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Going back over a few previous Skeptoid episodes to correct errors (head is hung in shame). Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some advocate that going barefoot is better for the health and strength of your feet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This ancient device, 1000 years ahead of its time, neither proves alien visitation nor disproves history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

These fireballs actually do rise from the Mekong river each year -- and we know exactly what causes them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another dip into the listener feedback files for Skeptoid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Modern metal pipes found buried in ancient China are neither pipes nor evidence of ancient alien visitation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The claims made about the dangerous chemicals in vaccines are all either false or misrepresented. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Said to be the best evidence yet for the afterlife, the Scole Experiments were actually just a hackneyed performance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Skeptoid answers some more questions sent in by students, on a variety of short topics. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This mysterious sound captured by NOAA hydrophones was not a sea monster. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Call them Network Marketing, Multilevel Marketing, or MLM, these pyramid schemes are proven not to work. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

These shadowy apparitions we sometimes see can be terrifying, but aren't supernatural. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More myths about the human body that you've always heard, and probably believe. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Astrology neither has plausibility nor any test data showing that its predictions are better than random chance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

All the reasons you've ever heard for Daylight Saving Time are nonsense. Here is the real one. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

At the beginning of WWII, the American defense forces in Los Angeles fought a battle against a UFO. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Waterspouts have nothing to do with popular stories of frogs and fish falling from the sky. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More replies to some of Skeptoid's more colorful listener feedback. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith allegedly translated the adventures of Abraham in Egypt. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

When scientists publicly debate promoters of pseudoscience, they often do more harm than good. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Organic agriculture provides no benefits whatsoever over science-based farming. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

See if you can tell whether these food and fashion products are named after real people or fictitious people. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Believed by many to be an ancient mystical order, but really just a mail-order New Age literature business. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Critical thinking offers the opposite of what seems to be popular, yet we can still make it commercial. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The idea of locally grown produce as nowhere near as green as its proponents seem to think it is. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some more jabs and punches between Skeptoid and its most vocal listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Good arguments often go unused because poor arguments like ad hominems are so much easier. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A skeptical look at the Mothman, an alleged prophet of disaster. 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 skeptical look at whether high fructose corn syrup is really any worse for you than sugar. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mel's Hole is said to be a mysterious bottomless pit in eastern Washington state. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some regard Neuro-linguistic Programming as a psychotherapy breakthrough, some as a New Age self-help trend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, but others almost certainly did so before him. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another peek into the mailbag to see who loves us, and who hates us. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mysterious blobs of flesh washed up on the world's beaches have been called everything from sea monsters to Cthulhu. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the placebo effect: What it can do, what it can't do, and what you need to know about it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A secret recording of an actual meeting of the Illuminati. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Although urban legends say the creator of Coral Castle had supernatural help, the photographs tell a different story. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

The science behind binaural beats: What they are, what they are claimed to do, and what they can actually do. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Young Earthers point to an infamous dating error as evidence that the Earth is only as old as the Bible says. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A skeptical look at the claim that FEMA maintains a network of prison camps in readiness. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A collection of bizarre human skulls from around the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some believe that NASA is trying to turn Saturn or Jupiter into a small sun. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Answering more questions sent in by students. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More fun from the listener feedback files. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Belief that this hill in Bosnia is an ancient pyramid is driven by New Age woo and pathological science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Sellers of new-age water treatment products charge outrageous prices for a product with zero plausibility. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Guess whether these popular characters from history were real or fictional. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices