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Skeptoid #250: The History of Knowledge
22 maart 2011 · 12 min
A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #249: Student Questions: Airport X-Rays, Shampoo, and the Moon
15 maart 2011 · 13 min
Skeptoid answers another round of science questions sent in by students all around the world. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #248: The Exorcism of Anneliese
8 maart 2011 · 14 min
Exorcisms are a brutal torture ritual with no hope of actually helping a person who believes themselves possessed. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #247: The Miracle of Calanda
1 maart 2011 · 12 min
This famous story of God once healing an amputee falls apart under historical scrutiny. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #246: Corrections, Errata, Blunders, and Boo-Boos
22 februari 2011 · 13 min
Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #245: Finding the Lost Colony of Roanoke
15 februari 2011 · 13 min
Historians actually have a pretty complete picture of what happened to the "missing" Roanoke colonists. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #244: Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter
8 februari 2011 · 12 min
Atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war would not result in devastating global cooling. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #243: Student Questions: Orbo, EVPs, and Shakespeare
1 februari 2011 · 13 min
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #242: Scientology
25 januari 2011 · 14 min
The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #241: The Alien Buried in Texas
18 januari 2011 · 12 min
Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #240: Mystery Spots
11 januari 2011 · 12 min
Various "gravitational anomalies" around the world have fascinating real science behind them. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #239: Gluten Free Diets
4 januari 2011 · 12 min
Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #238: More Hollywood Myths
28 december 2010 · 12 min
Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #237: Hollywood Myths
21 december 2010 · 12 min
Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #236: Whales and Sonar
14 december 2010 · 14 min
Navy sonar is claimed to be lethal to whales, but the latest research tells a very different story. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #235: IQ Testing
7 december 2010 · 14 min
IQ tests are fundamentally flawed, hopelessly inconsistent, and almost completely useless. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #234: The South Atlantic Anomaly
30 november 2010 · 12 min
This mysterious region in the south Atlantic was not responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #233: Student Questions: Bird Gender and Bad Karma
23 november 2010 · 11 min
Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students all around the world. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #232: Listener Feedback Rides Again
16 november 2010 · 12 min
A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #231: The Mystery of STENDEC
9 november 2010 · 13 min
We still don't know the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #230: DDT: Secret Life of a Pesticide
2 november 2010 · 14 min
DDT can be both a killer of birds and a savior against malaria. Rarely is a question as black and white as we'd like. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #229: Speed Reading
26 oktober 2010 · 12 min
Speed reading classes claim to be able to turbocharge your words per minute. Save your money; it doesn't work. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #228: My Favorite Things
19 oktober 2010 · 12 min
A few of my favorite moments looking back on 228 Skeptoid episodes. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #227: Boost Your Immune System (or Not)
12 oktober 2010 · 13 min
Although a lot of products promise to boost your immune system, there is actually no such thing. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #226: The Brown Mountain Lights
5 oktober 2010 · 15 min
A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads, but researchers solved it a century ago. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #225: Beware the Bilderberg Group!
28 september 2010 · 13 min
The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is not to plan global domination. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #224: Alien Downpour: The Red Rain of India
21 september 2010 · 13 min
News agencies have long promoted a 2001 red rainfall as alien, but a better explanation was already there. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #223: The Frog in the Stone
14 september 2010 · 14 min
Stories of living frogs being found encased in solid rock have a more interesting (and reality-based) explanation. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #222: Toil and Trouble: The Curse of Macbeth
7 september 2010 · 12 min
The Curse of Macbeth should make Shakespeare's play too dangerous to perform, but science tells us for sure. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #221: The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
31 augustus 2010 · 14 min
A critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #220: Yonaguni Monument: The Japanese Atlantis
24 augustus 2010 · 13 min
A look at a massive stone structure off the coast of Japan, said to be a manmade pyramid. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #219: Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrids
17 augustus 2010 · 14 min
Josef Stalin did not order the creation of an army of half-ape, half-human hybrids. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #218: The Astronauts and the Aliens
10 augustus 2010 · 14 min
A close look at some of the stories of UFOs said to have been reported by NASA astronauts. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #217: Some New Logical Fallacies
3 augustus 2010 · 12 min
Skeptoid looks at some newer logical fallacies, often used in place of sound arguments. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #216: The Things We Eat...
27 juli 2010 · 13 min
A look at what's really in food reveals the foolishness of the idea of "good food" and "bad food". Lees meer
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Skeptoid #215: Listener Feedback Resurrection
20 juli 2010 · 13 min
More vitriol from the Skeptoid inbox exposed. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #214: Student Questions: Gold as an Investment and FEMA Coffins
13 juli 2010 · 12 min
Another round of answering questions sent in by students everywhere. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #213: Mozart and Salieri
6 juli 2010 · 14 min
Shockingly, Hollywood movies don't make us all history experts, and Salieri didn't murder Mozart. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #212: Things About Which I Have In Error Been
29 juni 2010 · 13 min
More additions to the corrections and errata files for Skeptoid. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #211: Attack on Pearl Harbor
22 juni 2010 · 14 min
The American government did not have advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and did not allow it to happen. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #210: The North American Union
15 juni 2010 · 14 min
The United States, Canada, and Mexico are not planning to merge into a single huge police state. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #209: The Lost Ship of the Desert
8 juni 2010 · 12 min
The facts behind tall tales from the American southwest of ships found in the middle of the desert. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #208: The Westall '66 UFO
1 juni 2010 · 15 min
200 students watched a strange craft fly near their school in Australia in 1966 -- or so the story goes. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #207: Dinosaurs Among Us
25 mei 2010 · 13 min
All around the world, ancient art depicts creatures that some interpret as dinosaurs. Don't believe it. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #206: Morgellons Disease
18 mei 2010 · 13 min
In this newly described condition, some patients report strange plastic fibers growing from their skin. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #205: Beyond Listener Feedback
11 mei 2010 · 13 min
Another trip to the Listener Feedback files, including my favorite yet. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #204: Mengele's Boys from Brazil
4 mei 2010 · 13 min
A town in Brazil has an unusually high twin rate, but not because Josef Mengele survived and did experiments there. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #203: Therapeutic Touch
27 april 2010 · 14 min
Therapeutic touch is a pseudoscientific healing method that is neither therapeutic nor involves touch. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #202: The Non-Mystery of Puma Punku
20 april 2010 · 13 min
Though some claim the stone structures at Puma Punku were alien, archaeologists find no real mysteries there. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #201: The Virgin of Guadalupe
13 april 2010 · 16 min
Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe played an important role in the Catholic colonization of the Americas. Lees meer
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