back to Chumash Indian stories. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jun 7, 201612 min

Ep 521Skeptoid #521: The New Flat Earthers

The reinvented Flat Earth fad is less about geophysics and more about conspiracy mongering. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 31, 201613 min

Ep 520Skeptoid #520: Solving the Haunted Hoia-Baciu Forest

It is said to be the world's most haunted forest. Here's what we actually find there. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 24, 201612 min

Ep 519Skeptoid #519: Alien Implants

Some of those who believe they've been abducted by aliens also think they were left with a souvenir. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 17, 201614 min

Ep 518Skeptoid #518: Listener Feedback: Denial and Aliens

Skeptoid answers some feedback sent in by listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 10, 201612 min

Ep 517Skeptoid #517: Antibiotics and Hormones in Beef

One of pop food woo's favorite claims is that drugs given to beef cattle pose a danger to humans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

May 3, 201613 min

Ep 516Skeptoid #516: Demythologizing the Shaolin Monks

Just about everything you think you know about the Shaolin Monks was made up for tourists. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apr 26, 201613 min

Ep 515Skeptoid #515: All About Absinthe

This mysterious alcoholic drink is the subject of more urban legends than any other liquor. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apr 19, 201613 min