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Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students, all of them this week pertaining to popular food pseudoscience. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Stories that outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might have made it back from South America don't hold up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Hold onto your hats: Growing your hair long will not confer super strength or vitality upon you. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid responds to comments sent in by listeners who don't accept that they've been ripped off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Guess which of these secret military bases around the world are real. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say that an early Native American tribe were giant cannibals. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

After so many decades, the number of incompatible conspiracy theories about the death of JFK continues to grow. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite activist claims, wind turbines are not making anybody sick. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Of all the many claims of Europeans being first to the New World, only one is true. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say this extinct Tasmanian marsupial may still roam the forests. The evidence is against them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A young pilot who disappeared in 1978 might have been having a little fun, Spielberg style. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A line of reasoning named for Socrates helps us help believers in the strange re-examine their beliefs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some people who enjoy raw milk also make up false claims that regular milk is more dangerous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look into the plausibility and historicity of the ferocious maelstrom of legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A quick look at many of the most common scientific study types. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The crew of a blimp mysteriously vanished in 1942, but their blimp came back OK... without them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid corrects a bunch of errors made in previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We look at twelve legendary places that you've heard of, but may not know whether they're real or not. 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

A new trend in spas is to let people relax in salt caves, and it's based on solid pseudoscience. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The true history behind the iconic Bigfoot film that launched the legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers a raft of listener emails pertaining to alternative medicine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The urban legend that the CIA conducted unethical mind control experiments has a grain of truth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If you can demonstrate a power unknown to science, there are people looking to write you a check. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The legend of the disappearing Eskimo village of Angikuni Lake turns out to be simple pulp fiction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Background music really can influence our buying decisions in a shopping environment. 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

Lawmakers are often pressured by ideologues to pass laws based on bad science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A mysterious "grinning man" is said to appear and terrorize UFO witnesses. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Vortexes of spiritual energy are claimed to exist in Sedona, but science suggests we remain skeptical. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An object claimed to be 13,000-year-old alien satellite orbiting the Earth is just a piece of an old space shuttle. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers questions sent in by listeners pertaining to conspiracy theories. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In fact, handwriting analysis tells us nothing useful about the personality and aptitudes of the writer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The infamous arcade game Polybius, said to drive players to suicide or madness, was never more than an urban legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The book and movie "Sybil" told the story of a woman purported to have Multiple Personality Syndrome. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An old story claims a long list of astonishing similarities between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some believe that bruise-causing suction on the skin provides a variety of health benefits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid digs into the feedback mailbag and answers questions about aliens and UFOs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

There is a popular fringe theory about human evolution that claims we went through an aquatic phase. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An Internet legend claims that a man named John Titor is a visitor from the year 2036. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A B-25 bomber ditched in a Pennsylvania river in broad daylight 1956 and, seemingly impossibly, was never found. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say that it wasn't an airliner that struck the Pentagon on 9/11, but a missile. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This apocryphal Middle Ages pope said to be a woman in disguise probably never existed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Schumann Resonance, 7.83Hz, is one natural radio band in our atmosphere, but holds no mystical powers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the mysterious government agents said to intimidate those who witness flying saucers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid interviews three of the most popular and controversial figures in modern pseudoscience. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A list of ten Hollywood celebrities who have leveraged their fame into the promotion of science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The true history of the experiment that is said to present the strongest evidence yet for telepathic abilities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This most famous of all fabled "lost mines" has a history that fails to stand up to skeptical scrutiny. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid responds to another round of listener feedback. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices