Skeptoid

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

The world's most famous cryptid is said to swim in Scotland's most famous loch.

A look at the belief that nanotechnology may result in an army of self-replicating machines that consume society.

Skeptoid announces two new paperbacks: "Astronauts, Aliens, and Ape-Men" plus "The Secret of the Gypsy Queen".

Some say that Persian theologian al-Ghazali was solely responsible for the end of the Golden Age of science.

Declassified military documents show that Iranian fighter planes engaged a UFO in 1976. Here's what's actually known.

Skeptoid goes back and corrects some errors from previous episodes.

Now that Area 51 has been declassified, we finally have proof that what they did had nothing to do with aliens.

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

Some believe that world governments and economies are secretly controlled by the Rothschild banking family.

Many popular anecdotes tell how and why some people are left-handed, but the true facts are even more interesting.

How global warming became the poster boy for failed science communication.

Although the book and movie convinced many that this story actually happened, it is purely a fictional invention.

Russian scientists are said to have drilled a borehole that broke into hell and released the screams of the damned.

Skeptoid dips into the feedback mailbag to respond to comments from listeners.

A look at some of history's most famous scientists who experimented upon themselves.

A look at what is and isn't known about history's most infamous serial killer.

Many audio aficionados split into two camps, those supporting modern digital audio, and those supporting vinyl records.

A geologist claimed to have discovered a new species of great ape in Venezuela in the early 20th century.

Treasure hunters comb Virginia searching for a legendary hoard of gold and silver.

A little girl saves her kingdom when she is the only one who does not fall for the pop pseudoscience of the day.

Jellylike blobs have been reported to fall from the sky during meteor showers. Aliens? No, science.

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

Four common types of analytical errors in reasoning that we all need to beware of.

We can be sure that two women visiting Versaille in 1901 did not time-travel back to the days of Marie Antoinette.

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the worst examples of television promoting pseudohistory.

Skeptoid answers some listener emails that present common flaws in scientific thinking.

The true history behind the claimed Nazi "wonder weapons" like anti-gravity flying saucers.

A thin, dark phantom three times the height of a man is said to stalk this peak in the Cairngorms.

The story goes that in 1994, fumes from a woman's body knocked out most of an emergency room staff.

My process for examining a new topic, to learn whether it's fact or fiction.

The facts, as we know them, about what really happened to maritime lore's most famous missing crew.

Pit bulls have a reputation for being the most dangerous dog breed. Turns out the facts just don't support that.

An urban legend in Korea states that running an electric fan at night can kill you.

Skeptoid responds to some feedback emails notable for their dependence on straw man arguments.

Skeptoid corrects another round of errors found in previous episodes.

No good evidence supports the claims that the leader of the Bounty mutineers made it safely back to England.

My list of the worst offenders on the web in the promotion of scientific and factual misinformation.

Said to have been haunting New Jersey for nearly 300 years, this alleged creature has its actual origins in politics.

Most election methods are fundamentally broken, but can be fixed with any of a number of tweaks.

The claim that someone else wrote Shakespeare's works is popular, but virtually indefensible.

Why it's impossible for a wooden vessel the size of Noah's Ark to be seaworthy.

Both brainwashing and its opposite, deprogramming, are equally mythological.

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

The story of a living beast in Scotland's Glamis Castle may have a nugget of truth.

There are lots of reasons to move away from fossil fuels, but the supposed hazards of fracking just aren't among them.

Another batch of listener emails answered and dissected. And served.

Demonizing radio transmitters as carcinogenic is popular, but is not supported by any reasonable science.

We are not alone in the galaxy. Here's why that doesn't mean we've been visited by anyone.

There is no plausible reason to think a conspiracy of Jews plans to take over the world's banks and governments.