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Skeptoid #890: Skeptoid Scared Straight
27 juni 2023 · 14 min
In which I issue yet another round of corrections to past episodes. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #889: Handling Fentanyl: A Touchy Topic
20 juni 2023 · 14 min
Popular wisdom tells us that just touching fentanyl can produce a lethal overdose. What's the fact and what's the fiction? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #888: On the Trail of the Mapinguari
13 juni 2023 · 14 min
Are ground sloths that somehow survived their extinction responsible for cryptid sightings in the Amazon? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #887: The Hard Fall of the Nephilim
6 juni 2023 · 15 min
Did giants really walk the Earth in our recent past? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #886: Student Questions: College of Central Florida, Part 2
30 mei 2023 · 14 min
Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #885: Student Questions: College of Central Florida, Part 1
23 mei 2023 · 14 min
Skeptoid answers a round of student questions recorded during a visit to the College of Central Florida. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #884: Hunting the Florida Skunk Ape
16 mei 2023 · 16 min
This Bigfoot-like cryptid is said to haunt the swamps of Florida. But has the story been around as long as people think? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #883: Lies, Damned Lies, and Polls
9 mei 2023 · 14 min
Watch out next time you take a poll... is someone trying to learn about you, or manipulate you? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #882: The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 3
2 mei 2023 · 15 min
The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #881: The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 2
25 april 2023 · 12 min
The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #880: The Treasure of Victorio Peak, Part 1
18 april 2023 · 13 min
The hunt for the greatest treasure of gold ever imagined. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #879: Alien Octopi
11 april 2023 · 15 min
A popular Internet claim asserts that the DNA of the octopus is literally alien in origin. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #878: Reining In the Expanding Earth
4 april 2023 · 16 min
Although the Expanding Earth may seem like a silly conjecture, it was actually one of the leading geophysical models quite recently. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #877: What the Oil Companies Really Knew, Part 2
28 maart 2023 · 16 min
Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #876: What the Oil Companies Really Knew, Part 1
21 maart 2023 · 15 min
Is it true that the oil companies knew how much harm they were doing as far back as the 1970s? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #875: Pop Quiz: St. Patrick's Day
14 maart 2023 · 16 min
Today's quiz tests whether you've been skeptical of what you think you know about St. Patrick's Day. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #874: The Devil's Tramping Ground
7 maart 2023 · 15 min
Popular tales claim no plants at all will grow inside this round clearing in North Carolina, said to have been made by the Devil himself. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #873: Earthquake Prediction
28 februari 2023 · 15 min
After every earthquake, there's always someone who claims to have predicted it. Is earthquake prediction possible? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #872: Climate Change Checkup: 2023 Edition
21 februari 2023 · 17 min
The state of the climate so far... how we're doing, and what do we need to work on the most. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #871: 7 Valentine's Day Myths
14 februari 2023 · 15 min
See if you can tell whether each of these popular beliefs about Valentine's Day are true or false. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #870: The Dirty Secret of Dirty Electricity
7 februari 2023 · 16 min
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? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #869: The Goat Man of Pope Lick Bridge
31 januari 2023 · 13 min
Stories of goat men are all over the world. Why is the Pope Lick goat man disproportionately famous? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #868: Top 10 Most Harmful Anti-Experts: 2023 Edition
24 januari 2023 · 17 min
Once again we round up the people working hardest to spread misinformation. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #867: Student Questions: Guidestones and Tachyons
17 januari 2023 · 15 min
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by friendly folks all over the world. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #866: What THEY Don't Want You to Know About UFOs
10 januari 2023 · 16 min
Some great ways to think about all the current UFO craze. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #865: The Non-Mystery of Nan Madol
3 januari 2023 · 18 min
Was this megalithic site in the South Pacific built by the people who lived there at the time, or by aliens? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #864: Ask Me Anything, 2022 Edition
27 december 2022 · 14 min
In which we wrap up 2022 by letting Skeptoid premium members Ask Me Anything. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #863: Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Woo
20 december 2022 · 14 min
The latest form of magnet therapy promises to cure everything from headaches to cancer. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #862: Human Mosquito Magnets
13 december 2022 · 14 min
Is it true that mosquitoes like some people better than others? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #861: Marketing with Logical Fallacies
6 december 2022 · 15 min
A look at some of the logically fallacious statements used to sell many of today's most popular products. Lees meer
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The Big UFO Update!
30 november 2022 · 4 min
The latest news, and some clips, from my indie documentary The UFO Movie THEY Don't Want You to See! Lees meer
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Skeptoid #860: Illuminating the Hornet Spooklight
29 november 2022 · 15 min
Legend has it this ghost light has been spooking people in Missouri for hundreds of years. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #859: How to Spot Fake News
22 november 2022 · 14 min
A roundup of easy techniques anyone can employ to better discern accurate news reports from false ones. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #858: Resignation Syndrome
15 november 2022 · 15 min
In this bizarre psychiatric condition, healthy children lapse into a coma that may last for years. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #857: On the Health Benefits of Drinking Alcohol
8 november 2022 · 14 min
Some say that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol actually has certain health benefits. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #856: A Cavalcade of Corrections
1 november 2022 · 16 min
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #855: Sniffing for Human Sex Pheromones
25 oktober 2022 · 16 min
Do humans use pheromones to turn each other on? The science so far says... uhh, we have no idea. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #854: The Day Science Was Overthrown
18 oktober 2022 · 15 min
A look at six times when there was a major paradigm shift in science. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #853: Brazil's Roswell: The Varginha UFO
11 oktober 2022 · 14 min
This story of alien visitation in Brazil from 1996 claims to be the most convincing proof we have. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #852: Electric Cars and the Power Grid
4 oktober 2022 · 15 min
Opponents of electric cars claim that the power grid can't keep up with the growing demand for electricity. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #851: How Your Smartphone Is Listening to You
27 september 2022 · 15 min
Is your smartphone eavesdropping on your conversation? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #850: Ode to the Nightcrawler
20 september 2022 · 7 min
Beware of this creepy cryptid, or you might just fall in love with it. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #849: Who Really Killed the Electric Car?
13 september 2022 · 16 min
Pop culture tells us that a conspiracy is what killed GM's EV1 in 2002. But is an exotic explanation really needed? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #848: On the Trail of Papillon
6 september 2022 · 13 min
How much truth was there to the prison escape story of Henri Charrière? Lees meer
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Skeptoid #847: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 2
30 augustus 2022 · 14 min
Some more of the episodes where I went in with one idea, and came out with another. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #846: The Episodes That Changed My Mind, Part 1
23 augustus 2022 · 14 min
Some of the episodes where I went in expecting one thing, but found something different. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #845: Seeking the Soviet Battle Mole
16 augustus 2022 · 15 min
The story goes that the Soviet Union had nuclear-powered underground vehicles for waging a whole new kind of war. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #844: What They're Saying About Electric Cars Now
9 augustus 2022 · 15 min
The arguments made by electric car haters no longer hold up. Time to upgrade. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #843: Pop Quiz: Religious Symbolism
2 augustus 2022 · 17 min
How well do you know your Skeptoid? Today's pop quiz focuses on questions drawn from episodes about world religions. Lees meer
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Skeptoid #842: The Day the UFO Deactivated the Nukes
26 juli 2022 · 16 min
It's said that in 1967, a UFO once deactivated an entire flight of US nuclear missiles in their silos. Lees meer
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