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Skeptoid: Bad Skepticism
4 december 2015 · 1 min
A new live show from Skeptoid Media: Bad Skepticism! Lees meer
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Skeptoid #495: Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites
1 december 2015 · 15 min
The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #494: Black Mold: Peril or Prosaic?
24 november 2015 · 12 min
Black mold is commonly believed to harbor many deadly diseases; but in fact removing it is often worse than leaving it. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #493: How Real Is the Stockholm Syndrome?
17 november 2015 · 14 min
While the Stockholm syndrome sounds like a mere media buzzword, it does actually sometimes happen. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #492: Pouring Cold Water on Cryotherapy
10 november 2015 · 13 min
Questioning whether this new spa treatment provides all the medical benefits it claims. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #491: 420: The Cannabis Code
3 november 2015 · 13 min
Myths and competing claims fog the origin of the term 420, a slang code for marijuana. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #490: Deconstructing the Tasaday Tribe
27 oktober 2015 · 14 min
Some say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #489: The Science of X-Ray Specs and Sea Monkeys
20 oktober 2015 · 13 min
These products advertised in the back of comic books promised improbable feats of science. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #488: Who Was Charles Fort?
13 oktober 2015 · 13 min
This enigmatic author of the strange continues to confound. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #487: About That 1970s Global Cooling...
6 oktober 2015 · 13 min
No, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #486: The Flying Saucer Menace
29 september 2015 · 13 min
The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #485: Holocaust Denial
22 september 2015 · 14 min
Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #484: More Unsung Women of Science
15 september 2015 · 14 min
Some women you haven't heard of who made significant contributions to science. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #483: Unsung Women of Science
8 september 2015 · 14 min
These important scientists are virtually unknown. Let's see if we can fix that. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #482: Franklin's Cannibals
1 september 2015 · 13 min
The fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #481: Captain Kidd's Treasure
25 augustus 2015 · 13 min
Think you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #480: The Nazi of Nanking
18 augustus 2015 · 15 min
This most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #479: Chemicals
11 augustus 2015 · 15 min
Chemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #478: Listener Feedback: Natural History
4 augustus 2015 · 12 min
Today we're going to answer questions sent in by listeners pertaining to episodes having to do with our natural world. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #477: Wag the Dogman
28 juli 2015 · 14 min
They say that a half-canine cryptid stalks the woods of Northern Michigan. Are they right? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #476: The Chess-Playing Mechanical Turk
21 juli 2015 · 12 min
An overview of the amazing chess playing robot of the 1700s. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #475: Listener Feedback: History vs. Pseudohistory
14 juli 2015 · 12 min
Brian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #474: Solfeggio Frequencies
7 juli 2015 · 14 min
Certain specific sonic frequencies are not the key to love, intuition, or spiritual order. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #473: The Loveland Frog
30 juni 2015 · 15 min
A series of sightings of a frog-like humanoid in the suburb of Loveland, Ohio prompts an enduring folkloric legend. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #472: Lysenko and Lesser Science Grifters
23 juni 2015 · 16 min
Trofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #471: Male Circumcision
16 juni 2015 · 17 min
Infant male circumcision remains common in the United States. Today we look at the reasons and the implications. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #470: Marijuana
9 juni 2015 · 15 min
In the last 50 years, marijuana has gone from menace to medicine. Which is it? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #469: Jade Helm 15
2 juni 2015 · 15 min
Conspiracy theory that a military training exercise is going to lead to martial law. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #468: Listener Feedback: Fads
26 mei 2015 · 13 min
Brian responds to some listener feedback concerning the topic of fads. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #467: Baby Myths
19 mei 2015 · 17 min
A look at some common myths about babies and children. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #466: 5 Answers for Creationists
12 mei 2015 · 14 min
Creationists have presented 5 questions they don't think 'evolutionists' can answer. Here are some answers. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #465: Agenda 21
5 mei 2015 · 14 min
A look at the conspiratorial hysteria and sensationalism surrounding the United Nations' Agenda 21. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #464: The Lake Michigan Triangle
28 april 2015 · 12 min
There is a region in the Great Lakes where, some say, ships and planes mysteriously disappear. Not so much. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #463: Transgender: Fact or Fiction?
21 april 2015 · 15 min
The Internet believes a lot of things about transgender people, but much of it isn't true. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #462: Satanic Ritual Abuse
14 april 2015 · 18 min
The history of claims that secret Satanic cults are abusing children. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #461: Cryptids That Turned Out To Be Real
7 april 2015 · 15 min
Sometimes speculative animals do turn out to be real, but that still doesn't validate cryptozoology as a science. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #460: Plastic Bags
31 maart 2015 · 12 min
Deciding whether you want "paper or plastic" at the supermarket turns out to be a remarkably complex choice. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #459: Listener Feedback: The Environment
24 maart 2015 · 13 min
Brian responds to listener feedback on past episodes about environmental topics. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #458: Science Fails
17 maart 2015 · 15 min
Science has let you down time after time, and that's one reason why it gets better and better. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #457: Forgetting the Alamo
10 maart 2015 · 20 min
The myths and facts behind the events that made the Alamo famous reveal it may not be worth remembering much. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #456: Cattle Mutilation
3 maart 2015 · 14 min
Cow mutilation may have a simpler explanation than alien experimentation. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #455: Ghost Photography
24 februari 2015 · 16 min
The history of ghost photography and its many problems as evidence. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #454: GMO Facts and Fiction
17 februari 2015 · 14 min
See if you know how many of these GMO "facts" are right. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #453: Cooking Myths
10 februari 2015 · 15 min
As the busiest part of the house, the kitchen has collected more folklore than any other room in it. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #452: The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica
3 februari 2015 · 10 min
In Costa Rica, mysterious stone spheres left behind by the country's previous inhabitants seem to defy explanation. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #451: Ideomotor Response
27 januari 2015 · 15 min
The Ideomotor Response underlies a number of occult phenomena and alt-med practices. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #450: Robert Ripley: Believe Him... or Not?
20 januari 2015 · 12 min
We examine Believe it or Not! and determine if we can believe this stuff. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #449: Ancient Astronauts
13 januari 2015 · 14 min
Did aliens visit the ancient Earth and inspire human cultures? Some people claim so. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #448: The Columbus Poltergeist
6 januari 2015 · 18 min
This poltergeist in Columbus Ohio turned out to be, like nearly all such cases, a mischievous teen. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #447: Listener Feedback: Cryptozoology
30 december 2014 · 13 min
We respond to questions about cryptids asked by listeners to our recent episodes. Lees meer
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