Skeptoid #871: 7 Valentine's Day Myths
See if you can tell whether each of these popular beliefs about Valentine's Day are true or false. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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Episodes
Skeptoid #870: The Dirty Secret of Dirty Electricity
Is there such a thing as a type of electricity running through your home's wiring that delivers horrific health impacts to anyone living there? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #869: The Goat Man of Pope Lick Bridge
Stories of goat men are all over the world. Why is the Pope Lick goat man disproportionately famous? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #868: Top 10 Most Harmful Anti-Experts: 2023 Edition
Once again we round up the people working hardest to spread misinformation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #867: Student Questions: Guidestones and Tachyons
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by friendly folks all over the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #866: What THEY Don't Want You to Know About UFOs
Some great ways to think about all the current UFO craze. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #865: The Non-Mystery of Nan Madol
Was this megalithic site in the South Pacific built by the people who lived there at the time, or by aliens? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #864: Ask Me Anything, 2022 Edition
In which we wrap up 2022 by letting Skeptoid premium members Ask Me Anything. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #863: Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Woo
The latest form of magnet therapy promises to cure everything from headaches to cancer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #862: Human Mosquito Magnets
Is it true that mosquitoes like some people better than others? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #861: Marketing with Logical Fallacies
A look at some of the logically fallacious statements used to sell many of today's most popular products. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Big UFO Update!
The latest news, and some clips, from my indie documentary The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #860: Illuminating the Hornet Spooklight
Legend has it this ghost light has been spooking people in Missouri for hundreds of years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #859: How to Spot Fake News
A roundup of easy techniques anyone can employ to better discern accurate news reports from false ones. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #858: Resignation Syndrome
In this bizarre psychiatric condition, healthy children lapse into a coma that may last for years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #857: On the Health Benefits of Drinking Alcohol
Some say that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol actually has certain health benefits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #856: A Cavalcade of Corrections
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #855: Sniffing for Human Sex Pheromones
Do humans use pheromones to turn each other on? The science so far says... uhh, we have no idea. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #854: The Day Science Was Overthrown
A look at six times when there was a major paradigm shift in science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #853: Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO
This story of alien visitation in Brazil from 1996 claims to be the most convincing proof we have. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #852: Electric Cars and the Power Grid
Opponents of electric cars claim that the power grid can't keep up with the growing demand for electricity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #851: How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You
Is your smartphone eavesdropping on your conversation? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #850: Ode to the Nightcrawler
Beware of this creepy cryptid, or you might just fall in love with it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #849: Who Really Killed the Electric Car?
Pop culture tells us that a conspiracy is what killed GM's EV1 in 2002. But is an exotic explanation really needed? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #848: On the Trail of Papillon
How much truth was there to the prison escape story of Henri Charrière? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #847: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 2
Some more of the episodes where I went in with one idea, and came out with another. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #846: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 1
Some of the episodes where I went in expecting one thing, but found something different. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #845: Seeking the Soviet Battle Mole
The story goes that the Soviet Union had nuclear-powered underground vehicles for waging a whole new kind of war. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #844: What They're Saying About Electric Cars Now
The arguments made by electric car haters no longer hold up. Time to upgrade. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Skeptoid #843: Pop Quiz: Religious Symbolism
How well do you know your Skeptoid? Today's pop quiz focuses on questions drawn from episodes about world religions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices