Skeptoid

By Brian DunningScience Social Sciences

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Skeptoid episodes

March 29, 2011 Skeptoid #251: Listener Feedback: Nobody Ever Posts Twice
Skeptoid answers more listener feedback. Recorded live at the 250th Episode party.
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16 min
March 22, 2011 Skeptoid #250: The History of Knowledge
A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music.
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13 min
March 15, 2011 Skeptoid #249: Student Questions: Airport X-Rays, Shampoo, and the Moon
Skeptoid answers another round of science questions sent in by students all around the world.
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13 min
March 08, 2011 Skeptoid #248: The Exorcism of Anneliese
Exorcisms are a brutal torture ritual with no hope of actually helping a person who believes themselves possessed.
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14 min
March 01, 2011 Skeptoid #247: The Miracle of Calanda
This famous story of God once healing an amputee falls apart under historical scrutiny.
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13 min
February 22, 2011 Skeptoid #246: Corrections, Errata, Blunders, and Boo-Boos
Skeptoid revisits another batch of episodes with errors, and rights the wrongs.
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13 min
February 15, 2011 Skeptoid #245: Finding the Lost Colony of Roanoke
Historians actually have a pretty complete picture of what happened to the "missing" Roanoke colonists.
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13 min
February 08, 2011 Skeptoid #244: Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter
Atmospheric smoke from a nuclear war would not result in devastating global cooling.
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12 min
February 01, 2011 Skeptoid #243: Student Questions: Orbo, EVPs, and Shakespeare
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.
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13 min
January 25, 2011 Skeptoid #242: Scientology
The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory.
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14 min

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The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative…