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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

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

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

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

Conspiracy theories surround the cancellation of this advanced Canadian aircraft from the 1950s. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some new facts and extra information on six previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Huna blends generic New Age spiritualism with a concocted version of Hawaiian tradition. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Skeptoid gives our take on some spooky experiences sent in by listeners. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

If you need to find ground water, ask a hydrologist, not an occult magician. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

Is clearcutting of forests for logging a public nuisance or a public benefit? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

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

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

In which another round of corrections is made to previous episodes. Keeping it real! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some updates and additional information to a few past episodes... better all the time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

What's true and what's not about the world's most popular cryptocurrency. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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

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

A mishmash of eastern mysticism masquerades as psychometry. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

Myths, conspiracies, and coverups cloak this 1857 massacre of American emigrants. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

My personal favorite Skeptoid episodes from each and every year of its production. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

This Marian apparition from Egypt has some science fiction explanations and a sound one. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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

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