Skeptoid

Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Navy sonar is claimed to be lethal to whales, but the latest research tells a very different story. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

IQ tests are fundamentally flawed, hopelessly inconsistent, and almost completely useless. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This mysterious region in the south Atlantic was not responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We still don't know the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

DDT can be both a killer of birds and a savior against malaria. Rarely is a question as black and white as we'd like. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Speed reading classes claim to be able to turbocharge your words per minute. Save your money; it doesn't work. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A few of my favorite moments looking back on 228 Skeptoid episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Although a lot of products promise to boost your immune system, there is actually no such thing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads, but researchers solved it a century ago. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is not to plan global domination. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

News agencies have long promoted a 2001 red rainfall as alien, but a better explanation was already there. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Stories of living frogs being found encased in solid rock have a more interesting (and reality-based) explanation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Curse of Macbeth should make Shakespeare's play too dangerous to perform, but science tells us for sure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at a massive stone structure off the coast of Japan, said to be a manmade pyramid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Josef Stalin did not order the creation of an army of half-ape, half-human hybrids. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A close look at some of the stories of UFOs said to have been reported by NASA astronauts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid looks at some newer logical fallacies, often used in place of sound arguments. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at what's really in food reveals the foolishness of the idea of "good food" and "bad food". Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More vitriol from the Skeptoid inbox exposed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another round of answering questions sent in by students everywhere. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Shockingly, Hollywood movies don't make us all history experts, and Salieri didn't murder Mozart. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More additions to the corrections and errata files for Skeptoid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The American government did not have advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and did not allow it to happen. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The United States, Canada, and Mexico are not planning to merge into a single huge police state. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The facts behind tall tales from the American southwest of ships found in the middle of the desert. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

200 students watched a strange craft fly near their school in Australia in 1966 -- or so the story goes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

All around the world, ancient art depicts creatures that some interpret as dinosaurs. Don't believe it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In this newly described condition, some patients report strange plastic fibers growing from their skin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another trip to the Listener Feedback files, including my favorite yet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A town in Brazil has an unusually high twin rate, but not because Josef Mengele survived and did experiments there. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Therapeutic touch is a pseudoscientific healing method that is neither therapeutic nor involves touch. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Though some claim the stone structures at Puma Punku were alien, archaeologists find no real mysteries there. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe played an important role in the Catholic colonization of the Americas. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Don't blindly turn to science when you need answers - instead, seek out those who want to sell you something. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some native religious groups in the South Pacific hope to recreate WWII's influx of material goods. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Dubbed "America's Stonehenge", this granite monument in Georgia appeals to all sorts of conspiracy theorists. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another perilous dive into the listener feedback files. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Internet movie Zeitgeist uses dishonesty to make an ideological point that could have easily been made ethically. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

Is the Denver International Airport a headquarters for the New World Order? (Hint: no) Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Faces appearing on the floor of a house in Spain were easily faked, yet many still consider them supernatural. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Everyone believes in ball lightning, but when we stick to the science, there's probably nothing there. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It's a popular story, but all the evidence tells us that no Jews were in Egypt at the time of the Pyramids. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This shattering boom in Newfoundland was more likely a natural phenomenon than a superweapon test. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some call it Bullshido: Martial arts tricks like touchless attacks and the Touch of Death. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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