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Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
1025 episodes
4 days ago
The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.
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The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.
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Episodes (20/1025)
Skeptoid
Skeptoid #1002: A Feast of Feedback
Once again we go through some of your feedback to past episodes — all the good stuff that enhances and improves the presentation.
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4 days ago
15 minutes 56 seconds

Skeptoid
Skeptoid #1001: The Phantom Clown Panic
Clowns have a habit of terrifying many of us. So why shouldn't we be surprised to see mass clown panics?
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1 week ago
12 minutes 33 seconds

Skeptoid
Skeptoid #1000: Candle on the Water
Today marks the 1000th Skeptoid episode. And it's time to raise the question: What are you going to do for it?
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2 weeks ago
15 minutes 56 seconds

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Skeptoid #999: Day of the Medieval Dead
Medieval tales of walking corpses reflect common misunderstandings of death and the era's blurred line between myth and reality.
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3 weeks ago
16 minutes 54 seconds

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Skeptoid #998: The Manifestation Trap: OCD and the Law of Attraction
What began as 19th-century mind-cure mysticism has morphed into a billion-dollar culture that may be hurting more minds than it helps.
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1 month ago
15 minutes 58 seconds

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Skeptoid #997: Sounds of the Aurora
Using real science to investigate the question of whether some people can "hear" the aurora.
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1 month ago
15 minutes 46 seconds

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Skeptoid #996: Murder in Hex Hollow
The 1928 murder of a folk healer ignited a media frenzy and moral panic, revealing how superstition and magical thinking can fuel real-world tragedy.
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1 month ago
15 minutes 48 seconds

Skeptoid
Preview — Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth on The Internet We Didn’t Get
We’re sharing a preview of a new audiobook, Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth, which celebrates the wit and wisdom of the legendary science fiction author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Douglas Adams was someone who thought deeply about the biggest problems in the world, from the internet, to artificial intelligence, to space exploration, politics, and conservation—he was a sharp critic and a profoundly disruptive thinker of the way we do things. Written and narrated by Arvind Ethan David, Adams’ former protégé, this one-of-a-kind audiobook includes rare archival material from the Adams Estate, interviews with Adams’ personal friends like Griff Rhys Jones and David Baddiel, and reenactments of his work to form an immersive journey through the mind of one of the most visionary writers of our time. Get Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth now at Audible, Spotify, pushkin.fm/audiobooks, or wherever audiobooks are sold.
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1 month ago
49 minutes 23 seconds

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Skeptoid #995: The Eugenic History of the Body Type Diet
Is there good science backing up the idea that you should eat based upon which of three body types you have?
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1 month ago
14 minutes 35 seconds

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Skeptoid #994: Making AI Environmentally Friendly
Will our improvements to AI's voracious appetite for electricity keep pace with the exploding demand?
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2 months ago
17 minutes 7 seconds

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Skeptoid #993: How to Decide What to Eat
Do you really need to pay quite so much attention to which foods you eat, and which you avoid?
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2 months ago
17 minutes 11 seconds

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Skeptoid #992: The Case of the Missing Beaumont Children
Since psychic abilities do not exist outside the delusions of true believers, involving psychics in searches for missing persons is worse than useless.
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2 months ago
17 minutes 59 seconds

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Skeptoid #991: Real Sea Monsters
A roundup of all the biggest and scariest real sea monsters — from today and from prehistoric times.
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2 months ago
19 minutes 30 seconds

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Skeptoid #990: Rethinking Science Education
How one special moment redefined how a science teacher does her job.
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2 months ago
16 minutes 25 seconds

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Skeptoid #989: Are $1,000,000 Paranormal Challenges Effective?
Their exciting nature, combined with the fact nobody's ever won one, make paranormal challenge prizes important educational tools.
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3 months ago
15 minutes 46 seconds

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Skeptoid #988: Chocolate Myths
Here are many popular myths about chocolate. How many can you tell are true or not?
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3 months ago
14 minutes 16 seconds

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Skeptoid #987: More than a Magician's Assistant
She may have gotten her start as Houdini's sidekick, but Rose Mackenberg became a giant of unmasking fraudulent mediums.
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3 months ago
15 minutes 1 second

Skeptoid
A Brief Shake-Up at Skeptoid
You're going to get to enjoy some new guest hosts for a month or two on Skeptoid.
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3 months ago
1 minute 46 seconds

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Skeptoid #986: Do Functional Mushrooms Function?
Super mushrooms are claimed by some to provide vague health benefits beyond their known nutritional values.
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3 months ago
15 minutes 53 seconds

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Skeptoid #985: Supervolcanoes and Super Earthquakes
A roundup of the world's riskiest volcanoes and fault zones — and they're not necessarily the most hazardous.
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4 months ago
16 minutes 28 seconds

Skeptoid
The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.