Skeptoid

The world's most famous cryptid is said to swim in Scotland's most famous loch. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the belief that nanotechnology may result in an army of self-replicating machines that consume society. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid announces two new paperbacks: "Astronauts, Aliens, and Ape-Men" plus "The Secret of the Gypsy Queen". Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say that Persian theologian al-Ghazali was solely responsible for the end of the Golden Age of science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Declassified military documents show that Iranian fighter planes engaged a UFO in 1976. Here's what's actually known. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid goes back and corrects some errors from previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Now that Area 51 has been declassified, we finally have proof that what they did had nothing to do with aliens. 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

Some believe that world governments and economies are secretly controlled by the Rothschild banking family. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Many popular anecdotes tell how and why some people are left-handed, but the true facts are even more interesting. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

How global warming became the poster boy for failed science communication. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Although the book and movie convinced many that this story actually happened, it is purely a fictional invention. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Russian scientists are said to have drilled a borehole that broke into hell and released the screams of the damned. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid dips into the feedback mailbag to respond to comments from listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at some of history's most famous scientists who experimented upon themselves. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at what is and isn't known about history's most infamous serial killer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Many audio aficionados split into two camps, those supporting modern digital audio, and those supporting vinyl records. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A geologist claimed to have discovered a new species of great ape in Venezuela in the early 20th century. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Treasure hunters comb Virginia searching for a legendary hoard of gold and silver. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A little girl saves her kingdom when she is the only one who does not fall for the pop pseudoscience of the day. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Jellylike blobs have been reported to fall from the sky during meteor showers. Aliens? No, science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

Four common types of analytical errors in reasoning that we all need to beware of. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We can be sure that two women visiting Versaille in 1901 did not time-travel back to the days of Marie Antoinette. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the worst examples of television promoting pseudohistory. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers some listener emails that present common flaws in scientific thinking. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The true history behind the claimed Nazi "wonder weapons" like anti-gravity flying saucers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A thin, dark phantom three times the height of a man is said to stalk this peak in the Cairngorms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The story goes that in 1994, fumes from a woman's body knocked out most of an emergency room staff. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

My process for examining a new topic, to learn whether it's fact or fiction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The facts, as we know them, about what really happened to maritime lore's most famous missing crew. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pit bulls have a reputation for being the most dangerous dog breed. Turns out the facts just don't support that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An urban legend in Korea states that running an electric fan at night can kill you. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid responds to some feedback emails notable for their dependence on straw man arguments. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid corrects another round of errors found in previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

No good evidence supports the claims that the leader of the Bounty mutineers made it safely back to England. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

My list of the worst offenders on the web in the promotion of scientific and factual misinformation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Said to have been haunting New Jersey for nearly 300 years, this alleged creature has its actual origins in politics. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Most election methods are fundamentally broken, but can be fixed with any of a number of tweaks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The claim that someone else wrote Shakespeare's works is popular, but virtually indefensible. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Why it's impossible for a wooden vessel the size of Noah's Ark to be seaworthy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Both brainwashing and its opposite, deprogramming, are equally mythological. 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

The story of a living beast in Scotland's Glamis Castle may have a nugget of truth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

There are lots of reasons to move away from fossil fuels, but the supposed hazards of fracking just aren't among them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another batch of listener emails answered and dissected. And served. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Demonizing radio transmitters as carcinogenic is popular, but is not supported by any reasonable science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We are not alone in the galaxy. Here's why that doesn't mean we've been visited by anyone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

There is no plausible reason to think a conspiracy of Jews plans to take over the world's banks and governments. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some seek a natural or alien explanation for these aerial lights in Norway. Turns out the true cause is much simpler. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices