Skeptoid

Today it's time for some more listener feedback, and we're going to put even the craziest of listener emails under the microscope to evaluate their logic... such as it is.

A growing trend in the media is the promotion of therapy programs intended to "cure" gays and make them straight. Are these therapies real, and can they actually do what they claim?

Conspiracy theorists, who believe wild and implausible stories, seem to have a screw loose somewhere. But are their brains really working improperly?

When Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed in Russia in 1918, some say that his daughter Anastasia somehow escaped and went on to live in the United States.

Tradition tells of zombies that wander Haiti as slave laborers. Are they really corpses reanimated by black magic, or is there a more plausible explanation?

Many who narrowly escape death on the operating table report euphoric afterlife experiences. But it turns out that these same effects are also associated with simple hypoxia. Does it explain all of them?

Dolphins and sea lions are acknowledged to perform simple military duties like locate mines and retrieve lost objects, but are they also used for much more sinister purposes?

Conventional wisdom tells us that alternative medicine is preferred in China, but it's simply not true. Neither is it completely true that Mao pushed it onto the Chinese because it was inexpensive.

For hundreds of years, some unsolved cases of death by fire have been called spontaneous because there was no source of ignition found. Is the absence of evidence actually evidence of absence?

The Plum Island Animal Research Center is known for defending our food supply against foot and mouth disease, but some say their true purpose is much darker.

Skeptoid answers student questions. Today's topics include a variety of health related questions such as an apple a day and various causes of cancer, plus a look at the media's darling Supermoon.

Hysterical strength is what we call temporary superpowers summoned by those undergoing the adrenalin rush of the fight or flight response. Can it really boost your strength as much as the stories say?

Some believe that American soldiers missing in action since the Vietnam War are still being held captive as prisoners of war. The military denies it. Where are they?

In 1996, a lone gunman killed 35 people in Tasmania. Was he acting alone, or was it a conspiracy by the government to get firearms banned?

The Voynich manuscript was written in the early 1400s, and to this day, nobody has been able to translate or read a single word of it.