Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena

Listeners Have Another Say

Skeptoid supporters reveal the reason they decided to join the ...

Skeptoid supporters reveal the reason they decided to join the team.

Skeptoid #425: Albino Facts and Fiction

Even in developed countries, myths persist about people who have ...

Even in developed countries, myths persist about people who have albinism.

Skeptoid #424: The Santa Barbara Simoom of 1859

Stories of a lethally hot storm wind in Santa Barbara ...

Stories of a lethally hot storm wind in Santa Barbara in 1859 persist to this day.

Skeptoid #423: 12 Step Programs

Are religious-based twelve step programs better at stopping addiction than ...

Are religious-based twelve step programs better at stopping addiction than other programs?

Skeptoid #422: Lie Detection

Has technology ever been able to reliably discriminate between lies ...

Has technology ever been able to reliably discriminate between lies and truths?

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Giving the Skeptoid listeners a chance to have their say.

Skeptoid #421: Student Questions: Internet Tracking and Plasma Cosmology

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students ...

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.

Skeptoid #420: Hillary vs. Mallory: The First to Everest

Did George Mallory really beat Sir Edmund Hillary to the ...

Did George Mallory really beat Sir Edmund Hillary to the summit of Mount Everest in 1924?

Skeptoid #419: Slacktivism: Raising Awareness

Does clicking a "Like" button on a web site really ...

Does clicking a "Like" button on a web site really accomplish anything useful?

Skeptoid #418: Left Brained, Right Brained, or Hare Brained?

Pop psychology tells us we're all either left brain dominant ...

Pop psychology tells us we're all either left brain dominant or right brain dominant. Really?