Skeptoid

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

Science shows that the Yeti of the Himalayas is almost certainly not a real creature. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

Greek philosopher Zeno apparently proved that movement was impossible with a few simple paradoxes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Prepare to have your mind blown by these listener emails from conspiracy theorists. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Therapies intended to help gays become straight don't work. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We usually dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy people; but that doesn't tell the whole story. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Grand Duchess Anastasia did not survive her family's 1918 execution, and did not go on to live in the US. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the possibility that legends of Haitian zombies may have a grain of truth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The facts behind the stories of military dolphins trained to attack divers and plant mines on ships. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Westerners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine is due in part to clever book publishers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

People can catch on fire… and there doesn't seem to be anything too mysterious about any given case. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This secret government lab was said to create genetic mutants. Here's what they actually did. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. The science behind it is less than compelling. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

American POW/MIAs are probably not still being held captive inside Vietnam. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The 1996 mass murder in Tasmania was not secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers more listener feedback. Recorded live at the 250th Episode party. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

Exorcisms are a brutal torture ritual with no hope of actually helping a person who believes themselves possessed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This famous story of God once healing an amputee falls apart under historical scrutiny. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Historians actually have a pretty complete picture of what happened to the "missing" Roanoke colonists. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war would not result in devastating global cooling. 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 real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Various "gravitational anomalies" around the world have fascinating real science behind them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices