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A close look at where recycling of some common materials is actually at these days.
It's time once again for Skeptoid to correct another round of errors in previous shows.
Some say creepy children with huge balloon heads stalk the woods at night, waiting to attack you.
The not-so-famous UFO case that caused the US Congress to spend millions of taxpayer dollars.
This controversial treatment for PTSD involves moving the eyes side to side.
Part 3 in our roundup of scientists who took the ultimate plunge and experimented on themselves.
In 2006, a flying saucer spent minutes literally hovering right above Chicago's O'Hare International Airport... so the story goes.
Can everything important about you and those you interact with be boiled down to a single digit?
What were these early UFOs that chased and harried World War II fighter pilots?
Were two waves of ax murders in the American south in the early 20th century truly associated with Louisiana Voodoo?
Proponents of alien visitation often claim the Alcubierre drive makes faster than light possible. Here's why it can't exist.
Skeptoid is looking for institutional partners and/or title sponsors for a proposed video series.
Was this infamous 1976 dioxin disaster as bad as reported, or might it have been much worse than we thought?
The carcasses of headless goats are floating in the Chattahoochee River; too many for a prosaic explanation.
A Benedictine monk is said to have built a device allowing him to see and hear historical events.
We break down four popular myths about Martin Luther King Jr. that just won't go away.
A failure mode analysis of my most-hated episode ever: #230 on the use of DDT to fight malaria.