
Skeptoid
1,069 episodes — Page 6 of 22

Ep 813Skeptoid #813: Why You Need to Care About Concrete
Concrete will remain one of our most important materials for decades — but there's a big problem with it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 812Skeptoid #812: 20 Years of Data from Portugal: Drug Decriminalization
20 years ago, Portugal decriminalized all drugs in an effort to reduce addiction, incarceration, and negative health impacts. How has it worked? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 811Skeptoid #811: Radon Therapy
Trying to treat pain or cancer by exposing yourself to a radioactive carcinogen provides only risk without the benefit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 810Skeptoid #810: Frida Sofia, the Victim Who Wasn't
After the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City, rescuers dug through the rubble for a little girl named Frida Sofia — who never existed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 809Skeptoid #809: The Avro Arrow Conspiracies
Conspiracy theories surround the cancellation of this advanced Canadian aircraft from the 1950s. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 808Skeptoid #808: Followups and Extras
Some new facts and extra information on six previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 807Skeptoid #807: Huna: New Age on an Island
Huna blends generic New Age spiritualism with a concocted version of Hawaiian tradition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 806Skeptoid #806: Environmental Microplastics
This manmade debris permeates our bodies and our planet, but what's the harm? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 805Skeptoid #805: The Cottingley Fairies: Analysis of a Famous Hoax
The true and weird history of the two girls who fooled the world with their fairy photographs in 1917. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 804Skeptoid #804: Unmasking the Old Stinker: The Hull Werewolf
This modern sighting of a strange beast is claimed to have been a resurgence of a legendary medieval monster. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 803Skeptoid #803: What Really Happened at Tunguska
The true cause of one of history's most violent cataclysms remains a mystery... to a degree. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 802Skeptoid #802: Pop Quiz: 15 for 15
It's 15 trivia questions from 15 Skeptoid episodes, to celebrate our 15th anniversary! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 801Skeptoid #801: Probiotics Fact and Fiction
Some people promote probiotics as a miracle cure for just about anything. What can they really do? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 800Skeptoid #800: To the Stars
A strange radio broadcast from a very unique group of VIPs being whisked away on a UFO. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 799Skeptoid #799: On the Authorship of the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
The most famous organ work in history has a surprising mystery -- we're not really sure who composed it! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 798Skeptoid #798: Tracking the Wild Big Cats of Britain
A close look at the tales of large black predatory cats stalking Britain for centuries. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 797Skeptoid #797: Why You Need to Care About Methane
We focus a lot on carbon dioxide when talking about climate change. Should we be talking more about methane? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 796Skeptoid #796: 9/11 Truthers, 20 Years Later
20 years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil, the conspiracy theories are still thriving -- just as we should expect. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 795Skeptoid #795: What Made the Shroud of Turin Immortal
A close look at what true science and true history can tell us about this most sacred Catholic relic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 794Skeptoid #794: Why You Needn't Worry About the Missing 411
A popular conspiracy theory claims that lots of people disappear under unexplainable circumstances in America's national parks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 793Skeptoid #793: Your Turn Yet Again
Skeptoid gives our take on some spooky experiences sent in by listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 792Skeptoid #792: Your Turn Again
In which I take a shot at trying to explain some of the weirdest stories sent in by listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 791Skeptoid #791: Dowsing: Water Witchcraft
If you need to find ground water, ask a hydrologist, not an occult magician. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 790Skeptoid #790: Is the Existence of Billionaires Inherently Harmful?
Pop culture tells us that the existence of billionaires is harmful to the economy. Is that so? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 789Skeptoid #789: All About Clearcutting
Is clearcutting of forests for logging a public nuisance or a public benefit? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 788Skeptoid #788: The UFO Rogues Gallery Takes Over America - Part 2
An unlikely group of paranormalists has persuaded the American public that the government takes UFOs seriously. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 787Skeptoid #787: The UFO Rogues Gallery Takes Over America - Part 1
An unlikely group of paranormalists has persuaded the American public that the government takes UFOs seriously. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 786Skeptoid #786: Horses in Pre-Columbian America
Horses went extinct in North America at the end of the last ice age, but oddly some are now saying they didn't. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 785Skeptoid #785: Desalination vs. A National Water Grid
A comparison of two popular ways to help cope with the new water reality of global warming. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 784Skeptoid #784: Head Transplants
The facts and fiction of what's possible and what's already been tried in switching human heads. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 783Skeptoid #783: The Legend of Barsa-Kelmes
The story behind the story of the many paranormal events associated with this former island in the Aral Sea. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 782Skeptoid #782: A Collection of Corrections
In which another round of corrections is made to previous episodes. Keeping it real! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 781Skeptoid #781: Space Junk: The Real Risk and What to Do About It
The problem of a runaway catastrophe in Low Earth Orbit looms ever larger and closer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 780Skeptoid #780: CBD for Everything
Cannabidiol is sold as an additive to just about every kind of product you can imagine. Why? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 779Skeptoid #779: How the Pyramids Were (and Were Not) Built - Part 2
Some of what we know about the Great Pyramid that exclude it having been built by aliens or Atlanteans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 778Skeptoid #778: How the Pyramids Were (and Were Not) Built - Part 1
Some of what we know about the Great Pyramid that exclude it having been built by aliens or Atlanteans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 777Skeptoid #777: The 2019 USS Kidd Incident
Popular reports claim that a group of US Navy destroyers were buzzed by advanced drones in 2019. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 776Skeptoid #776: The Engineered Moon Conspiracy
Science refutes the claim made by some that the Moon is a hollow spaceship engineered by aliens. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 775Skeptoid #775: Listener Feedback: Monstrous Reversals
Some updates and additional information to a few past episodes... better all the time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 774Skeptoid #774: Bitcoin Fact and Fiction
What's true and what's not about the world's most popular cryptocurrency. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 773Skeptoid #773: Top 10 Pro-Science Fictional Characters
A roundup of all the best pro-science characters from your favorite books, movies, and TV shows. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 772Skeptoid #772: The Monster of Port Chatham
This remote town in Alaska was said to have been abandoned because of violent Bigfoot attacks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 771Skeptoid #771: Denizens of Lake Baikal
A host of strange monsters are said to lurk beneath the surface of the world's deepest lake. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 770Skeptoid #770: The Human Design System
A mishmash of eastern mysticism masquerades as psychometry. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 769Skeptoid #769: The Vampire of Croglin Grange
Which came first: the publication of this famous vampire story, or its associated family tradition? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 768Skeptoid #768: Inside the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Myths, conspiracies, and coverups cloak this 1857 massacre of American emigrants. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 767Skeptoid #767: The Year's Best of Skeptoid
My personal favorite Skeptoid episodes from each and every year of its production. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 766Skeptoid #766: Illuminating Our Lady of Zeitoun
This Marian apparition from Egypt has some science fiction explanations and a sound one. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 765Skeptoid #765: Tartaria and the Mud Flood
Some claim that all of world history is a coverup for the mighty ancient nation of Tartaria. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Ep 764Skeptoid #764: Learning Styles, Re-examined
Most teachers believe that students have different learning styles and curricula can be tailored to it. Not so much. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices