Episode Guide - Fads
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1/4/11 | Gluten Free Diets (Skeptoid #239) - Are gluten free diets really good for your general wellness? Read | Listen (11:46) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7/29/08 | Should Tibet Be Free? (Skeptoid #111) - Misinformation and fantasy surrounds the popular Tibet notions. Read | Listen (11:39) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 2/5/08 | MonaVie and Other "Superfruit" Juices (Skeptoid #86) - Are superfruit juices anything more than super ripoffs? Read | Listen (12:14) | Discuss |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 12/20/06 | SUV Phobia (Skeptoid #15) - Are SUVs truly as evil as we're supposed to think? Read | Listen (8:00) | 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 |
| 10/3/06 | New Age Energy (Skeptoid #01) - An examination of energy, as new agers use the term. Read | Listen (6:07) | Discuss |
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