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Lots of companies sell pheromone products claiming to calm down your dog or cat, but there's a very big problem with that basic claim.

Is this just another in a long line of legendary lost mines that never produced a speck of gold, or is there more to it this time?

Turns out that the cause of death known as excited delirium is not an actual cause of death at all.

If I were to summarize how and why I do what I do, I might put it this way.

Does a mythical place where the elephants go to die actually exist?

The claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US has never been close to true.

Is your phone really tracking your driving habits and selling the data? Maybe more so than you know.

The weirdest, creepiest, funniest, and just plain strange stories from the era of crewed space flight.

Pseudoarchaeologists often will cite the Younger Dryas climatic event as proof of their ancient advanced civilization.

Not only is the entire wellness industry BS, it exists because of people who are especially gullible.

Fear not; the aliens are not coming to Earth.

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A roundup of all those things that movies always get wrong and make you mad.

How we decide what makes a good topic for a skeptical documentary film.

This modern UFO case has been declared to be one of the most compelling ever.

The true history of a mythical place.

This procedure promising facial rejuvenation is basically a full face tattoo of your own blood.

A bizarre subculture of Helen Keller Truthers believe that she was either faking her deafblindness or even that she didn't exist at all.

A roundup of 15 common myths about coffee. Which ones had you always believed?

Skeptoid answers another round of listener feedback questions.

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The story goes that this stone covered with Viking runes was found in a Minnesota field in 1898. Its true history is much more interesting.

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Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus of natural origin, or was it engineered in a Chinese research lab?

A close look at where recycling of some common materials is actually at these days.

It's time once again for Skeptoid to correct another round of errors in previous shows.

Some say creepy children with huge balloon heads stalk the woods at night, waiting to attack you.

The not-so-famous UFO case that caused the US Congress to spend millions of taxpayer dollars.

This controversial treatment for PTSD involves moving the eyes side to side.

Part 3 in our roundup of scientists who took the ultimate plunge and experimented on themselves.

In 2006, a flying saucer spent minutes literally hovering right above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport... so the story goes.

Can everything important about you and those you interact with be boiled down to a single digit?

What were these early UFOs that chased and harried World War II fighter pilots?

Were two waves of ax murders in the American south in the early 20th century truly associated with Louisiana Voodoo?

Proponents of alien visitation often claim the Alcubierre drive makes faster than light possible. Here's why it can't exist.

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Was this infamous 1976 dioxin disaster as bad as reported, or might it have been much worse than we thought?

The carcasses of headless goats are floating in the Chattahoochee River; too many for a prosaic explanation.

A Benedictine monk is said to have built a device allowing him to see and hear historical events.

We break down four popular myths about Martin Luther King Jr. that just won't go away.

A failure mode analysis of my most-hated episode ever: #230 on the use of DDT to fight malaria.

Skeptoid rapid fires a bunch of mini-episodes in answer to your questions.

A year-end Ask Me Anything session to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Skeptoid and more.

Help us say goodbye to 2023, Skeptoid style.

Does science have a way to reliably cure the hiccups?

This Brazilian island is said to be too dangerous to visit due to countless venomous snakes.

Some believe that taking a deadly frog poison confers a vast array of New Age wellness benefits.

Some believe this speculative rogue planet is on a collision course with the Earth.

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