Skeptoid #400: It's Just Science
Some pseudoscience promoters attack the messenger rather than the evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Feb 04, 2014•4 min•Ep. 400
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Skeptoid #399: The Moving Coffins of Barbados
An old tale tells of coffins that jumbled themselves up in a crypt in Barbados. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 28, 2014•13 min•Ep. 399
Skeptoid #398: Solving the Lead Masks of Vintem Hill
Two dead bodies were found in Brazil in 1966 with mysterious masks made of lead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 21, 2014•13 min•Ep. 398
Skeptoid #397: Fukushima vs Chernobyl vs Three Mile Island
Years after the disaster, some claim that Fukushima radiation is still going to cause widespread death. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 14, 2014•14 min•Ep. 397
Skeptoid #396: The Biggest, the Oldest, and the Baddest
A tour of the Earth's biggest, oldest, and most lethal living creatures. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jan 07, 2014•14 min•Ep. 396
Skeptoid #395: Student Questions: Food Woo, Food Woo, and More Food Woo
Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students, all of them this week pertaining to popular food pseudoscience. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 31, 2013•13 min•Ep. 395
Skeptoid #394: Finding Butch and Sundance
Stories that outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might have made it back from South America don't hold up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 24, 2013•12 min•Ep. 394
Skeptoid #393: The Hair of Samson
Hold onto your hats: Growing your hair long will not confer super strength or vitality upon you. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 17, 2013•12 min•Ep. 393
Skeptoid #392: Listener Feedback: Consumer Ripoffs
Skeptoid responds to comments sent in by listeners who don't accept that they've been ripped off. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 10, 2013•14 min•Ep. 392
Skeptoid #391: 8 Secret Bases: Real or Fictional?
Guess which of these secret military bases around the world are real. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dec 03, 2013•14 min•Ep. 391
Skeptoid #390: The Red Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave
Some say that an early Native American tribe were giant cannibals. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 26, 2013•12 min•Ep. 390
Skeptoid #389: The JFK Assassination
After so many decades, the number of incompatible conspiracy theories about the death of JFK continues to grow. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 19, 2013•14 min•Ep. 389
Skeptoid #388: 6 Problems with Wind Turbine Syndrome
Despite activist claims, wind turbines are not making anybody sick. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 12, 2013•14 min•Ep. 388
Skeptoid #387: Who Discovered the New World?
Of all the many claims of Europeans being first to the New World, only one is true. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nov 05, 2013•13 min•Ep. 387
Skeptoid #386: Tracking the Tasmanian Tiger
Some say this extinct Tasmanian marsupial may still roam the forests. The evidence is against them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 29, 2013•14 min•Ep. 386
Skeptoid #385: The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
A young pilot who disappeared in 1978 might have been having a little fun, Spielberg style. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 22, 2013•13 min•Ep. 385
Skeptoid #384: Asking the Socratic Questions
A line of reasoning named for Socrates helps us help believers in the strange re-examine their beliefs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 15, 2013•13 min•Ep. 384
Skeptoid #383: 5 False Arguments for Raw Milk
Some people who enjoy raw milk also make up false claims that regular milk is more dangerous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 08, 2013•14 min•Ep. 383
Skeptoid #382: Into the Maelstrom (or Not)
A look into the plausibility and historicity of the ferocious maelstrom of legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oct 01, 2013•12 min•Ep. 382
Skeptoid #381: An Enthusiast's Primer on Study Types
A quick look at many of the most common scientific study types. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 24, 2013•13 min•Ep. 381
Skeptoid #380: The Riddle of the L-8 Blimp
The crew of a blimp mysteriously vanished in 1942, but their blimp came back OK... without them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 17, 2013•12 min•Ep. 380
Skeptoid #379: I Think, Therefore I Err
Skeptoid corrects a bunch of errors made in previous episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 10, 2013•13 min•Ep. 379
Skeptoid #378: Legendary Places: Real or Fictional?
We look at twelve legendary places that you've heard of, but may not know whether they're real or not. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sep 03, 2013•14 min•Ep. 378
Skeptoid #377: Student Questions: Hangovers, Manuka Honey, and Probiotics
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 27, 2013•12 min•Ep. 377
Skeptoid #376: Salt Therapies
A new trend in spas is to let people relax in salt caves, and it's based on solid pseudoscience. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 20, 2013•13 min•Ep. 376
Skeptoid #375: The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film
The true history behind the iconic Bigfoot film that launched the legend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 13, 2013•14 min•Ep. 375
Skeptoid #374: Listener Feedback: Alternative Medicine
Skeptoid answers a raft of listener emails pertaining to alternative medicine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aug 06, 2013•14 min•Ep. 374
Skeptoid #373: The Secrets of MKULTRA
The urban legend that the CIA conducted unethical mind control experiments has a grain of truth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 30, 2013•14 min•Ep. 373
Skeptoid #372: Prove Your Supernatural Power and Get Rich
If you can demonstrate a power unknown to science, there are people looking to write you a check. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 23, 2013•12 min•Ep. 372
Skeptoid #371: The Vanishing Village of Angikuni Lake
The legend of the disappearing Eskimo village of Angikuni Lake turns out to be simple pulp fiction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 16, 2013•14 min•Ep. 371