Skeptoid

Some seek a natural or alien explanation for these aerial lights in Norway. Turns out the true cause is much simpler.

Science shows that the Yeti of the Himalayas is almost certainly not a real creature.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students.

Greek philosopher Zeno apparently proved that movement was impossible with a few simple paradoxes.

Prepare to have your mind blown by these listener emails from conspiracy theorists.

Therapies intended to help gays become straight don't work.

We usually dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy people; but that doesn't tell the whole story.

The Grand Duchess Anastasia did not survive her family's 1918 execution, and did not go on to live in the US.

A look at the possibility that legends of Haitian zombies may have a grain of truth.

A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife.

The facts behind the stories of military dolphins trained to attack divers and plant mines on ships.

Westerners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine is due in part to clever book publishers.

People can catch on fire… and there doesn't seem to be anything too mysterious about any given case.

This secret government lab was said to create genetic mutants. Here's what they actually did.

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

Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. The science behind it is less than compelling.

American POW/MIAs are probably not still being held captive inside Vietnam.

The 1996 mass murder in Tasmania was not secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned.

The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book.

Skeptoid answers more listener feedback. Recorded live at the 250th Episode party.

A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music.

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

Exorcisms are a brutal torture ritual with no hope of actually helping a person who believes themselves possessed.

This famous story of God once healing an amputee falls apart under historical scrutiny.

Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs.

Historians actually have a pretty complete picture of what happened to the "missing" Roanoke colonists.

Atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war would not result in devastating global cooling.

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

The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory.

Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas.

Various "gravitational anomalies" around the world have fascinating real science behind them.

Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people.

Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors.

Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true.

Navy sonar is claimed to be lethal to whales, but the latest research tells a very different story.

IQ tests are fundamentally flawed, hopelessly inconsistent, and almost completely useless.

This mysterious region in the south Atlantic was not responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447.

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

A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane.

We still don't know the significance of this mysterious final transmission of an airliner just before its crash.

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.

Speed reading classes claim to be able to turbocharge your words per minute. Save your money; it doesn't work.

A few of my favorite moments looking back on 228 Skeptoid episodes.

Although a lot of products promise to boost your immune system, there is actually no such thing.

A ghost light in North Carolina has people scratching their heads, but researchers solved it a century ago.

The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is not to plan global domination.

News agencies have long promoted a 2001 red rainfall as alien, but a better explanation was already there.

Stories of living frogs being found encased in solid rock have a more interesting (and reality-based) explanation.

The Curse of Macbeth should make Shakespeare's play too dangerous to perform, but science tells us for sure.

A critical look at the world's most popular psychological metric, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.