Episodes
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Published 11/14/23
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors in past episodes pointed out by listeners.
Published 11/07/23
Celebrating Halloween with the creepiest ghost stories sent in by you, our listeners.
Published 10/31/23
Do lots of famous pop musicians really die at the age of 27, or is there something in science that just makes us think so?
Published 10/24/23
Did the village of Nazareth exist at the time of Jesus, making it possible for there to have been a Jesus of Nazareth?
Published 10/17/23
Some claim that artificial turf sports fields emit poisonous chemicals, making them dangerous for children.
Published 10/10/23
What better way to celebrate 17 years of the Skeptoid podcast than a 17-question pop quiz!
Published 10/03/23
Does a monster salamander the size of Asia's largest live undiscovered in the Pacific Northwest?
Published 09/26/23
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Published 09/25/23
Can you really make your eyesight better with a simple series of eye movements and exercises?
Published 09/19/23
Severed feet have been washing up on the shores of the Salish Sea since 2007. What could be the cause?
Published 09/12/23
How an old Italian UFO hoax became proof of alien visitation to the US Congress
Published 09/05/23
This supplement is claimed by social media influencers to be Nature's Ozempic.
Published 08/29/23
Reports from some extreme adventurers say that a benevolent presence sometimes appears to provide comfort.
Published 08/22/23
Pop culture tells us the famous Norden bombsight from World War II was actually terribly inaccurate. Was it?
Published 08/15/23
This greatest of all imaginable treasures from the Dead Sea Scrolls probably never existed.
Published 08/08/23
Is the world record highest air temperature a solid measurement, or might it be invalid?
Published 08/01/23
Are these remarkable stones natural, or proof of an ancient advanced civilization?
Published 07/25/23
Were these two men from an Amazon tribe that had been massacred, or could their story be explained more simply?
Published 07/18/23
A look into the origin story of swamp gas as the explanation for UFOs.
Published 07/11/23
A roundup of the ways that work — and that don't work — to help a conspiracy theorist free himself from the rabbit hole.
Published 07/04/23
In which I issue yet another round of corrections to past episodes.
Published 06/27/23
Popular wisdom tells us that just touching fentanyl can produce a lethal overdose. What's the fact and what's the fiction?
Published 06/20/23
Are ground sloths that somehow survived their extinction responsible for cryptid sightings in the Amazon?
Published 06/13/23
Did giants really walk the Earth in our recent past?
Published 06/06/23