Episode Guide - Conspiracies
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1/1/13 | 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 |
| 12/18/12 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5/22/12 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 1/17/12 | Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons (Skeptoid #293) - Did the Nazis really have super-advanced technology, even anti-gravity flying saucers? Read | Listen (13:48) | Discuss |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5/10/11 | The Secret of Plum Island (Skeptoid #257) - Does this secret government lab really create genetic mutants and biological weapons? Read | Listen (12:26) | Discuss |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6/22/10 | 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 |
| 6/1/10 | 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 |
| 5/18/10 | Morgellons Disease (Skeptoid #206) - In this newly described condition, some patients report strange plastic fibers growing from their skin. Read | Listen (11:57) | Discuss |
| 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 |
| 3/9/10 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4/21/09 | Screwed! (Skeptoid #150) - A secret recording of an actual meeting of the Illuminati. Read | Listen (9:40) | 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 |
| 3/3/09 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 12/9/08 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 10/7/08 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7/1/08 | Spy Radio: Numbers Stations (Skeptoid #107) - A look at mysterious shortwave "numbers stations" around the world. Read | Listen (10:28) | Discuss |
| 6/17/08 | 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 |
| 5/6/08 | Reassembling TWA Flight 800 (Skeptoid #99) - Was TWA Flight 800 brought down by US friendly fire? Read | Listen (11:22) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 8/28/07 | Subliminal Seduction (Skeptoid #63) - How true is Wilson Key's magnum opus work about subliminal advertising? Read | Listen (9:11) | Discuss |
| 8/14/07 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7/10/07 | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12/24/06 | The Real Philadelphia Experiment (Skeptoid #16) - Did a US Navy warship completely disappear in 1943? Read | Listen (6:50) | Discuss |
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