Skeptoid

By Brian DunningScience Social Sciences

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Skeptoid episodes

January 18, 2011 Skeptoid #241: The Alien Buried in Texas
Some believe a space alien is buried in a rural cemetery in Aurora, Texas.
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13 min
January 11, 2011 Skeptoid #240: Mystery Spots
Various "gravitational anomalies" around the world have fascinating real science behind them.
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13 min
January 04, 2011 Skeptoid #239: Gluten Free Diets
Gluten free diets provide no benefits at all for healthy people.
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13 min
December 28, 2010 Skeptoid #238: More Hollywood Myths
Was John Wayne's cancer death caused by filming downwind of the Nevada Test Site? ...and other Hollywood rumors.
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13 min
December 21, 2010 Skeptoid #237: Hollywood Myths
Skeptoid looks into some of the classic Hollywood legends that you've always believed are true.
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13 min
December 14, 2010 Skeptoid #236: Whales and Sonar
Navy sonar is claimed to be lethal to whales, but the latest research tells a very different story.
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14 min
December 07, 2010 Skeptoid #235: IQ Testing
IQ tests are fundamentally flawed, hopelessly inconsistent, and almost completely useless.
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15 min
November 30, 2010 Skeptoid #234: The South Atlantic Anomaly
This mysterious region in the south Atlantic was not responsible for the crash of Air France flight 447.
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13 min
November 23, 2010 Skeptoid #233: Student Questions: Bird Gender and Bad Karma
Skeptoid answers questions sent in by students all around the world.
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11 min
November 16, 2010 Skeptoid #232: Listener Feedback Rides Again
A peek inside the Skeptoid inbox, ranging from the sane to the insane.
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12 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…