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Pop psychology tells us we're all either left brain or right brain dominant, a concept with no scientific support.

The 1945 disappearance of five fighter planes in the Bermuda Triangle was real, but hardly how it's portrayed.

Skeptoid listeners are always asking for conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Here are the best I found.

Skeptoid corrects another round of mistakes made in previous episodes.

Some say the death of Princess Diana in 1997 was actually a murder plotted by her government.

This mysterious code representing vigilante justice has a history steeped in mystery.

Despite many examples being promoted in the press, animals do not have psychic powers.

There is no such thing as your body's energy field.

An urban legend says that children with completely black eyes go around trying to be allowed inside.

This New Age alternative health fad is not, in fact, based on ayurveda.

Donations to Skeptoid Media are now fully tax deductible.

Phobias are irrational, yet the brain surprisingly has a good reason for creating them.

What we do and do not know about the mysterious death of Bavaria's Mad King who built castles like Neuschwanstein.

This popular bandleader disappeared over the English Channel during World War II, and here's what happened.

If you're expecting the pleasant aroma of certain flowers and herbs to be a medical treatment, you may be disappointed.

The Boggy Creek Monster captured our imaginations, but its true story is even more fascinating.

Some objects found around the world seem to defy rational explanation.

I respond to questions and feedback sent in by listeners around the world.

A popular urban legend claims that William Randolph Hearst conspired to make cannabis illegal in the United States.

Some pseudoscience promoters attack the messenger rather than the evidence.

An old tale tells of coffins that jumbled themselves up in a crypt in Barbados.

Two dead bodies were found in Brazil in 1966 with mysterious masks made of lead.

Years after the disaster, some claim that Fukushima radiation is still going to cause widespread death.

A tour of the Earth's biggest, oldest, and most lethal living creatures.

Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students, all of them this week pertaining to popular food pseudoscience.

Stories that outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid might have made it back from South America don't hold up.

Hold onto your hats: Growing your hair long will not confer super strength or vitality upon you.

Skeptoid responds to comments sent in by listeners who don't accept that they've been ripped off.

Guess which of these secret military bases around the world are real.

Some say that an early Native American tribe were giant cannibals.

After so many decades, the number of incompatible conspiracy theories about the death of JFK continues to grow.

Despite activist claims, wind turbines are not making anybody sick.

Of all the many claims of Europeans being first to the New World, only one is true.

Some say this extinct Tasmanian marsupial may still roam the forests. The evidence is against them.

A young pilot who disappeared in 1978 might have been having a little fun, Spielberg style.

A line of reasoning named for Socrates helps us help believers in the strange re-examine their beliefs.

Some people who enjoy raw milk also make up false claims that regular milk is more dangerous.

A look into the plausibility and historicity of the ferocious maelstrom of legend.

A quick look at many of the most common scientific study types.

The crew of a blimp mysteriously vanished in 1942, but their blimp came back OK... without them.

Skeptoid corrects a bunch of errors made in previous episodes.

We look at twelve legendary places that you've heard of, but may not know whether they're real or not.

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

A new trend in spas is to let people relax in salt caves, and it's based on solid pseudoscience.

The true history behind the iconic Bigfoot film that launched the legend.

Skeptoid answers a raft of listener emails pertaining to alternative medicine.

The urban legend that the CIA conducted unethical mind control experiments has a grain of truth.

If you can demonstrate a power unknown to science, there are people looking to write you a check.

The legend of the disappearing Eskimo village of Angikuni Lake turns out to be simple pulp fiction.

Background music really can influence our buying decisions in a shopping environment.