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Skeptoid #932: Is Recycling for Real?

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 2:00am

A close look at where recycling of some common materials is actually at these days.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #931: Error Erasure Extravaganza

Tue, 04/09/2024 - 2:00am

It's time once again for Skeptoid to correct another round of errors in previous shows.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #930: Dr. Crow and the Melon Heads

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 2:00am

Some say creepy children with huge balloon heads stalk the woods at night, waiting to attack you.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #929: The Trinity UFO Crash of 1945

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 2:00am

The not-so-famous UFO case that caused the US Congress to spend millions of taxpayer dollars.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #928: EMDR: Looking Past the Pain

Tue, 03/19/2024 - 2:00am

This controversial treatment for PTSD involves moving the eyes side to side.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #927: I Can't Believe They Did That: Human Guinea Pigs #3

Tue, 03/12/2024 - 2:00am

Part 3 in our roundup of scientists who took the ultimate plunge and experimented on themselves.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #926: The Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO

Tue, 03/05/2024 - 2:00am

In 2006, a flying saucer spent minutes literally hovering right above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport... so the story goes.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #925: The Conspirituality of Enneagrams

Tue, 02/27/2024 - 2:00am

Can everything important about you and those you interact with be boiled down to a single digit?

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #924: Foo Fighters

Tue, 02/20/2024 - 2:00am

What were these early UFOs that chased and harried World War II fighter pilots?

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #923: The Voodoo Ax Murders

Tue, 02/13/2024 - 2:00am

Were two waves of ax murders in the American south in the early 20th century truly associated with Louisiana Voodoo?

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #922: Testing Alcubierre's Warp Drive

Tue, 02/06/2024 - 2:00am

Proponents of alien visitation often claim the Alcubierre drive makes faster than light possible. Here's why it can't exist.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Institutional Partners for Our New Show

Fri, 02/02/2024 - 2:00am

Skeptoid is looking for institutional partners and/or title sponsors for a proposed video series.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #921: Reconsidering the Seveso Dioxin Disaster

Tue, 01/30/2024 - 2:00am

Was this infamous 1976 dioxin disaster as bad as reported, or might it have been much worse than we thought?

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #920: The Headless Goats of the Chattahoochee

Tue, 01/23/2024 - 2:00am

The carcasses of headless goats are floating in the Chattahoochee River; too many for a prosaic explanation.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #919: Looking Back on the Chronovisor

Tue, 01/16/2024 - 2:00am

A Benedictine monk is said to have built a device allowing him to see and hear historical events.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #918: Martin Luther King Jr. Myths

Tue, 01/09/2024 - 2:00am

We break down four popular myths about Martin Luther King Jr. that just won't go away.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #917: DDT, 13 Years Later

Tue, 01/02/2024 - 2:00am

A failure mode analysis of my most-hated episode ever: #230 on the use of DDT to fight malaria.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic