Episode Guide - General Science
| 6/11/13 | The Sedona Energy Vortex (Skeptoid #366) - Do a series of spiritual energy vortexes, of a type unknown to science, exist in Sedona, AZ? Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2/12/13 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 9/4/12 | 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 |
| 8/7/12 | 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 |
| 7/3/12 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12/13/11 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10/11/11 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 11/2/10 | 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 |
| 10/5/10 | 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 |
| 9/21/10 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 11/17/09 | Vaccine Ingredients (Skeptoid #180) - Do vaccines really contain the horrifying poisons claimed by antivaccine activists? Read | Listen (12:50) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 3/10/09 | The Case of the Strange Skulls (Skeptoid #144) - A collection of bizarre human skulls from around the world. Read | Listen (15:13) | Discuss |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 9/2/08 | 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 |
| 8/19/08 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12/11/06 | A Primer on Scientific Testing (Skeptoid #13) - Understand the basics of scientific testing. Read | Listen (7:15) | 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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