Category Archives: Skeptoid Podcast

Skeptoid Celebrity Honorable Mentions

In Skeptoid Episode 349, Brian covered his list of top 10 pro-science celebrities. He limited himself to a narrow band of celebrities/organizations that fulfilled a reasonable requirement. “Note that I chose not to include people whose profession is science or who / read more…

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3.15.2013

by Dani Johnson

Pseudo Alert! Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Complementary and alternative medicine practices are harmful to society because they take money from cancer patients that they could be using on real cancer treatments that actually work. Doctors spend years in college and medical school and even longer in / read more…

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12.10.2012

by Brian Dunning

Skeptoid Podcast Now Available in Mandarin Chinese

In a major expansion, the Skeptoid science podcast, in English since 2006, is now available in Mandarin on the Chinese iTunes Store and at http://skeptoid.com.cn. This effectively triples the potential listener base, making the award winning show available to more / read more…

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12.9.2012

by Brian Dunning

Skeptoid Wins “Best Science Podcast” Award

I am pleased and honored to announce that Skeptoid was the winner of “Best Science Podcast” at the first annual Stitcher podcast awards, announced on December 4, 2012 in San Francisco. Other nominees in the science category included shows from / read more…

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11.19.2012

by Sharon Hill

At last! An explanation for “The Bloop”

Frequently cited as an “insane mystery science hasn’t solved”, the bloop looks to have a reasonable explanation. Was it a mystery monster squid as most commonly thought? Sadly, no. First some background in case you haven’t heard about the bloop: Skeptoid / read more…

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7.9.2012

by Brian Dunning

Skeptoid’s Conservapedia Page

There is no way to not love the laserlike accuracy of Conservapedia. Here is their complete article about Skeptoid, as of July 9 2012: Skeptoid is a weekly podcast created and hosted by overweight atheist Brian Dunning. The show is / read more…

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6.27.2012

by Brian Dunning

iTunes to charge for podcasts?

It appears that Apple may be planning to create a system to monetize podcasts as part of iOS 6. To a professional podcaster, that’s very interesting. On the one hand, I want (and have always wanted) Skeptoid to be free. / read more…

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5.24.2012

by Brian Dunning

And the Winning T-Shirt Design Is…

The judging committee has met, thrown back an Irish beer or three, and torn through a pile of more than 50 contest entries. In going through them all, we found a great diversity of artistic styles and messaging. Some had / read more…

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5.1.2012

by Brian Dunning

Skeptoid T-Shirt Contest

Skeptoid needs new T-shirts. Although I’m really happy with those that we already have, we need to expand the collection into designs that are more commercial, and that people will actually want to wear around in public and look sharp / read more…

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4.18.2012

by Brian Dunning

Skeptoid Dramatic Pause Study

So it’s one of my little catch phrases on the podcast. A lot of times I’ll close an episode with “Whenever you see [some silly claim], you should always… [dramatic pause] be skeptical.” Well I guess I do it often / read more…

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