Skeptoid

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

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter should stick to politics; her science is too screwed up for words. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Another round of listener feedback from the past several months. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An examination of phrenology, physiognomy, palmistry, and iridology. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Virtually nothing that pop culture tells us about Nostradamus is true. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Learn the basic arguments against science made by Young Earthers, and how to rebut them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at the theories surrounding Spring Heeled Jack, the scourge of England in the early 1800s. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Wilson Key's magnum opus textbook about subliminal advertising was almost pure fiction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Crop circles are commonly known to be man made, yet some still insist they must be of alien origin. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Food that has been sterilized with irradiation is not radioactive and will not hurt you. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A popular fad holds that plastic water bottles leach toxic chemicals into your water. Don't believe it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Raelians are naked and they worship space aliens. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A few fringe activists claim that fluoridation of water carries more danger than benefit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A look at some of those persistent hoax emails that you receive almost every day. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

California is home to a wealth of places rich with mystery and intrigue. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

An examination of the lethal pop-culture fad of chelating autistic children. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Oakland freeway collapse was not a government ploy to prove that the Twin Towers collapsed from fire. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This "world's most haunted house" was the invention of an imaginative showman and author. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Science magazines continue to undermine themselves by publishing ads for pseudoscientific products. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ethanol as a fuel may be carbon neutral, but offers few other benefits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Here is how to tell whose "scientific journal" article is actually more reputable. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some say that the collective emotions of humans can influence electronic hardware. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite claims of divine origin, "Bible Codes" are found in every long manuscript, even random text. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Free range chickens and farm raised fish probably have almost none of the benefits you think they do. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The conspiracy theory that reptilian beings control our governments has a fascinating history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Teaching critical thinking to students needs to be much more than simply asking the Socratic questions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The psychic technique of remote viewing is consistent with simple, well known magic tricks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Book of Mormon's history of the Americas is full of irreconcilable errors and false archaeology. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Defined in 1895, chiropractic treats imaginary conditions with dangerous manipulations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Despite what many UFOlogists want, the famous Phoenix Lights were not alien spacecraft. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some claim that a legendary wildman, the Almas, is a population of relict Neanderthals. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Why everyone needs to start taking global warming more seriously. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

No matter how much we want these Texas ghost lights to be mysterious, it turns out they're all too mundane. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices