Episode Guide
| 5/21/13 | All About Graphology (Skeptoid #363) - Can handwriting analysis really tell us about the personality and aptitudes of the writer? Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 5/14/13 | Polybius: Video Game of Death (Skeptoid #362) - Did a 1981 video arcade game sicken players while government agents collected the data? Read | Listen (11:27) | Discuss |
| 5/7/13 | The 16 Personalities of Sybil (Skeptoid #361) - The book and movie "Sybil" told the story of a woman purported to have Multiple Personality Syndrome. Read | Listen (11:50) | Discuss |
| 4/30/13 | Lincoln Kennedy Myths (Skeptoid #360) - An old story claims a long list of astonishing similarities between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy. Read | Listen (11:07) | Discuss |
| 4/23/13 | Cupping for the Cure (Skeptoid #359) - Some believe that bruise-causing suction on the skin provides a variety of health benefits. Read | Listen (10:38) | Discuss |
| 4/16/13 | Listener Feedback: Aliens and UFOs (Skeptoid #358) - Skeptoid digs into the feedback mailbag and answers questions about aliens and UFOs. Read | Listen (10:02) | Discuss |
| 4/9/13 | The Aquatic Ape Theory (Skeptoid #357) - There is a popular fringe theory about human evolution that claims we went through an aquatic phase. Read | Listen (10:33) | Discuss |
| 4/2/13 | John Titor, Time Traveler (Skeptoid #356) - An Internet legend claims that a man named John Titor is a visitor from the year 2036. Read | Listen (10:42) | Discuss |
| 3/26/13 | The Airplane that Wasn't There (Skeptoid #355) - A B-25 bomber ditched in a Pennsylvania river in broad daylight 1956 and, seemingly impossibly, was never found. Read | Listen (13:27) | Discuss |
| 3/19/13 | The Pentagon and the Missile (Skeptoid #354) - Some say that it wasn't an airliner that struck the Pentagon on 9/11, but a missile. Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 3/12/13 | Pope Joan (Skeptoid #353) - Was a Middle Ages pope actually a woman in disguise? Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 3/5/13 | Facts and Fiction of the Schumann Resonance (Skeptoid #352) - This cavity in our atmosphere resonates radio frequency at 7.83 Hz. But is that all it does? Read | Listen (13:26) | Discuss |
| 2/26/13 | Men in Black (Skeptoid #351) - A look at the mysterious government agents said to intimidate those who witness flying saucers. Read | Listen (13:46) | Discuss |
| 2/19/13 | Trinity: Interview with Dr. Oz, Alex Jones, and Deepak Chopra (Skeptoid #350) - Skeptoid interviews three of the most popular and controversial figures in modern pseudoscience. Read | Listen (6:18) | Discuss |
| 2/12/13 | Top 10 Best Pro-Science Celebrities (Skeptoid #349) - A list of ten Hollywood celebrities who have leveraged their fame into the promotion of science. Read | Listen (12:34) | Discuss |
| 2/5/13 | Ganzfeld Experiments (Skeptoid #348) - The true history of the experiment that is said to present the strongest evidence yet for telepathic abilities. Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 1/29/13 | The Lost Dutchman Gold Mine (Skeptoid #347) - This most famous of all fabled "lost mines" has a history that fails to stand up to skeptical scrutiny. Read | Listen (14:38) | Discuss |
| 1/22/13 | Listener Feedback: Me and My Terrible Arguments (Skeptoid #346) - Skeptoid responds to another round of listener feedback. Read | Listen (12:56) | Discuss |
| 1/15/13 | The Cult of Nikola Tesla (Skeptoid #345) - The name of Nikola Tesla is associated with crazy conspiracy claims at least as much as with the real man and his real accomplishments. Read | Listen (14:52) | Discuss |
| 1/8/13 | Olgoi-Khorkhoi: The Mongolian Death Worm (Skeptoid #344) - Mongolian tradition holds that a strange and deadly worm lives beneath the sands of the Gobi desert. Read | Listen (12:54) | Discuss |
| 1/1/13 | The Hollow Earth Theory (Skeptoid #343) - Throughout history there have been a number of different beliefs that the Earth might be hollow. Read | Listen (13:00) | Discuss |
| 12/25/12 | Was the Wow! Signal Alien? (Skeptoid #342) - A signal received by a radio telescope in 1977 may be the best evidence yet for extraterrestrial intelligence. Read | Listen (12:16) | Discuss |
| 12/18/12 | Free Energy Machines (Skeptoid #341) - Some believe they've cracked the secret of free energy forever with no fuel needed. Is it true? Read | Listen (12:39) | Discuss |
| 12/11/12 | Listener Feedback: A Cacophony of Conspiracies (Skeptoid #340) - How you can convince your friends that their conspiracy theories are nonsensical. Read | Listen (10:58) | Discuss |
| 12/9/12 | Skeptoid in Chinese - Skeptoid is now available in Chinese at http://skeptoid.com.cn Listen (1:11) |
| 12/4/12 | Setting the Bloop Straight (Skeptoid #339) - The solution to the Bloop mystery sound is finally revealed, and Skeptoid corrects some errors from other episodes. Read | Listen (13:03) | Discuss |
| 11/27/12 | The Flat Earth Theory (Skeptoid #338) - Rumor has it some people think the Earth is flat. Do they really? And have they ever really? Read | Listen (12:41) | Discuss |
| 11/20/12 | The Bermuda Triangle and the Devil's Sea (Skeptoid #337) - Two regions of ocean are said to be mysteriously dangerous. What's the truth behind this popular belief? Read | Listen (13:37) | Discuss |
| 11/13/12 | How to Tell a Good Website from a Crap Website (Skeptoid #336) - When you find a science article on the web, how do you know whether it's reliable or not? Read | Listen (13:33) | Discuss |
| 11/6/12 | Cleansing Diets: Why or Why Not? (Skeptoid #335) - Cleansing diets are trendier than ever. But do they actually provide any of the claimed benefits? Read | Listen (14:24) | Discuss |
| 10/30/12 | The Betz Mystery Sphere (Skeptoid #334) - A mysterious silver ball that seemed to move on its own came to a Florida family in 1974. Was it alien? Read | Listen (12:05) | Discuss |
| 10/23/12 | Student Questions: Dancing Plague and the Cinnamon Challenge (Skeptoid #333) - Skeptoid answers another round of student questions sent in from all around the world. Read | Listen (12:38) | Discuss |
| 10/16/12 | The Phantom Time Hypothesis (Skeptoid #332) - A number of theories claim that several centuries never actually happened, and were faked by the Church. Read | Listen (13:17) | Discuss |
| 10/9/12 | The Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter (Skeptoid #331) - A rural family spent half a night battling what they thought were space aliens. Read | Listen (13:02) | Discuss |
| 10/2/12 | Hypnotism: Hijacking Your Brain? (Skeptoid #330) - The facts and the fiction of one of the most intriguing psychological phenomena. Read | Listen (12:29) | Discuss |
| 9/25/12 | Is She Real, or Is She Fictional? (Skeptoid #329) - A look at some famous women through history. Do you know who's real and who's not? Read | Listen (15:48) | Discuss |
| 9/18/12 | Secrets of the Stradivarius (Skeptoid #328) - What is the secret of the incomparable sound of history's greatest stringed instrument, the Stradivarius violin? Read | Listen (12:10) | Discuss |
| 9/11/12 | Raiding the Ark of the Covenant (Skeptoid #327) - The true history of the most famous holy relic from Biblical times. Read | Listen (11:53) | Discuss |
| 9/4/12 | The Mystery of the Vitrified Forts (Skeptoid #326) - About sixty prehistoric stone forts in Scotland have vitrified walls, where the stone was melted into glass. How was it done? Read | Listen (12:23) | Discuss |
| 8/28/12 | The Golden Ratio (Skeptoid #325) - For centuries, claims both scientific and pseudoscientific have been made for the golden ratio. Read | Listen (13:18) | Discuss |
| 8/21/12 | Listener Feedback: That Darned Science (Skeptoid #324) - Skeptoid responds to some listener emails that question the validity of the scientific method. Read | Listen (12:51) | Discuss |
| 8/14/12 | 8 Spooky Places, and Why They're Like That (Skeptoid #323) - These strange places around the world rank among the most macabre, but have interesting explanations. Read | Listen (13:20) | Discuss |
| 8/7/12 | Negative Calorie Food Myths (Skeptoid #322) - Negative calorie foods, said to require more energy to digest than they provide, are a popular food fad. Read | Listen (11:28) | Discuss |
| 7/31/12 | Skinwalkers (Skeptoid #321) - Navajo witches are said to be able to shapeshift into animals. Is it just a tall tale, or is there some truth to it? Read | Listen (13:55) | Discuss |
| 7/24/12 | The Suicide Dogs of Overtoun Bridge (Skeptoid #320) - There's a bridge in Scotland where dogs are said to deliberately commit suicide. Read | Listen (11:36) | Discuss |
| 7/17/12 | Student Questions: Food Woo and Iron Man at the Airport (Skeptoid #319) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (10:54) | Discuss |
| 7/10/12 | The Loch Ness Monster (Skeptoid #318) - The world's most famous cryptid is said to swim in Scotland's most famous loch. Read | Listen (12:22) | Discuss |
| 7/3/12 | Attack of the Nanobots! (Skeptoid #317) - Is it possible for nanotechnology to result in an army of self-replicating machines that consume and destroy our society? Read | Listen (13:34) | Discuss |
| 6/28/12 | New Skeptoid Books! - Skeptoid announces two new paperbacks: "Astronauts, Aliens, and Ape-Men" plus "The Secret of the Gypsy Queen". Listen (1:58) |
| 6/26/12 | Al-Ghazali and Arab-Islamic Science (Skeptoid #316) - Some say that Persian theologian al-Ghazali was solely responsible for the end of the Golden Age of science. Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 6/19/12 | The Tehran 1976 UFO (Skeptoid #315) - Declassified military documents show that Iranian fighter planes engaged a UFO in 1976. What really happened? Read | Listen (15:01) | Discuss |
| 6/12/12 | Botches and Bungles (Skeptoid #314) - Skeptoid goes back and corrects some errors from previous episodes. Read | Listen (11:07) | Discuss |
| 6/5/12 | Area 51 Facts and Fiction (Skeptoid #313) - Some say alien spacecraft are tested at Nevada's legendary Area 51 site; what does history have to say? Read | Listen (12:47) | Discuss |
| 6/1/12 | The Amazing Meeting 2012 - This summer in Las Vegas, I am going to make your brain fail. Listen (1:52) |
| 5/29/12 | Student Questions: Marauding Mammoths and Queen Elizabeth the Man (Skeptoid #312) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (11:37) | Discuss |
| 5/22/12 | The Rothschild Conspiracy (Skeptoid #311) - Some believe that world governments and economies are secretly controlled by the Rothschild banking family. Read | Listen (14:40) | Discuss |
| 5/15/12 | Left Handed Myths and Facts (Skeptoid #310) - There are many popular anecdotes about how and why some people are left-handed, but the true facts are even more interesting. Read | Listen (13:42) | Discuss |
| 5/8/12 | The Science and Politics of Global Warming (Skeptoid #309) - Global warming is the poster boy for failed science communication. What went wrong? Read | Listen (12:20) | Discuss |
| 5/1/12 | Picnic at Hanging Rock (Skeptoid #308) - Is this classic tale of the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls fact or fiction? Read | Listen (11:25) | Discuss |
| 4/24/12 | The Siberian Hell Sounds (Skeptoid #307) - Russian scientists are said to have drilled a borehole that broke into hell and released the screams of the damned. Read | Listen (13:05) | Discuss |
| 4/17/12 | Listener Feedback XX (Skeptoid #306) - Skeptoid dips into the feedback mailbag to respond to comments from listeners. Read | Listen (12:11) | Discuss |
| 4/10/12 | I Can't Believe They Did That: Human Guinea Pigs (Skeptoid #305) - A look at some of history's most famous scientists who experimented upon themselves. Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 4/3/12 | Catching Jack the Ripper (Skeptoid #304) - A look at what is and isn't known about history's most infamous serial killer. Read | Listen (12:28) | Discuss |
| 3/27/12 | Are Vinyl Recordings Better than Digital? (Skeptoid #303) - Many audio aficionados split into two camps, those supporting modern digital audio, and those supporting vinyl records. Read | Listen (12:14) | Discuss |
| 3/20/12 | De Loys' Ape (Skeptoid #302) - A geologist claimed to have discovered a new species of great ape in Venezuela in the early 20th century. Read | Listen (12:02) | Discuss |
| 3/13/12 | The Beale Ciphers (Skeptoid #301) - Treasure hunters comb Virginia search for a legendary hoard of gold and silver. Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 3/6/12 | The Secret of the Gypsy Queen (Skeptoid #300) - In which a little girl saves her kingdom when she is the only one who does not fall for the pop pseudoscience of the day. Read | Listen (14:09) | Discuss |
| 3/2/12 | Announcing Skeptoid Episode 300 - A big milestone... Listen (4:39) |
| 2/28/12 | Star Jelly (Skeptoid #299) - Jellylike blobs have been reported to fall from the sky during meteor showers. What are they? Read | Listen (12:07) | Discuss |
| 2/21/12 | Student Questions: Free Energy and Faster-than-Light Neutrinos (Skeptoid #298) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all over the world. Read | Listen (12:29) | Discuss |
| 2/14/12 | A Magical Journey through the Land of Reasoning Errors (Skeptoid #297) - Four common types of analytical errors in reasoning that we all need to beware of. Read | Listen (11:49) | Discuss |
| 2/7/12 | The Versailles Time Slip (Skeptoid #296) - Did two women visiting Versaille in 1901 time-travel back to the days of Marie Antoinette? Read | Listen (13:46) | Discuss |
| 1/31/12 | Finding Amelia Earhart (Skeptoid #295) - Popular modern reports claim Amelia Earhart made it to an island and survived for a time. Might that be true? Read | Listen (13:05) | Discuss |
| 1/24/12 | Frequent Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #294) - Skeptoid answers some listener emails that present common flaws in scientific thinking. Read | Listen (12:13) | Discuss |
| 1/17/12 | Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons (Skeptoid #293) - Did the Nazis really have super-advanced technology, even anti-gravity flying saucers? Read | Listen (13:48) | Discuss |
| 1/10/12 | The Grey Man of Ben MacDhui (Skeptoid #292) - A thin, dark phantom three times the height of a man is said to stalk this peak in the Cairngorms. Read | Listen (12:26) | Discuss |
| 1/3/12 | The Toxic Lady (Skeptoid #291) - In 1994, fumes from a woman's body knocked out most of an emergency room staff. What happened? Read | Listen (12:37) | Discuss |
| 12/27/11 | Approaching a Subject Skeptically (Skeptoid #290) - My process for examining a new topic, to learn whether it's fact or fiction. Read | Listen (10:44) | Discuss |
| 12/20/11 | The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (Skeptoid #289) - The facts, as we know them, about what really happened to maritime lore's most famous missing crew. Read | Listen (12:05) | Discuss |
| 12/13/11 | Pit Bull Attack! (Skeptoid #288) - Pit bulls have a reputation for being the most dangerous dog breed. Is this reputation deserved? Read | Listen (12:13) | Discuss |
| 12/6/11 | Korean Fan Death (Skeptoid #287) - An urban legend in Korea states that running an electric fan at night can kill you. Read | Listen (12:38) | Discuss |
| 11/29/11 | Listener Feedback: Dorothy and Her Straw Man (Skeptoid #286) - Skeptoid responds to some feedback emails notable for their dependence on straw man arguments. Read | Listen (11:00) | Discuss |
| 11/22/11 | Slips and Goofs (Skeptoid #285) - Skeptoid corrects another round of errors found in previous episodes. Read | Listen (11:42) | Discuss |
| 11/15/11 | The Fate of Fletcher Christian (Skeptoid #284) - Did the leader of the Bounty mutineers die on Pitcairn Island, or did he eventually make it back to England? Read | Listen (11:42) | Discuss |
| 11/8/11 | Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites (Skeptoid #283) - My list of the worst offenders on the web in the promotion of scientific and factual misinformation. Read | Listen (14:50) | Discuss |
| 11/1/11 | The Jersey Devil (Skeptoid #282) - This creature has been haunting New Jersey for nearly 300 years. From whence did it come? Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 10/25/11 | The Science of Voting (Skeptoid #281) - Are democratic elections actually as free and fair as we think they are? Read | Listen (11:03) | Discuss |
| 10/18/11 | Finding Shakespeare (Skeptoid #280) - Was William Shakespeare the author of his own works, or was he merely someone else's pseudonym? Read | Listen (12:25) | Discuss |
| 10/11/11 | Noah's Ark: Sea Trials (Skeptoid #279) - Could a wooden vessel like Noah's Ark actually have been made seaworthy? Read | Listen (12:11) | Discuss |
| 10/4/11 | Brainwashing and Deprogramming (Skeptoid #278) - Can people really be brainwashed, and then deprogrammed back to who they were before? Read | Listen (11:43) | Discuss |
| 9/27/11 | Student Questions: A Few Good Myths (Skeptoid #277) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (11:24) | Discuss |
| 9/20/11 | The Monster of Glamis (Skeptoid #276) - Did a living beast actually haunt Scotland's Glamis Castle for the better part of a century? Read | Listen (13:15) | Discuss |
| 9/13/11 | All About Fracking (Skeptoid #275) - Hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells incites powerful emotions. How much of the hype is justified? Read | Listen (13:36) | Discuss |
| 9/6/11 | Listener Feedback Revolutions (Skeptoid #274) - Another batch of listener emails answered and dissected. And served. Read | Listen (12:48) | Discuss |
| 8/30/11 | Wi-Fi, Smart Meters, and Other Radio Bogeymen (Skeptoid #273) - Are common radio transmitters carcinogenic or otherwise harmful? Read | Listen (12:34) | Discuss |
| 8/23/11 | Are We Alone? (Skeptoid #272) - Are we alone in the galaxy, or might we have been visited by other civilizations? Read | Listen (11:52) | Discuss |
| 8/16/11 | The Zionist Conspiracy (Skeptoid #271) - Are the rumors true that Jews are planning to take over the world's governments and banks? Read | Listen (12:47) | Discuss |
| 8/9/11 | The Hessdalen Lights (Skeptoid #270) - Scientists seek a high-tech explanation for these ghost lights in Norway. But is the true cause much simpler? Read | Listen (12:51) | Discuss |
| 8/2/11 | The Abominable Snowman (Skeptoid #269) - How likely is it that the Yeti of the Himalayas is a real creature? Read | Listen (12:11) | Discuss |
| 7/26/11 | Student Questions: Energy Shots and Sunscreen (Skeptoid #268) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students. Read | Listen (11:39) | Discuss |
| 7/19/11 | Zeno's Paradoxes (Skeptoid #267) - Greek philosopher Zeno proved that movement was impossible with a few simple paradoxes. Read | Listen (12:11) | Discuss |
| 7/12/11 | Feedback through a Fine Toothed Comb (Skeptoid #266) - Skeptoid does some microsurgery on the logical fallacies presented in some listener feedback. Read | Listen (11:24) | Discuss |
| 7/5/11 | "Curing" Gays (Skeptoid #265) - Do therapies intended to help gays become straight actually work? Read | Listen (13:33) | Discuss |
| 6/28/11 | Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Crazy (Skeptoid #264) - We usually dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy people; but that doesn't tell the whole story. Read | Listen (11:52) | Discuss |
| 6/21/11 | Anastasia (Skeptoid #263) - Did the Grand Duchess Anastasia survive her family's 1918 execution, and go on to live in the United States? Read | Listen (12:25) | Discuss |
| 6/14/11 | The Haitian Zombies (Skeptoid #262) - Are Haiti's legendary zombies real, or just an imagination fiction? Read | Listen (13:08) | Discuss |
| 6/7/11 | Near Death Experiences (Skeptoid #261) - A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife. Read | Listen (12:19) | Discuss |
| 5/31/11 | Military Dolphins: James Bonds of the Sea (Skeptoid #260) - Are dolphins actually trained to attack divers and place limpet mines on ships? Read | Listen (12:14) | Discuss |
| 5/24/11 | Mao's Barefoot Doctors: The Secret History of Chinese Medicine (Skeptoid #259) - Westerners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine is due in part to being duped by book publishers. Read | Listen (12:51) | Discuss |
| 5/17/11 | Spontaneous Human Combustion (Skeptoid #258) - People can catch on fire... but can it really happen when there is no external source of ignition? Read | Listen (12:01) | Discuss |
| 5/10/11 | The Secret of Plum Island (Skeptoid #257) - Does this secret government lab really create genetic mutants and biological weapons? Read | Listen (12:26) | Discuss |
| 5/3/11 | Student Questions: Supermoons and an Apple a Day (Skeptoid #256) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students from around the world. Read | Listen (11:34) | Discuss |
| 4/26/11 | Superhuman Strength during a Crisis (Skeptoid #255) - Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. Can the human body really do such feats? Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 4/19/11 | Finding the POW/MIAs (Skeptoid #254) - Are American POW/MIAs still being held captive inside Vietnam? Read | Listen (12:50) | Discuss |
| 4/12/11 | The Port Arthur Massacre (Skeptoid #253) - Was a 1996 mass murder in Tasmania secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned? Read | Listen (12:09) | Discuss |
| 4/5/11 | The Voynich Manuscript (Skeptoid #252) - The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book. Read | Listen (13:48) | Discuss |
| 3/29/11 | Listener Feedback: Nobody Ever Posts Twice (Skeptoid #251) - Skeptoid answers more listener feedback. Recorded live at the 250th Episode party. Read | Listen (15:21) | Discuss |
| 3/22/11 | The History of Knowledge (Skeptoid #250) - A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music. Read | Listen (11:33) | Discuss |
| 3/15/11 | Student Questions: Airport X-Rays, Shampoo, and the Moon (Skeptoid #249) - Skeptoid answers another round of science questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (12:13) | Discuss |
| 3/8/11 | The Exorcism of Anneliese (Skeptoid #248) - Can exorcisms such as the one that killed Anneliese Michel truly help critically ill people? Read | Listen (13:08) | Discuss |
| 3/1/11 | The Miracle of Calanda (Skeptoid #247) - They say God doesn't heal amputees... but apparently he did, once. Or did he? Read | Listen (11:34) | Discuss |
| 2/22/11 | Corrections, Errata, Blunders, and Boo-Boos (Skeptoid #246) - Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs. Read | Listen (11:53) | Discuss |
| 2/15/11 | Finding the Lost Colony of Roanoke (Skeptoid #245) - One of the early attempts of the English to colonize America ended with every person simply disappearing from the Roanoke colony. Read | Listen (12:17) | Discuss |
| 2/8/11 | Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter (Skeptoid #244) - Will atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war result in devastating global cooling? Read | Listen (11:49) | Discuss |
| 2/1/11 | Student Questions: Orbo, EVPs, and Shakespeare (Skeptoid #243) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (12:04) | Discuss |
| 1/25/11 | Scientology (Skeptoid #242) - The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory. Read | Listen (13:08) | Discuss |
| 1/18/11 | The Alien Buried in Texas (Skeptoid #241) - Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas. Read | Listen (12:05) | Discuss |
| 1/11/11 | Mystery Spots (Skeptoid #240) - Are the various "mystery spots" around the world actually gravitational anomalies, or might the explanation lie elsewhere? Read | Listen (12:02) | Discuss |
| 1/4/11 | Gluten Free Diets (Skeptoid #239) - Are gluten free diets really good for your general wellness? Read | Listen (11:46) | Discuss |
| 12/28/10 | More Hollywood Myths (Skeptoid #238) - Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors. Read | Listen (11:39) | Discuss |
| 12/21/10 | Hollywood Myths (Skeptoid #237) - Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true. Read | Listen (11:30) | Discuss |
| 12/14/10 | Whales and Sonar (Skeptoid #236) - Navy sonar is said to be lethal to whales. What does the latest research actually tell us? Read | Listen (12:59) | Discuss |
| 12/7/10 | IQ Testing (Skeptoid #235) - How valid are IQ tests, what do they really measure, and where do you fit in? Read | Listen (13:22) | Discuss |
| 11/30/10 | The South Atlantic Anomaly (Skeptoid #234) - Was this mysterious region in the south Atlantic responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447? Read | Listen (11:36) | Discuss |
| 11/23/10 | Student Questions: Bird Gender and Bad Karma (Skeptoid #233) - Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (10:12) | Discuss |
| 11/16/10 | Listener Feedback Rides Again (Skeptoid #232) - A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane. Read | Listen (11:22) | Discuss |
| 11/9/10 | The Mystery of STENDEC (Skeptoid #231) - What was the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash? Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 11/2/10 | DDT: Secret Life of a Pesticide (Skeptoid #230) - Is DDT a killer of birds, a savior against malaria, or a little of each? Read | Listen (13:42) | Discuss |
| 10/26/10 | Speed Reading (Skeptoid #229) - Speed reading classes claim to be able to turbocharge your words per minute. Is this really possible? Read | Listen (11:28) | Discuss |
| 10/19/10 | My Favorite Things (Skeptoid #228) - A few of my favorite moments looking back on 228 Skeptoid episodes. Read | Listen (11:06) | Discuss |
| 10/15/10 | History of the Egg - Skeptoid Fan Music by Nate Kelley Listen (1:58) |
| 10/12/10 | Boost Your Immune System (or Not) (Skeptoid #227) - Is "boosting your immune system" for real? Is that possible, and can you really buy it in a bottle? Read | Listen (11:58) | Discuss |
| 10/5/10 | The Brown Mountain Lights (Skeptoid #226) - A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads. What's the explanation? Read | Listen (14:47) | Discuss |
| 9/28/10 | Beware the Bilderberg Group! (Skeptoid #225) - Once a year, the world's top power brokers meet. Are they really planning Global Domination? Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 9/21/10 | Alien Downpour: The Red Rain of India (Skeptoid #224) - News agencies have long been promoting a 2001 red rainfall as being of alien origin. What's the evidence? Read | Listen (12:23) | Discuss |
| 9/14/10 | The Frog in the Stone (Skeptoid #223) - Stories abound of living frogs being found encased in solid rock. What's really going on here? Read | Listen (12:49) | Discuss |
| 9/7/10 | Toil and Trouble: The Curse of Macbeth (Skeptoid #222) - The Curse of Macbeth should make Shakespeare's play too dangerous to perform. Is this the case? Read | Listen (11:31) | Discuss |
| 8/31/10 | The Myers-Briggs Personality Test (Skeptoid #221) - A critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Read | Listen (13:10) | Discuss |
| 8/24/10 | Yonaguni Monument: The Japanese Atlantis (Skeptoid #220) - A look at a massive stone structure off the coast of Japan, said to be a manmade pyramid. Read | Listen (11:53) | Discuss |
| 8/17/10 | Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrids (Skeptoid #219) - Did Josef Stalin order the creation of an army of half-ape, half-human hybrids, and did these experiments take place? Read | Listen (13:14) | Discuss |
| 8/10/10 | The Astronauts and the Aliens (Skeptoid #218) - A close look at some of the stories of UFOs said to have been reported by NASA astronauts. Read | Listen (12:53) | Discuss |
| 8/3/10 | Some New Logical Fallacies (Skeptoid #217) - Skeptoid looks at some newer logical fallacies, often used in place of sound arguments. Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 7/27/10 | The Things We Eat... (Skeptoid #216) - Do you really know which kinds of food are good for you, and which are bad? Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 7/20/10 | Listener Feedback Resurrection (Skeptoid #215) - More vitriol from the Skeptoid inbox exposed. Read | Listen (12:19) | Discuss |
| 7/13/10 | Student Questions: Gold as an Investment and FEMA Coffins (Skeptoid #214) - Another round of answering questions sent in by students everywhere. Read | Listen (11:38) | Discuss |
| 7/6/10 | Mozart and Salieri (Skeptoid #213) - Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart actually murdered by his rival composer Antonio Salieri? Read | Listen (13:29) | Discuss |
| 6/29/10 | Things About Which I Have In Error Been (Skeptoid #212) - More additions to the corrections and errata files for Skeptoid. Read | Listen (12:13) | Discuss |
| 6/22/10 | Attack on Pearl Harbor (Skeptoid #211) - Did the American government have advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and allow it to happen? Read | Listen (13:29) | Discuss |
| 6/15/10 | The North American Union (Skeptoid #210) - Are the United States, Canada, and Mexico planning to merge into a single huge police state? Read | Listen (12:52) | Discuss |
| 6/8/10 | The Lost Ship of the Desert (Skeptoid #209) - The facts behind tall tales from the American southwest of ships found in the middle of the desert. Read | Listen (11:09) | Discuss |
| 6/1/10 | The Westall '66 UFO (Skeptoid #208) - 200 students watched a strange craft fly near their school in Australia in 1966. What did they see? Read | Listen (14:35) | Discuss |
| 5/25/10 | Dinosaurs Among Us (Skeptoid #207) - Are some examples of ancient art proof that dinosaurs and humans coexisted? Read | Listen (11:49) | Discuss |
| 5/18/10 | Morgellons Disease (Skeptoid #206) - In this newly described condition, some patients report strange plastic fibers growing from their skin. Read | Listen (11:57) | Discuss |
| 5/11/10 | Beyond Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #205) - Another trip to the Listener Feedback files, including my favorite yet. Read | Listen (12:13) | Discuss |
| 5/4/10 | Mengele's Boys from Brazil (Skeptoid #204) - Is the unusually high twin rate of a town in Brazil due to continued medical experiments by Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi Angel of Death? Read | Listen (12:15) | Discuss |
| 4/27/10 | Therapeutic Touch (Skeptoid #203) - Therapeutic touch is a healing method that presumes the existence of a huge magnetic field around the human body. Is there really such a field? Read | Listen (12:57) | Discuss |
| 4/20/10 | The Mystery of Pumapunku (Skeptoid #202) - Were the stone structures at Pumapunku truly so advanced that the ancient Tiwanakans could not have made them unassisted? Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 4/13/10 | The Virgin of Guadalupe (Skeptoid #201) - Is the Virgin of Guadalupe a miraculous apparition, a dismissable religious icon, or does it have more importance? Read | Listen (14:50) | Discuss |
| 4/6/10 | Buy It! (Skeptoid #200) - Don't blindly turn to science when you need answers - instead, seek out those who want to sell you something. Read | Listen (3:13) | Discuss |
| 4/2/10 | Announcing Skeptoid #200 - Skeptoid hits a milestone: 200 episodes. Listen (13:05) |
| 3/30/10 | Cargo Cults (Skeptoid #199) - We point the skeptical eye at native religious groups in the South Pacific hoping to recreate WWII's influx of material goods. Read | Listen (12:17) | Discuss |
| 3/23/10 | The Georgia Guidestones (Skeptoid #198) - Dubbed "America's Stonehenge", this granite monument in Georgia appeals to all sorts of conspiracy theorists. Read | Listen (12:33) | Discuss |
| 3/16/10 | Listener Feedback Strikes Back (Skeptoid #197) - Another perilous dive into the listener feedback files. Read | Listen (11:57) | Discuss |
| 3/9/10 | Zeitgeist: The Movie, Myths, and Motivations (Skeptoid #196) - The Internet movie Zeitgeist uses flagrant dishonesty to make an ideological point that could have easily been made ethically. Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 3/2/10 | Student Questions: Mosquito Repellent and Einstein's Gestation (Skeptoid #195) - Skeptoid answers more questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (11:55) | Discuss |
| 2/23/10 | The Denver Airport Conspiracy (Skeptoid #194) - Is the Denver International Airport really a headquarters for the New World Order? Read | Listen (14:25) | Discuss |
| 2/16/10 | The Faces of Belmez (Skeptoid #193) - Faces appearing on the floor of a house in Spain were easily proven to have been faked - why does their story carry so much ongoing influence? Read | Listen (11:15) | Discuss |
| 2/9/10 | Ball Lightning (Skeptoid #192) - We've all heard of it, we all believe it exists - but what does science have to say? Read | Listen (11:58) | Discuss |
| 2/2/10 | Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids? (Skeptoid #191) - It's a popular story, but all the documentary and historical evidence tells us that no Jews were in Egypt at the time of the pyramids. Read | Listen (12:30) | Discuss |
| 1/26/10 | The Bell Island Boom (Skeptoid #190) - Was the cause of this shattering boom in Newfoundland natural, or a test of a superweapon? Read | Listen (12:02) | Discuss |
| 1/19/10 | Martial Arts Magic (Skeptoid #189) - Some call it Bullshido: Martial arts tricks like touchless attacks and the Touch of Death. Read | Listen (11:57) | Discuss |
| 1/12/10 | Student Questions: String Theory, the Asian Flush, and the Peltzman Effect (Skeptoid #188) - Skeptoid answers some questions sent in by students around the world. Read | Listen (12:21) | Discuss |
| 1/5/10 | Emergency Handbook: What to Do When a Friend Loves Woo (Skeptoid #187) - How you can help a friend or loved one with a potentially harmful pseudoscientific belief Read | Listen (11:58) | Discuss |
| 12/29/09 | More Things I'm Wrong About (Skeptoid #186) - Going back over a few previous Skeptoid episodes to correct errors (head is hung in shame). Read | Listen (12:01) | Discuss |
| 12/22/09 | Is Barefoot Better? (Skeptoid #185) - Some advocate that going barefoot is better for the health and strength of your feet. Read | Listen (12:27) | Discuss |
| 12/15/09 | The Antikythera Mechanism (Skeptoid #184) - Does this ancient device, 1000 years ahead of its time, prove we were visited by aliens or time travelers? Read | Listen (12:06) | Discuss |
| 12/8/09 | The Naga Fireballs (Skeptoid #183) - What is the source of the glowing balls that rise from the Mekong river each October? Read | Listen (12:38) | Discuss |
| 12/1/09 | Listener Feedback X (Skeptoid #182) - Another dip into the listener feedback files for Skeptoid. Read | Listen (11:22) | Discuss |
| 11/24/09 | The Baigong Pipes (Skeptoid #181) - Do modern metal pipes buried in ancient Chinese stone prove that aliens must have visited? Read | Listen (11:16) | Discuss |
| 11/17/09 | Vaccine Ingredients (Skeptoid #180) - Do vaccines really contain the horrifying poisons claimed by antivaccine activists? Read | Listen (12:50) | Discuss |
| 11/10/09 | The Scole Experiment (Skeptoid #179) - Said to be the best evidence yet for the afterlife -- but how good is that evidence? Read | Listen (12:11) | Discuss |
| 11/3/09 | Student Questions: The Montauk Monster and Bee Sting Therapy (Skeptoid #178) - Skeptoid answers some more questions sent in by students, on a variety of short topics. Read | Listen (11:49) | Discuss |
| 10/27/09 | The Bloop (Skeptoid #177) - A mysterious sound captured by NOAA hydrophones... could it be a sea monster? Read | Listen (14:48) | Discuss |
| 10/20/09 | Network Marketing (Skeptoid #176) - Call them Network Marketing, Multilevel Marketing, or MLM, these pyramid plans are proven not to work. Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 10/13/09 | Shadow People (Skeptoid #175) - What are some likely explanations for these shadowy ghosts? Read | Listen (12:25) | Discuss |
| 10/6/09 | More Medical Myths (Skeptoid #174) - More myths about the human body that you've always heard, and probably believe. Read | Listen (11:31) | Discuss |
| 9/29/09 | All About Astrology (Skeptoid #173) - Does astrology have any plausible foundations; and does it actually work? Read | Listen (15:23) | Discuss |
| 9/22/09 | Daylight Saving Time Myths (Skeptoid #172) - What does daylight saving time really do for us, and what are the real reasons we have it? Read | Listen (11:10) | Discuss |
| 9/15/09 | The Battle of Los Angeles (Skeptoid #171) - At the beginning of WWII, the American defense forces in Los Angeles fought a battle against a UFO. Read | Listen (11:25) | Discuss |
| 9/8/09 | It's Raining Frogs and Fish (Skeptoid #170) - What's the real explanation of frogs and fish raining from the sky? Hint: It's not waterspouts. Read | Listen (11:20) | Discuss |
| 9/1/09 | Bride of Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #169) - More replies to some of Skeptoid's more colorful listener feedback. Read | Listen (11:35) | Discuss |
| 8/28/09 | Announcing New Video Series: inFact - inFact is a proposed new web video series from Brian Dunning. Listen (2:26) |
| 8/25/09 | Decrypting the Mormon Book of Abraham (Skeptoid #168) - Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith allegedly translated the adventures of Abraham in Egypt. Read | Listen (12:23) | Discuss |
| 8/18/09 | Should Science Debate Pseudoscience? (Skeptoid #167) - Do debates against pseudoscience advance the cause of science, or do they do more harm than good? Read | Listen (11:34) | Discuss |
| 8/11/09 | Organic vs. Conventional Agriculture (Skeptoid #166) - Is organic agriculture truly safer or better for the environment than modern farming? Read | Listen (15:48) | Discuss |
| 8/4/09 | Real or Fictional: Food and Fashion (Skeptoid #165) - See if you can tell whether these food and fashion products are named after real people or fictitious people. Read | Listen (14:45) | Discuss |
| 7/28/09 | What's Up with the Rosicrucians? (Skeptoid #164) - Are they truly an ancient mystical order, or merely a mail-order New Age literature business? Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 7/21/09 | How to Make Skepticism Commercial (Skeptoid #163) - Critical thinking offers the opposite of what seems to be popular. How do we get people to want it? Read | Listen (11:17) | Discuss |
| 7/14/09 | Locally Grown Produce (Skeptoid #162) - Is locally grown produce as green as its proponents seem to think it is? Read | Listen (12:41) | Discuss |
| 7/7/09 | Listener Feedback Episode VIII: No New Hope (Skeptoid #161) - Some more jabs and punches between Skeptoid and its most vocal listeners. Read | Listen (12:46) | Discuss |
| 6/30/09 | Sarah Palin Is Not Stupid (Skeptoid #160) - Is an ad hominem attack really the best way to express disagreement? Read | Listen (10:26) | Discuss |
| 6/23/09 | The Mothman Cometh (Skeptoid #159) - A skeptical look at the Mothman, an alleged prophet of disaster. Read | Listen (11:15) | Discuss |
| 6/16/09 | Student Questions: Swine Flu and Depleted Uranium (Skeptoid #158) - Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students all around the world. Read | Listen (13:07) | Discuss |
| 6/9/09 | High Fructose Corn Syrup: Toxic or Tame? (Skeptoid #157) - A skeptical look at whether high fructose corn syrup is really any worse for you than sugar. Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 6/2/09 | Falling into Mel's Hole (Skeptoid #156) - Mel's Hole is said to be a mysterious bottomless pit in eastern Washington state. Read | Listen (11:03) | Discuss |
| 5/26/09 | NLP: Neuro-linguistic Programming (Skeptoid #155) - Is Neuro-linguistic Programming really a scientific psychotherapy breakthrough, or just a New Age self-help trend? Read | Listen (12:03) | Discuss |
| 5/19/09 | Was Chuck Yeager the First to Break the Sound Barrier? (Skeptoid #154) - We all know that Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, but did others beat him to it? Read | Listen (17:24) | Discuss |
| 5/12/09 | Revenge of the Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #153) - Another peek into the mailbag to see who loves us, and who hates us. Read | Listen (12:01) | Discuss |
| 5/5/09 | Attack of the Globsters! (Skeptoid #152) - Are mysterious blobs of flesh washed up on the world's beaches really unworthy of skeptical attention? Read | Listen (12:39) | Discuss |
| 4/28/09 | The Placebo Effect (Skeptoid #151) - We all know what placebos can't do; how about what they can do? Read | Listen (13:04) | Discuss |
| 4/21/09 | Screwed! (Skeptoid #150) - A secret recording of an actual meeting of the Illuminati. Read | Listen (9:40) | Discuss |
| 4/14/09 | Coral Castle (Skeptoid #149) - Was one man able to move these huge coral blocks using some unknown technology? Read | Listen (11:41) | Discuss |
| 4/7/09 | Student Questions: Zero Point Energy and Missing Time (Skeptoid #148) - Skeptoid answers some interesting questions sent in by students. Read | Listen (13:02) | Discuss |
| 3/31/09 | Binaural Beats: Digital Drugs (Skeptoid #147) - The science behind binaural beats: What they are, what they are claimed to do, and what they can actually do. Read | Listen (12:02) | Discuss |
| 3/24/09 | How Old Is the Mount St. Helens Lava Dome? (Skeptoid #146) - Young Earthers point to an infamous dating error as evidence that the Earth is only as old as the Bible says. Read | Listen (13:00) | Discuss |
| 3/17/09 | FEMA Prison Camps (Skeptoid #145) - A skeptical look at the claim that FEMA maintains a network of prison camps in readiness. Read | Listen (11:50) | Discuss |
| 3/10/09 | The Case of the Strange Skulls (Skeptoid #144) - A collection of bizarre human skulls from around the world. Read | Listen (15:13) | Discuss |
| 3/3/09 | The Lucifer Project (Skeptoid #143) - Some believe that NASA is trying to turn Saturn or Jupiter into a small sun. Read | Listen (12:33) | Discuss |
| 2/24/09 | Student Questions: Sugary Behavior, Secondhand Smoke, and Wal-Mart (Skeptoid #142) - Answering more questions sent in by students. Read | Listen (13:35) | Discuss |
| 2/17/09 | Listener Feedback 6: I Want to Believe (Skeptoid #141) - More fun from the listener feedback files. Read | Listen (11:40) | Discuss |
| 2/10/09 | The Bosnian Pyramids (Skeptoid #140) - Does the world's oldest and largest ancient pyramid stand unnoticed in the open in a tiny village in Bosnia? Read | Listen (13:25) | Discuss |
| 2/3/09 | Kangen Water: Change Your Water, Change Your Life (Skeptoid #139) - Sellers of new-age water treatment products charge outrageous prices for zero plausibility. Read | Listen (12:29) | Discuss |
| 1/27/09 | Is He Real, or Is He Fictional? (Skeptoid #138) - A look at some popular characters from history. Were they real or fictional? Read | Listen (13:26) | Discuss |
| 1/20/09 | The Angel of Mons (Skeptoid #137) - Did a mysterious heavenly host save a small group of British from a large German force in World War I? Read | Listen (10:29) | Discuss |
| 1/13/09 | Student Questions: Light Therapy, the Bermuda Triangle, and Isaac Newton (Skeptoid #136) - Skeptoid answers another round of questions submitted by students. Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 1/6/09 | The Rendlesham Forest UFO (Skeptoid #135) - Did a UFO with flashing colored lights harass a USAF base in England in 1980? Read | Listen (16:08) | Discuss |
| 12/30/08 | Who Is Closed Minded, the Skeptic or the Believer? (Skeptoid #134) - Skeptics and believers both tend to accuse each other of similar faults in their thinking. Read | Listen (11:37) | Discuss |
| 12/23/08 | Chasing the Min Min Light (Skeptoid #133) - What is the source of the Australian outback's mysterious channel country jack o' lantern? Read | Listen (10:45) | Discuss |
| 12/16/08 | The Sargasso Sea and the Pacific Garbage Patch (Skeptoid #132) - We cast our skeptical eye upon two vast hazards to navigation said to lurk in the centers of the two great oceans. Read | Listen (9:52) | Discuss |
| 12/9/08 | The Bohemian Club Conspiracy (Skeptoid #131) - Are the wealthy and powerful men at the Bohemian Grove actually there to plot global domination? Read | Listen (12:56) | Discuss |
| 12/6/08 | The Most Important Thing about Skeptoid - Think you know what it is? Listen (2:31) |
| 12/2/08 | Space Properties for Sale (Skeptoid #130) - Many companies offer extraterrestrial real estate or star-naming rights for sale. Is it legitimate? Read | Listen (8:59) | Discuss |
| 11/25/08 | The Oak Island Money Pit (Skeptoid #129) - Is a pirate treasure buried in this mysterious pit in Nova Scotia? Read | Listen (10:31) | Discuss |
| 11/18/08 | Student Questions: the Mozart Effect, Quantum Theory, and AIDS (Skeptoid #128) - Skeptoid answers some questions sent in by students. Read | Listen (11:01) | Discuss |
| 11/11/08 | The Truth about Aspartame (Skeptoid #127) - The artificial sweetener aspartame is falsely accused of being the cause of nearly every disease. Read | Listen (12:29) | Discuss |
| 11/4/08 | The Incorruptibles (Skeptoid #126) - We turn our skeptical eye on claims of incorruptibility - bodies that do not decay after death. Read | Listen (11:32) | Discuss |
| 10/28/08 | Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience (Skeptoid #125) - A critical look at the antics of Oprah Winfrey, Jenny McCarthy, Prince Charles, Bill Maher, Larry King, Pamela Anderson, Ben Stein, Joe Rogan, Chuck Norris, and Montel Williams. Read | Listen (13:30) | Discuss |
| 10/21/08 | Betty and Barney Hill: The Original UFO Abduction (Skeptoid #124) - A critical look at the original UFO abduction story, that so many people take for granted. Read | Listen (13:18) | Discuss |
| 10/14/08 | Listener Feedback Reloaded (Skeptoid #123) - More fun from the inbox, responding to listener feedback. Read | Listen (9:49) | Discuss |
| 10/7/08 | HAARP Myths (Skeptoid #122) - A close look at HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and the claim that it's a superweapon. Read | Listen (12:59) | Discuss |
| 9/30/08 | Scalar Weapons: Tesla's Doomsday Machine? (Skeptoid #121) - Did Nikola Tesla really design a superweapon capable of vaporizing whole parts of the earth? Read | Listen (10:45) | Discuss |
| 9/23/08 | The World According to Conservapedia (Skeptoid #120) - A new Young Earth Fundamentalist online encyclopedia rears its ugly head. Read | Listen (11:44) | Discuss |
| 9/16/08 | Student Questions: Body Searches and Theta Healing (Skeptoid #119) - Skeptoid answers some more questions from students. Send yours in today! Read | Listen (10:05) | Discuss |
| 9/9/08 | Demystifying the Bell Witch (Skeptoid #118) - An exploration of the best way to evaluate an old, unsubstantiated folk legend like The Bell Witch. Read | Listen (11:28) | Discuss |
| 9/2/08 | How Dangerous Is Cell Phone Radiation? (Skeptoid #117) - Popular stories and Internet videos say that cell phone signals are dangerous. Is there any truth to this? Read | Listen (11:07) | Discuss |
| 8/26/08 | How to Be a Skeptic and Still Have Friends (Skeptoid #116) - Being known as a skeptic is not necessarily good for your social life. Here's how to overcome the difficulties. Read | Listen (8:51) | Discuss |
| 8/19/08 | Search for the Missing Cosmonauts (Skeptoid #115) - Did a young pair of Italian brothers uncover evidence of Soviet cosmonauts dying in space? Read | Listen (13:38) | Discuss |
| 8/12/08 | Student Questions: Fish Oil, Charities, and Rumors (Skeptoid #114) - Skeptoid answers some questions sent in by students. Read | Listen (9:37) | Discuss |
| 8/8/08 | The Most Effective Homeopathy Podcast Ever (Skeptoid #113) - Does homeopathy contain any useful content, or is it just a lot of nothing? Read | Listen (10:06) | Discuss |
| 8/5/08 | Genetically Modified Organisms: Jeopardy or Jackpot? (Skeptoid #112) - Are GMO crops dangerous, or a boon to mankind? Read | Listen (14:27) | Discuss |
| 7/29/08 | Should Tibet Be Free? (Skeptoid #111) - Misinformation and fantasy surrounds the popular Tibet notions. Read | Listen (11:39) | Discuss |
| 7/22/08 | Illuminating the Fatima "Miracle of the Sun" (Skeptoid #110) - Did three children miraculously predict a dancing sun in Portugal in 1917? Read | Listen (11:05) | Discuss |
| 7/15/08 | Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the Earth? (Skeptoid #109) - Some people believe that CERN's new Large Hadron Collider will create black holes that will destroy the Earth. Read | Listen (11:22) | Discuss |
| 7/8/08 | Mystery at Dyatlov Pass (Skeptoid #108) - A look at one of the most bizarre cases in Russian cross country skiing history. Read | Listen (10:30) | Discuss |
| 7/1/08 | Spy Radio: Numbers Stations (Skeptoid #107) - A look at mysterious shortwave "numbers stations" around the world. Read | Listen (10:28) | Discuss |
| 6/24/08 | King Tut's Curse! (Skeptoid #106) - A look at the tale, the popular explanation, and the real science behind it. Read | Listen (10:43) | Discuss |
| 6/17/08 | When People Talk Backwards (Skeptoid #105) - Some people believe that your brain encodes its actual meaning in reverse within everything you say. Read | Listen (11:10) | Discuss |
| 6/10/08 | Yet More Winning Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #104) - Another visit to the endless well of listeners comments and criticisms. Read | Listen (12:43) | Discuss |
| 6/3/08 | Should You Take Your Vitamins? (Skeptoid #103) - Will daily doses of vitamin C really help prevent a cold? Read | Listen (10:12) | Discuss |
| 5/27/08 | What You Didn't Know about the Stanford Prison Experiment (Skeptoid #102) - Did the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment prove that evil environments produce evil behavior, or were there serious flaws in the experiment? Read | Listen (10:16) | Discuss |
| 5/20/08 | Things I'm Wrong About (Skeptoid #101) - A look back correcting some of the facts and figures that Skeptoid has gotten wrong. Read | Listen (11:20) | Discuss |
| 5/13/08 | Is Peak Oil the End of Civilization? (Skeptoid #100) - Doomsayers claim that peak oil will produce worldwide panic and disaster, but the lessons of history make a very different prediction. Read | Listen (10:17) | Discuss |
| 5/6/08 | Reassembling TWA Flight 800 (Skeptoid #99) - Was TWA Flight 800 brought down by US friendly fire? Read | Listen (11:22) | Discuss |
| 4/29/08 | The Crystal Skull: Mystical, or Modern? (Skeptoid #98) - Is the crystal skull truly an ancient Mayan artifact with mysterious powers? Read | Listen (8:53) | Discuss |
| 4/22/08 | The Face on Mars Revealed (Skeptoid #97) - Is the face on Mars an artificial sculpture made by alien hands, or merely a natural hill? Read | Listen (9:30) | Discuss |
| 4/15/08 | What's Wrong with The Secret (Skeptoid #96) - The Secret teaches that victims are always to blame, and that anyone can have anything simply by wishing. Read | Listen (10:26) | Discuss |
| 4/8/08 | Bend Over and Own Your Own Business (Skeptoid #95) - Are business opportunities offered for sale truly worth it? Read | Listen (10:49) | Discuss |
| 4/1/08 | Fire in the Sky: A Real UFO Abduction? (Skeptoid #94) - What evidence is there that Travis Walton was abducted for 5 days from an Arizona forest in 1975? Read | Listen (11:00) | Discuss |
| 3/25/08 | Apocalypse 2012 (Skeptoid #93) - The real science behind the events predicted in 2012. Read | Listen (11:15) | Discuss |
| 3/18/08 | Rethinking Nuclear Power (Skeptoid #92) - Are modern nuclear reactors as bad for us as the environmentalists have painted them? Read | Listen (12:03) | Discuss |
| 3/11/08 | More Outrageous Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #91) - My responses to some of the more "out there" feedback I've received. Read | Listen (10:38) | Discuss |
| 3/4/08 | Can You Hear the Hum? (Skeptoid #90) - An exploration of the mysterious rumble that some people hear all over the world. Read | Listen (11:35) | Discuss |
| 2/26/08 | Despicable Vulture Scumbags (Skeptoid #89) - My thoughts on a company that sells useless pseudoscientific hardware to an ALS victim. Read | Listen (10:31) | Discuss |
| 2/19/08 | Super Sized Fast Food Phobia (Skeptoid #88) - Unlike what's said in highly dramatized Hollywood documentaries, fast food is not especially unhealthy. Read | Listen (10:32) | Discuss |
| 2/12/08 | Water: Alternative Fuel of the Future? (Skeptoid #87) - Can simple water really be burned to solve our energy problems? Read | Listen (10:02) | Discuss |
| 2/5/08 | MonaVie and Other "Superfruit" Juices (Skeptoid #86) - Are superfruit juices anything more than super ripoffs? Read | Listen (12:14) | Discuss |
| 1/29/08 | World Trade Center 7: The Lies Come Crashing Down (Skeptoid #85) - Was the collapse of 7 World Trade Center actually a controlled demolition? Read | Listen (10:17) | Discuss |
| 1/22/08 | Magic Jewelry (Skeptoid #84) - All sorts of marvelous health claims are made for jewelry such as the Q-Ray bracelet. Read | Listen (11:10) | Discuss |
| 1/15/08 | The Detoxification Myth (Skeptoid #83) - Everyone wants to "detoxify" their bodies. Is this for real? Read | Listen (11:41) | Discuss |
| 1/12/08 | Skeptoid Book Is Now Available! - Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena is now available in book form from Amazon.com Listen (1:22) |
| 1/8/08 | What Do Creationists Really Believe? (Skeptoid #82) - Creationism is not one set of beliefs - it is a battleground of dramatically conflicting world views. Read | Listen (11:19) | Discuss |
| 1/1/08 | Ghost Hunting Tools of the Trade (Skeptoid #81) - Why the use of electronic equipment by TV ghost hunters is so stupid. Read | Listen (11:50) | Discuss |
| 12/25/07 | Are Microwave Ovens Safe? (Skeptoid #80) - An examination of the various claims that microwaved food and water are poisonous. Read | Listen (11:01) | Discuss |
| 12/18/07 | Aliens in Roswell (Skeptoid #79) - What was actually recovered from the Roswell desert in New Mexico in 1947? Read | Listen (12:48) | Discuss |
| 12/11/07 | Medical Myths in Movies and Culture (Skeptoid #78) - Do doctors ever really stab people in the heart with a syringe? Does chocolate really cause acne? Read | Listen (9:19) | Discuss |
| 12/4/07 | Orang Pendek: Forest Hobbit of Sumatra (Skeptoid #77) - A description of Sumatra's own little miniature Bigfoot legend. Read | Listen (10:53) | Discuss |
| 11/27/07 | Who Kills More, Religion or Atheism? (Skeptoid #76) - Has religion or atheism been responsible for the greater death toll throughout human history? Read | Listen (9:00) | Discuss |
| 11/20/07 | How to See Your Aura (Skeptoid #75) - Is aura photography actually possible, and does it tell us anything useful about the person? Read | Listen (10:33) | Discuss |
| 11/13/07 | A Magical Journey through the Land of Logical Fallacies - Part 2 (Skeptoid #74) - The second part of our exploration of logical fallacies. Read | Listen (11:54) | Discuss |
| 11/6/07 | A Magical Journey through the Land of Logical Fallacies - Part 1 (Skeptoid #73) - An examination of many of the most common logical fallacies. Read | Listen (13:14) | Discuss |
| 10/30/07 | Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Real or Imagined? (Skeptoid #72) - Are sufferers of electrosensitivity reacting to electromagnetism, or just to simple stress? Read | Listen (16:19) | Discuss |
| 10/23/07 | How to Drink Gnarly Breast Milk (Skeptoid #71) - Proponents of colostrum supplements believe that it has a whole range of benefits. Read | Listen (9:08) | Discuss |
| 10/16/07 | Raging (Bioidentical) Hormones (Skeptoid #70) - An examination of the popular trend in women's health, bioidentical hormone therapy. Read | Listen (7:35) | Discuss |
| 10/9/07 | Ann Coulter, Scientist (Skeptoid #69) - Conservative pundit Ann Coulter should stick to politics; her science is too screwed up for words. Read | Listen (7:36) | Discuss |
| 10/2/07 | More Wet and Wild Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #68) - Another round of listener feedback from the past several months. Read | Listen (14:17) | Discuss |
| 9/25/07 | Do Your Body Features Measure Up? (Skeptoid #67) - An examination of phrenology, physiognomy, palmistry, and iridology. Read | Listen (11:39) | Discuss |
| 9/18/07 | The Greatest Secret of Nostradamus (Skeptoid #66) - How much of the pop-culture information about Nostradamus is true? Read | Listen (14:38) | Discuss |
| 9/11/07 | How to Debate a Young Earth Creationist (Skeptoid #65) - Learn the basic arguments against science made by Young Earthers, and how to rebut them. Read | Listen (15:35) | Discuss |
| 9/4/07 | The Attack of Spring Heeled Jack (Skeptoid #64) - Spring Heeled Jack terrorized England in the early 1800's ... or did he? Read | Listen (9:06) | Discuss |
| 8/28/07 | Subliminal Seduction (Skeptoid #63) - How true is Wilson Key's magnum opus work about subliminal advertising? Read | Listen (9:11) | Discuss |
| 8/21/07 | Crop Circle Jerks (Skeptoid #62) - Crop circles are finally commonly known to be man made. Why do some people maintain that they're not? Read | Listen (12:49) | Discuss |
| 8/14/07 | Irradiation: Is Your Food Toxic? (Skeptoid #61) - How concerned should we be about the popular arguments against irradiated food? Read | Listen (8:32) | Discuss |
| 8/9/07 | Will Drinking from Plastic Bottles Kill You? (Skeptoid #60) - A recent fad states that plastic water bottles leech toxic chemicals. Is it true? Read | Listen (8:01) | Discuss |
| 8/4/07 | Who Are the Raelians, and Why Are They Naked? (Skeptoid #59) - The Raelians are naked and they worship space aliens. Read | Listen (10:43) | Discuss |
| 7/30/07 | All About Fluoridation (Skeptoid #58) - A few fringe activists claim that fluoridation of water carries more danger than benefit. Read | Listen (9:20) | Discuss |
| 7/25/07 | Email Myths (Skeptoid #57) - A look at some of those persistent hoax emails that you receive almost every day. Read | Listen (12:28) | Discuss |
| 7/20/07 | Bizarre Places I'd Like to Go (Skeptoid #56) - California is home to a wealth of places rich with mystery and intrigue. Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 7/15/07 | Mercury, Autism, and Chelation: A Recipe for Risk (Skeptoid #55) - An examination of the lethal pop-culture fad of chelating autistic children. Read | Listen (10:36) | Discuss |
| 7/10/07 | The Twin Towers: Fire Melting Steel (Skeptoid #54) - Was the Oakland freeway collapse corroborating evidence for the official version of the World Trade Center failure, or was it another government lie? Read | Listen (9:35) | Discuss |
| 7/5/07 | Borley Rectory: the World's Most Haunted House? (Skeptoid #53) - Were the events at Borley Rectory a real haunting, or the product of a hoaxster? Read | Listen (12:05) | Discuss |
| 6/30/07 | Science Magazines Violating Their Own Missions (Skeptoid #52) - Do science magazines undermine themselves by publishing ads for pseudoscientific products? Read | Listen (7:19) | Discuss |
| 6/25/07 | Ethanol: Miracle Fuel, or Not? (Skeptoid #51) - Is ethanol really nature's wonder fuel? Is corn really going to save us? Read | Listen (7:58) | Discuss |
| 6/15/07 | How to Identify a "Good" Scientific Journal (Skeptoid #50) - Everyone says their scientific journal is more reputable than your scientific journal. Who's right? Read | Listen (10:05) | Discuss |
| 6/10/07 | Unconscious Research of Global Consciousness (Skeptoid #49) - Some say that the collective emotions of humans can influence electronic hardware. Read | Listen (11:56) | Discuss |
| 6/5/07 | The Bible Code: Enigmas for Dummies (Skeptoid #48) - Do messages hidden within the Bible really predict the future? Read | Listen (10:20) | Discuss |
| 5/31/07 | How Skeptoid Can Help You Win $1 Million - Skeptoid is now a qualifying media outlet for the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. Listen (5:48) |
| 5/26/07 | Free Range Chicken and Farm Raised Fish (Skeptoid #47) - Do free range chickens and farm raised fish truly have the pros and cons that popular culture believes? Read | Listen (9:51) | Discuss |
| 5/21/07 | Support Your Local Reptoid (Skeptoid #46) - What started the conspiracy theory that reptilian beings control our governments? Read | Listen (9:52) | Discuss |
| 5/16/07 | The Importance of Teaching Critical Thinking (Skeptoid #45) - There is perhaps no more importance task before us than teaching critical thinking to young people. Read | Listen (7:33) | Discuss |
| 5/11/07 | The Truth About Remote Viewing (Skeptoid #44) - The psychic technique of remote viewing is consistent with simple, well known magic tricks. Read | Listen (11:05) | Discuss |
| 5/6/07 | A Mormon History of the Americas (Skeptoid #43) - Can the history of the American continent as presented in the Book of Mormon be true? Read | Listen (9:32) | Discuss |
| 5/1/07 | Whacking, Cracking, and Chiropracting (Skeptoid #42) - Defined in 1895, chiropractic treats imaginary conditions with dangerous manipulations. Read | Listen (10:20) | Discuss |
| 4/26/07 | The Alien Invasion of Phoenix, Arizona (Skeptoid #41) - Yet another rehash of the infamous Phoenix Lights episode. Read | Listen (11:25) | Discuss |
| 4/21/07 | Neanderthals in Present Day Asia (Skeptoid #40) - Does the legendary Almas represent a population of relic Neanderthals? Read | Listen (8:30) | Discuss |
| 4/16/07 | Heating Up to Global Warming (Skeptoid #39) - Do we really understand how much power we have to address global warming? Read | Listen (11:21) | Discuss |
| 4/11/07 | The Marfa Lights: A Real American Mystery (Skeptoid #38) - What is the cause of the mysterious ghost lights outside Marfa, Texas? Read | Listen (8:25) | Discuss |
| 4/6/07 | How to Spot Pseudoscience (Skeptoid #37) - This 15-point checklist will help you tell science from pseudoscience. Read | Listen (11:45) | Discuss |
| 4/1/07 | Mercury Fillings (Skeptoid #36) - Do mercury amalgam fillings release toxic levels of mercury into the body? Read | Listen (10:34) | Discuss |
| 3/27/07 | Revisionist Darwinism: The Theory That Couldn't Sit Still (Skeptoid #35) - Some creationists claim that evolution is invalid because it is frequently improved and enlarged as research and knowledge are improved. Read | Listen (8:27) | Discuss |
| 3/22/07 | Homeopathy: Pure Water or Pure Nonsense? (Skeptoid #34) - Most homeopathy users believe that it's some kind of herbal remedy. Is it? Read | Listen (12:28) | Discuss |
| 3/17/07 | Best of Listener Feedback (Skeptoid #33) - The best of listener feedback from the first 32 Skeptoid episodes. Read | Listen (15:28) | Discuss |
| 3/12/07 | Blood for Oil (Skeptoid #32) - Is the war in the Middle East really being waged for oil? Read | Listen (8:23) | Discuss |
| 3/7/07 | The Devil Walked in Devon (Skeptoid #31) - Was the devil responsible for a set of 100-mile footprints in 1855? Read | Listen (6:51) | Discuss |
| 3/1/07 | Raw Food - Raw Deal? (Skeptoid #30) - Raw food is well and good, but is cooked food as terrible as raw foodists make it out to be? Read | Listen (11:50) | Discuss |
| 2/24/07 | Orbs: The Ghost in the Camera (Skeptoid #29) - Are orbs really ghosts, or a common artifact of photography? Read | Listen (8:08) | Discuss |
| 2/20/07 | Special Announcement from Skeptoid - The Skeptalk Email Discussion List is now active at Skeptoid.com. Listen (1:45) |
| 2/19/07 | Natural Hygiene: Health Without Medicine (or Wisdom) (Skeptoid #28) - Can Natural Hygiene really lead to a longer life? Read | Listen (5:40) | Discuss |
| 2/15/07 | Chemtrails: Real or Not? (Skeptoid #27) - What you always thought were simply contrails are really dangerous chemicals being sprayed. Read | Listen (9:06) | Discuss |
| 2/10/07 | Biodynamic Agriculture (Skeptoid #26) - Is biodynamic agriculture a modern innovation, or a throwback to the Dark Ages? Read | Listen (9:08) | Discuss |
| 2/5/07 | Scientists Are Not Created Equal (Skeptoid #25) - Does calling someone a "scientist" mean that he knows anything at all? Read | Listen (6:51) | Discuss |
| 1/28/07 | Reflexology: Only Dangerous If You Use It (Skeptoid #24) - Reflexology is really no more than a foot massage - so why might it be dangerous? Here's why. Read | Listen (10:22) | Discuss |
| 1/23/07 | Paganism: A Naked Rebellion (Skeptoid #23) - What is paganism, and how is different from regular religions? Read | Listen (6:44) | Discuss |
| 1/19/07 | Skepticism and Flight 93 (Skeptoid #22) - What thought process led you to your conclusion about the cause of Flight 93's crash? Read | Listen (8:13) | Discuss |
| 1/15/07 | Living Stones of Death Valley (Skeptoid #21) - An examination of the mysterious stones that move by themselves across the desert floor. Read | Listen (3:46) | Discuss |
| 1/11/07 | The Real Amityville Horror (Skeptoid #20) - America's most popular true ghost story was a hoax. Read | Listen (7:38) | Discuss |
| 1/5/07 | Organic Food Myths (Skeptoid #19) - Is it a revolution in health and the environment, or a counterproductive fad? Read | Listen (10:18) | Discuss |
| 1/1/07 | The "New" Bill of Rights (Skeptoid #18) - An amended Bill of Rights to better reflect modern American values. Read | Listen (4:37) | Discuss |
| 12/28/06 | Internet Paranoia (Skeptoid #17) - Are Internet viruses and trojan horses really as dangerous as we've been led to believe? Read | Listen (8:25) | Discuss |
| 12/24/06 | The Real Philadelphia Experiment (Skeptoid #16) - Did a US Navy warship completely disappear in 1943? Read | Listen (6:50) | Discuss |
| 12/20/06 | SUV Phobia (Skeptoid #15) - Are SUVs truly as evil as we're supposed to think? Read | Listen (8:00) | Discuss |
| 12/15/06 | Cell Phones on Airplanes (Skeptoid #14) - Cell phones are perfectly safe on airplanes. So why can't we use them? Read | Listen (6:35) | Discuss |
| 12/11/06 | A Primer on Scientific Testing (Skeptoid #13) - Understand the basics of scientific testing. Read | Listen (7:15) | Discuss |
| 12/7/06 | Killing Faith: Deconstructionist Christians (Skeptoid #12) - Is proving the Bible really doing the work of God? Read | Listen (5:31) | Discuss |
| 12/3/06 | Killing Bigfoot with Bad Science (Skeptoid #11) - Is anyone doing any justice to the Bigfoot claim? Read | Listen (7:47) | Discuss |
| 11/30/06 | An Evolution Primer for Young Earth Creationists (Skeptoid #10) - Evolution 101 for Young Earth Creationists who want to know better. Read | Listen (8:11) | Discuss |
| 11/26/06 | Sin: What's It Good For? (Skeptoid #09) - What's the point? Read | Listen (7:30) | Discuss |
| 11/21/06 | Nocturnal Assaults: Aliens in the Dark (Skeptoid #08) - Alien abductions and Old Hags - things that go bump in the night. Read | Listen (6:22) | Discuss |
| 11/14/06 | Pond Magnet Foolishness (Skeptoid #07) - Do magnets really have a mystical positive effect on pond water chemistry? Read | Listen (6:13) | Discuss |
| 11/9/06 | Wheatgrass Juice (Skeptoid #06) - Is the magical mystery juice all it's blended up to be? Read | Listen (6:49) | Discuss |
| 11/1/06 | Sustainable Sustainability (Skeptoid #05) - Focus on the year's undisputed overused buzzword: "Sustainable" Read | Listen (6:08) | Discuss |
| 10/24/06 | Ethics of Peddling the Paranormal (Skeptoid #04) - Is it OK for non-believers to sell the paranormal? Read | Listen (6:45) | Discuss |
| 10/19/06 | Rods: Flying Absurdities (Skeptoid #03) - Do these invisible flying creatures really exist? Read | Listen (5:10) | Discuss |
| 10/11/06 | Religion as a Moral Center (Skeptoid #02) - Is religion necessary to a good moral center? Read | Listen (4:31) | Discuss |
| 10/3/06 | New Age Energy (Skeptoid #01) - An examination of energy, as new agers use the term. Read | Listen (6:07) | Discuss |
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