Skeptoid

Here are many popular myths about chocolate. How many can you tell are true or not? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

She may have gotten her start as Houdini's sidekick, but Rose Mackenberg became a giant of unmasking fraudulent mediums. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

You're going to get to enjoy some new guest hosts for a month or two on Skeptoid. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 5 May 2025

Super mushrooms are claimed by some to provide vague health benefits beyond their known nutritional values. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

A roundup of the world's riskiest volcanoes and fault zones — and they're not necessarily the most hazardous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

Some people try to feed their dogs the same alternative diet they eat themselves... not necessarily so good for the dog. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

Many of our preconceived notions about immigrants likely bear very little resemblance to the facts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

All of the ways you've heard that deep space wants to kill us — and how plausible or likely each scenario is. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

Vaccines are history's great medical success story, having saved more lives than anything else. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

Ten of the places where Atlantis true believers think the mythical city might actually be. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

Many of the Christian symbols created in the aftermath of the First Crusade have been adopted by White Nationalists. Why? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025

A look at recent studies finding leaded gasoline caused 151 million mental health illnesses in the United States. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025

This catchphrase has become popular with comedians. Is that in line with its true origin? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

Some believe a fabulous Spanish treasure is buried on the slopes of Oregon's Neahkahnie Mountain. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025

A few of your favorite experts weigh in on how you can make sure your information comes from the very best sources. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025

What really happened — and what didn't — in the 2024 telecom cyberattack. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025

Join us for our 2nd Annual Skeptoid Adventure, this time to the Bermuda Triangle! Early bird pricing ends this Friday, don't miss the boat! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 29 January 2025

Just as important as the question of how much the livestock industry contributes to global warming is whether your giving up meat will have any real impact. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 28 January 2025

The newer the data, and the longer we've had to study the epidemiology, the less harm we find that Agent Orange caused. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

Cloud seeding would seem like an easy and obvious way to create rain where none existed before. Is it really that simple?

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025

Economic nationalism, while attractive to many populists, is not the path to economic success some believe it to be.

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025

Skeptoid answers another round of feedback emails sent in by listeners.

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024

These schools combine an atypical education with a New Age spirituality called anthroposophy.

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024

Cryonics promises an opportunity for you to be frozen and revived at some distant point in the future — though with plenty of controversy.

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2024

Skeptoid answers another round of questions from students all around the world.

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2024

What could explain a strange creature living in the suburbs, but only ever witnessed once?

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2024

On this Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting Skeptoid Media (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization) and our mission of cultivating critical thinking and science literacy skills. Donations will be matched by our Board of Directors!

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2024

Skeptoid corrects another round of errors in previous episodes.

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2024

This alleged sea serpent terrorized a New England fishing village for two years in the 19th century.

Transcribed - Published: 19 November 2024

Bats are scary and rabies is deadly, but do you need to worry about you or your pets catching the disease from them?

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2024

A report from the recent Skeptoid Adventures trip to Death Valley, including how many brave souls we lost in the desert and how they met their fate; and announcing the next Skeptoid Adventures trip to the Bermuda Triangle! Reserve your spot now at https://skeptoid.com/events/30285

Transcribed - Published: 6 November 2024

A mysterious man is said to have arrived in Japan in 1959 from a country that never existed.

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2024

Seven creepy stories from seven listeners, and seven guesses by me.

Transcribed - Published: 29 October 2024

A thoroughly discredited idea, that the Mesoamerican Olmec people were Black Africans, continues to gain traction.

Transcribed - Published: 22 October 2024

This buried rock wall found throughout Rockwall County has people wondering about its origin.

Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2024

It's Skeptoid's 18th birthday! Won't you help us celebrate by giving us a little birthday present?

Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2024

Can dogs be taught to speak intelligently using floor buttons that represent words?

Transcribed - Published: 8 October 2024

Highlights from 18 years of the Skeptoid podcast.

Transcribed - Published: 1 October 2024

Fifteen trivia questions from previous aviation themed episodes of Skeptoid.

Transcribed - Published: 24 September 2024

15 popular myths about sleeping, debunked.

Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2024

Join the Skeptoid Flash Mob at CSICon 2024 in Las Vegas. Visit skeptoid.com/store to get your shirts.

Transcribed - Published: 11 September 2024

Lots of companies sell pheromone products claiming to calm down your dog or cat, but there's a very big problem with that basic claim.

Transcribed - Published: 10 September 2024

Is this just another in a long line of legendary lost mines that never produced a speck of gold, or is there more to it this time?

Transcribed - Published: 3 September 2024

Turns out that the cause of death known as excited delirium is not an actual cause of death at all.

Transcribed - Published: 27 August 2024

If I were to summarize how and why I do what I do, I might put it this way.

Transcribed - Published: 20 August 2024

Does a mythical place where the elephants go to die actually exist?

Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2024

The claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US has never been close to true.

Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2024

Is your phone really tracking your driving habits and selling the data? Maybe more so than you know.

Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2024

The weirdest, creepiest, funniest, and just plain strange stories from the era of crewed space flight.

Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2024

Pseudoarchaeologists often will cite the Younger Dryas climatic event as proof of their ancient advanced civilization.

Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2024