Skeptoid

This mysterious alcoholic drink is the subject of more urban legends than any other liquor.

A proposal for how we can make skeptical programming more attractive to a larger audience.

Reliance on universal mathematical principles may mean alien music is similar to our own.

It's popular to criticize Mother Teresa, but that criticism might be better directed at the real culprit.

The FBI did not deliberately murder the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.

These superheroes of martial arts lore may not be exactly what you thought they were.

More pseudohistory than fact surrounds this ancient order's depictions in pop culture.

There is no truth to the popular myth that Hitler escaped Berlin and went to Argentina.

From swamp gas and waterspouts to alternative medicine, the harm of not challenging popular assumptions.

Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.

As long as people lose their hair, the market will remain flooded with sham remedies.

The reasons why PBS is so quick to promote pseudoscience informercials during pledge drives.

Your comments on our decision to remove the comments from Skeptoid episode transcript pages.

Whatever you think you know about Schrödinger's famous cat is probably wrong.

If you haven't yet found your curiosity in the first 500 episodes of Skeptoid, find it here.

Find out how the obviously false story of a curse came to be associated with this famous diamond.

Popular stories tell of WWI soldiers laying aside their rifles on Christmas 1914. The facts are not quite so simple.

The famous Rorschach inkblot test is not a window into the subconscious, and doesn't tell us anything useful.

Russian test subjects are said to have done unspeakably horrible things when sleep deprived.

A new live show from Skeptoid Media: Bad Skepticism!

The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation.

Black mold is commonly believed to harbor many deadly diseases; but in fact removing it is often worse than leaving it.

While the Stockholm syndrome sounds like a mere media buzzword, it does actually sometimes happen.

Questioning whether this new spa treatment provides all the medical benefits it claims.

Myths and competing claims fog the origin of the term 420, a slang code for marijuana.

Some say this tribe of "gentle savages", discovered in 1971, was just a hoax. The truth isn't quite so simple.

These products advertised in the back of comic books promised improbable feats of science.

This enigmatic author of the strange continues to confound.

No, climatologists in the 1970s did not believe we're headed into another ice age.

The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore.

Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it.

Some women you haven't heard of who made significant contributions to science.

These important scientists are virtually unknown. Let's see if we can fix that.

The fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence.

Think you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again.

This most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.

Chemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything.

Today we're going to answer questions sent in by listeners pertaining to episodes having to do with our natural world.

They say that a half-canine cryptid stalks the woods of Northern Michigan. Are they right?

An overview of the amazing chess playing robot of the 1700s.

Brian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes.

Certain specific sonic frequencies are not the key to love, intuition, or spiritual order.

A series of sightings of a frog-like humanoid in the suburb of Loveland, Ohio prompts an enduring folkloric legend.

Trofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology.

Infant male circumcision remains common in the United States. Today we look at the reasons and the implications.

In the last 50 years, marijuana has gone from menace to medicine. Which is it?

Conspiracy theory that a military training exercise is going to lead to martial law.

Brian responds to some listener feedback concerning the topic of fads.

A look at some common myths about babies and children.