Skeptoid

Skeptoid answers some more questions from students. Send yours in today! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An exploration of the best way to evaluate an old, unsubstantiated folk legend like The Bell Witch. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

There is neither evidence nor plausible hypothetical foundation for cell phone signals to be at all dangerous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Being known as a skeptic is not necessarily good for your social life. Here's how to overcome the difficulties. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A pair of young Italian brothers probably didn't uncover evidence of Soviet cosmonauts dying in space. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

For the first time ever, the active ingredients in homeopathic preparations are revealed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite the popular fearmongering, GMO technologies promise a boon to agriculture and humanity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Misinformation and fantasy surrounds the popular Tibet notions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The pope canonized them, but these three children didn't actually predict anything in 1917. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some people believe that CERN's Large Hadron Collider will create black holes that will destroy the Earth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at one of Russia's most bizarre mysteries of mass death. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at mysterious shortwave "numbers stations" around the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the tale, the popular explanation, and the real science behind it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some people believe that your brain encodes its actual meaning in reverse within everything you say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another visit to the endless well of listeners comments and criticisms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Vitamin C does nothing to prevent or reduce the severity of colds. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Stanford Prison Experiment, said to have proven that evil environments produce evil behavior, was completely unscientific and unreliable. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look back correcting some of the facts and figures that Skeptoid has gotten wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

When we run out of oil, society will likely peacefully and gradually adapt. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

TWA Flight 800 was not shot down by US friendly fire. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite their reputation for mystical powers, crystal skulls are neither ancient nor mysterious. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

New high resolution imagery has proven that this hill on Mars doesn't look quite so much like a carved face after all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Secret teaches that victims are always to blame, and that anyone can have anything simply by wishing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

If someone wants you to be their salesperson and is calling it a "business opportunity", be very skeptical. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The evidence shows that Travis Walton's famous story of having been abducted by aliens probably never happened. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The real science behind the events predicted in 2012. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

There are many good reasons why environmentalists are turning again to nuclear power for the future. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

My responses to some of the more "out there" feedback I've received. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An exploration of the mysterious rumble that some people hear all over the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

My thoughts on a company that sells useless pseudoscientific hardware to an ALS victim. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Unlike what's said in highly dramatized Hollywood shockumentaries, fast food is not especially unhealthy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Cranks love to make the claim on YouTube, but you cannot run your car on water. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Superfruit juices are nothing more than super ripoffs. Don't waste your money. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The collapse of 7 World Trade Center was not a controlled demolition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

All sorts of marvelous health claims are made for jewelry such as the Q-Ray bracelet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite its sciencey-sounding name, there is no such thing as "detoxification" beyond what your body already does. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Creationism is not one set of beliefs - it is a battleground of dramatically conflicting world views. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Why the use of electronic equipment by TV ghost hunters is so stupid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An examination of the various claims that microwaved food and water are poisonous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Pop culture says it was an alien spaceship -- but history tells us what was really found in the New Mexico desert. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A skeptical examination of pop-culture medical beliefs, like dramatically stabbing someone in the heart with a syringe. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A description of Sumatra's own little miniature Bigfoot legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Neither religion nor atheism been responsible for a greater death toll throughout human history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite promotional claims, neither auras nor aura photography are things. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The second part of our exploration of logical fallacies. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An examination of many of the most common logical fallacies. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some claim to be hypersensitive to electromagnetism. Science has already solved what's really going on. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Proponents of colostrum supplements believe that it has a whole range of benefits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An examination of the popular trend in women's health, bioidentical hormone therapy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices