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Each weekly episode focuses on a single phenomenon — an urban legend, a paranormal claim, alternative therapy, or something just plain stupid — that you've heard of, and that you probably believe in. Skeptoid attempts to expose the folly of belief in non-evidence based phenomena, and more importantly, explains the factual scientific reality.
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Aug 31, 2010 - What do Carl Jung and Isabel Myers have to say about you? Do you know your Myers-Briggs personality type? Let's point the skeptical eye and see if Myers-Briggs has any real psychological validity, or if it's just a astrology-like gimmick. Read more
Aug 30, 2010 - Skeptoid is a finalist in the 2010 Parsec Awards podcast awards, in the "Fact Behind the Fiction" category. But it's up against some stiff competition. Please beat drums and sacrific small animals, and help me win.
Aug 24, 2010 - Off the coast of Japan, under 25m of water, lies the Yonaguni Monument, said by some to be a stepped pyramid of human construction. Others (like, geologists and stuff) find it to be an unremarkable outcropping of the native bedrock. Which is true, and how do we know? Read more
Aug 17, 2010 - It's said that the Soviet dictator wanted an army of Super Soldiers, created from human-ape hybrids. It's even said that he ordered the Soviet Union's greatest biologist and reproductitivy expert, Il'ya Ivanov, to proceed with just such a project. But, is it true? Read more
Aug 10, 2010 - We've all heard that NASA astronauts saw UFOs in space and know all about the little green men. The Astronauts and the Aliens, today on Skeptoid... Read more
Aug 3, 2010 - How about some new logical fallacies, such as the Michael Jordan Fallacy or the Appeal to Quantum Physics? Read more
Jul 27, 2010 - Think you know what kinds of food people should or shouldn't eat? Skeptoid looks at the realities of the things we eat, as a foundation from which any food claim can be meaningfully assessed. Read more
Jul 20, 2010 - Listener feedback is resurrected again this week. Some people just can't leave me alone. Of course we could advise them to go find their own damn podcast to listen to, but then we'd be robbed of all this amusing and provocative feedback. Read more
Jul 13, 2010 - Skeptoid answers student questions on gold as an investment; the value of neurofeedback as a medical treatment; Swedish snus compared to other smokeless tobacco; the rumor that the US government has millions of coffins ready so that they can execute us; and whether you should stop eating food and instead stare at the sun for all your nourishment. Read more
Jul 6, 2010 - Hollywood lore often becomes urban legend. From Alexander Pushkin's stageplay Mozart and Salieri through Peter Shaffer's 1984 movie Amadeus, the public has popularly believed that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was murdered by his musical rival Antonio Salieri. How much truth is there to this urban legend? Read more
Jun 29, 2010 - Once in a while I publish an episode consisting of corrections. Skeptoid contains a lot of material covering a wide range of topics, and it's inevitable that some errata slip through. This week I correct some of them in Things About Which I Have In Error Been. If you catch others, send them my way. Read more
Jun 22, 2010 - When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 to bring the United States into WWII, it didn't take long for a conspiracy theory to form: That the US knew about the attack in advance and allowed it to happen, as an excuse to declare war on Japan. Read more
Jun 15, 2010 - It's the "Mother of All Conspiracy Theories": the rumor that the United States plans to abandon its sovereignty and merge with Canada and Mexico into a police megastate called the North American Union using the "amero" currency. Some say it's already underway. Read more
Jun 8, 2010 - For two centuries, wanderers in the American southwest have reported the lost ship of the desert, variously described as a Viking ship or a Spanish galleon, buried in the sand where no ship has any business being. Read more
Jun 1, 2010 - In 1966, a UFO descended upon Westall High School in Melbourne, Australia. What's notable about this event is the large number of witnesses, about 200. Can 200 people be wrong, or must we accept that an alien spacecraft had to have visited? Perhaps neither of those possibilities is necessarily true... Read more
May 25, 2010 - Studying certain examples of ancient artwork, there appears to be good reason to believe that dinosaurs and humans must have coexisted. We look at several such examples to determine whether what we know of our planet's history must be wrong. Read more
May 18, 2010 - Are there mysterious plastic fibers coming out of your skin? Maybe you have Morgellons Disease, a recent development from the world of made-up medical conditions. Read more
May 11, 2010 - Some more listener feedback for you today, this time including what is quite possibly my favorite feedback email of all time. Read more
May 4, 2010 - Did you know that after WWII, escaped war criminal Josef Mengele continued his human experiments in South America and created a master race of twins in a small Brazilian town? A lot of people believe it. The question is whether what they think they know is true or not... Read more
Apr 27, 2010 - You'd think that therapeutic touch is probably pretty legitimate, as it's taught at nursing schools all over the world. But is it? Sure, if you're willing to overturn the fundamentals of many natural sciences. Anything based on the "energy field" fallacy is waving a big red flag at you. Read more
Apr 20, 2010 - Pumapunku is a structure within Bolivia's Tiwanaku, where the stonemasonry is said to be so advanced and precise that aliens must have assisted in its construction. Is it really that much more impressive than other constructions all around the world from the same period? Read more
Apr 13, 2010 - The Virgin of Guadalupe, often called Mexico's Shroud of Turin, is worshipped as a holy icon by much of Mexico, and dismissed as just another religious hoax by many skeptics. Its true history, however, is much richer than either of those popular treatments. Read more
Apr 6, 2010 - In episode #200 we discuss -- well heck, I'm just going to let you listen for yourself.
Apr 2, 2010 - Announcing a big milestone for Skeptoid: Episode #200 comes out next week. Learn how Skeptoid is made and find out what you can do to help. Listen now
Mar 30, 2010 - Some of the most famous cargo cults appeared in the South Pacific in the 20th century. Primitive people believed that if they recreated the conditions under which Westerners had previously brought goods, the gods would deliver more cargo to them. Read more
Mar 23, 2010 - The Georgia Guidestones, better known as "America's Stonehenge", reveal a message many have interpreted as instructions for how we should behave following the impending apocalypse. Read more
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