Skeptoid
Summary: Since 2006, the weekly Skeptoid podcast has been taking on all the most popular myths and revealing the true science, true history, and true lessons we can learn from each. Free subscribers get the most recent 50 episodes, premium subscribers (skeptoid.com) can access the full archive, all ad-free.
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- Artist: Brian Dunning
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Podcasts:
An urban legend says that children with completely black eyes go around trying to be allowed inside your house or car... for unknown reasons.
This New Age alternative health fad has people swishing vegetable oil in their mouth hoping to cure a wide variety of medical conditions.
Skeptoid Media has finally completed conversion to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity, and all donations and gifts are now fully tax deductible.
Phobias can seem incredibly goofy sometimes, but that doesn't mean the brain had no rational reason for creating them.
Bavaria's King Ludwig, creator of the land's most beautiful castles and theaters, is widely believed to have committed suicide. But some say he was murdered.
American band leader Glenn Miller disappeared on a short flight during World War II, so of course a variety of theories have arisen to explain what happened.
Essential oils are the distilled scents from certain flowers or herbs that smell pleasant. But some believe they also secretly harbor amazing healing powers.
In Arkansas is said to live a Bigfoot-like creature called the Fouke Monster. Is it more important to hope for it to be a real animal, or to recognize its cultural significance?
Some objects are found around the world that seem to defy explanation, in that they seem to prove a different version of history.
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by listeners, this time focusing on episodes about ancient mysteries and those pesky ancient aliens.
A popular urban legend claims that William Randolph Hearst conspired with DuPont to make cannabis illegal in the United States. How true is this?
Some activists who promote a particular pseudoscientific idea or claim tend to attack the messenger, rather than present science based evidence.
An old tale tells of coffins that jumbled themselves up in a crypt in Barbados. The only problem is finding any evidence indicating it ever actually happened.
Two dead bodies were found in Brazil in 1966 with mysterious masks made of lead. What the masks were for has baffled investigators ever since.
Despite all scientific predictions about the lack of health consequences from the Fukushima disaster coming true, some people still promote looming disaster.
