Skeptoid

By Brian DunningScience Social Sciences

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Skeptoid episodes

February 16, 2016 Skeptoid #506: Bad Skepticism: Why You Should Challenge Popular Assumptions
From swamp gas and waterspouts to alternative medicine, the harm of not challenging popular assumptions.
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13 min
February 09, 2016 Skeptoid #505: You've Got to Be Wrong to Be Right
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.
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14 min
February 02, 2016 Skeptoid #504: Growing Skeptical of Hair Restoration
As long as people lose their hair, the market will remain flooded with sham remedies.
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15 min
January 26, 2016 Skeptoid #503: Bad Science on PBS
The reasons why PBS is so quick to promote pseudoscience informercials during pledge drives.
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15 min
January 19, 2016 Skeptoid #502: Listener Feedback: Killing the Comments
Your comments on our decision to remove the comments from Skeptoid episode transcript pages.
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14 min
January 12, 2016 Skeptoid #501: Schrodinger's Cat and the Bomb Detector
Whatever you think you know about Schrödinger's famous cat is probably wrong.
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14 min
January 05, 2016 Skeptoid #500: A Little Curiosity
If you haven't yet found your curiosity in the first 500 episodes of Skeptoid, find it here.
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7 min
December 29, 2015 Skeptoid #499: The Hope Diamond: A Curse Deconstructed
Find out how the obviously false story of a curse came to be associated with this famous diamond.
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14 min
December 22, 2015 Skeptoid #498: Did the 1914 Christmas Truce Really Happen?
Popular stories tell of WWI soldiers laying aside their rifles on Christmas 1914. The facts are not quite so simple.
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13 min
December 15, 2015 Skeptoid #497: A Skeptical Look at the Rorschach Test
The famous Rorschach inkblot test is not a window into the subconscious, and doesn't tell us anything useful.
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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…