Skeptoid

Waterspouts have nothing to do with popular stories of frogs and fish falling from the sky.

More replies to some of Skeptoid's more colorful listener feedback.

Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith allegedly translated the adventures of Abraham in Egypt.

When scientists publicly debate promoters of pseudoscience, they often do more harm than good.

Organic agriculture provides no benefits whatsoever over science-based farming.

See if you can tell whether these food and fashion products are named after real people or fictitious people.

Believed by many to be an ancient mystical order, but really just a mail-order New Age literature business.

Critical thinking offers the opposite of what seems to be popular, yet we can still make it commercial.

The idea of locally grown produce as nowhere near as green as its proponents seem to think it is.

Some more jabs and punches between Skeptoid and its most vocal listeners.

Good arguments often go unused because poor arguments like ad hominems are so much easier.

A skeptical look at the Mothman, an alleged prophet of disaster.

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

A skeptical look at whether high fructose corn syrup is really any worse for you than sugar.

Mel's Hole is said to be a mysterious bottomless pit in eastern Washington state.

Some regard Neuro-linguistic Programming as a psychotherapy breakthrough, some as a New Age self-help trend.

Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947, but others almost certainly did so before him.

Another peek into the mailbag to see who loves us, and who hates us.

Mysterious blobs of flesh washed up on the world's beaches have been called everything from sea monsters to Cthulhu.

A look at the placebo effect: What it can do, what it can't do, and what you need to know about it.

A secret recording of an actual meeting of the Illuminati.

Although urban legends say the creator of Coral Castle had supernatural help, the photographs tell a different story.

Skeptoid answers some interesting questions sent in by students.

The science behind binaural beats: What they are, what they are claimed to do, and what they can actually do.

Young Earthers point to an infamous dating error as evidence that the Earth is only as old as the Bible says.

A skeptical look at the claim that FEMA maintains a network of prison camps in readiness.

A collection of bizarre human skulls from around the world.

Some believe that NASA is trying to turn Saturn or Jupiter into a small sun.

Answering more questions sent in by students.

More fun from the listener feedback files.

Belief that this hill in Bosnia is an ancient pyramid is driven by New Age woo and pathological science.

Sellers of new-age water treatment products charge outrageous prices for a product with zero plausibility.

Guess whether these popular characters from history were real or fictional.

The facts behind the story that a heavenly host saved a small group of British from a large German force in WWI.

Skeptoid answers another round of questions submitted by students.

Hard to believe, but it wasn't space aliens that caused blinking lights in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.

Skeptics and believers both tend to accuse each other of closed-mindedness in their thinking.

The Australian outback's mysterious jack o' lantern has sparked some good stories, but some even better science.

We cast our skeptical eye upon two vast hazards to navigation said to lurk in the centers of the two great oceans.

Wealthy and powerful men gather annually at the mysterious Bohemian Grove -- but not to plot global domination.

If they're offering extraterrestrial real estate or star-naming rights for sale, chances are it's a ripoff.

This mysterious treasure pit on a Nova Scotia island has a fascinating natural explanation.

Skeptoid answers some questions sent in by students.

The artificial sweetener aspartame is falsely accused of being the cause of nearly every disease.

We turn our skeptical eye on claims of incorruptibility - bodies that do not decay after death.

A critical look at the pseudoscientific antics of some of today's celebrities.

A critical look at the original UFO abduction story, that so many people take for granted.

More fun from the inbox, responding to listener feedback.

A close look at HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and the claim that it's a superweapon.

No, Nikola Tesla did not design a superweapon capable of vaporizing whole parts of the earth.