Skeptoid

Questioning whether this new spa treatment provides all the medical benefits it claims. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Myths and competing claims fog the origin of the term 420, a slang code for marijuana. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

These products advertised in the back of comic books promised improbable feats of science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This enigmatic author of the strange continues to confound. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

No, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some women you haven't heard of who made significant contributions to science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

These important scientists are virtually unknown. Let's see if we can fix that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Think you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Chemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Today we're going to answer questions sent in by listeners pertaining to episodes having to do with our natural world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

They say that a half-canine cryptid stalks the woods of Northern Michigan. Are they right? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An overview of the amazing chess playing robot of the 1700s. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Brian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Certain specific sonic frequencies are not the key to love, intuition, or spiritual order. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A series of sightings of a frog-like humanoid in the suburb of Loveland, Ohio prompts an enduring folkloric legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Trofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Infant male circumcision remains common in the United States. Today we look at the reasons and the implications. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In the last 50 years, marijuana has gone from menace to medicine. Which is it? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Conspiracy theory that a military training exercise is going to lead to martial law. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Brian responds to some listener feedback concerning the topic of fads. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at some common myths about babies and children. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Creationists have presented 5 questions they don't think 'evolutionists' can answer. Here are some answers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the conspiratorial hysteria and sensationalism surrounding the United Nations' Agenda 21. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

There is a region in the Great Lakes where, some say, ships and planes mysteriously disappear. Not so much. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Internet believes a lot of things about transgender people, but much of it isn't true. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The history of claims that secret Satanic cults are abusing children. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sometimes speculative animals do turn out to be real, but that still doesn't validate cryptozoology as a science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Deciding whether you want "paper or plastic" at the supermarket turns out to be a remarkably complex choice. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Brian responds to listener feedback on past episodes about environmental topics. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Science has let you down time after time, and that's one reason why it gets better and better. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The myths and facts behind the events that made the Alamo famous reveal it may not be worth remembering much. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Cow mutilation may have a simpler explanation than alien experimentation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The history of ghost photography and its many problems as evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

See if you know how many of these GMO "facts" are right. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

As the busiest part of the house, the kitchen has collected more folklore than any other room in it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In Costa Rica, mysterious stone spheres left behind by the country's previous inhabitants seem to defy explanation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Ideomotor Response underlies a number of occult phenomena and alt-med practices. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We examine Believe it or Not! and determine if we can believe this stuff. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Did aliens visit the ancient Earth and inspire human cultures? Some people claim so. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This poltergeist in Columbus Ohio turned out to be, like nearly all such cases, a mischievous teen. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We respond to questions about cryptids asked by listeners to our recent episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We are a story our brain tells itself. And our brains are habitual liars. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Discovery Channel wants you to think that a giant prehistoric shark may still swim our oceans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Alcatraz Island is veiled in the fog of myth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This large riverboat is said to have vanished without a trace on the Mississippi River in 1872. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices