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Skeptoid #960: I Know What Scares You

Tue, 10/29/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #959: Finding the Black Olmec

Tue, 10/22/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #958: The Rock Wall of Texas

Tue, 10/15/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

It's Skeptoid's 18th Birthday!

Fri, 10/11/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #957: Dogs Who Type

Tue, 10/08/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #956: 18 for 18

Tue, 10/01/2024 - 2:00am

Highlights from 18 years of the Skeptoid podcast.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #955: Pop Quiz: Astonishing Aviation Tales

Tue, 09/24/2024 - 2:00am

Fifteen trivia questions from previous aviation themed episodes of Skeptoid.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #954: 15 Sleep Myths

Tue, 09/17/2024 - 2:00am

15 popular myths about sleeping, debunked.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid Flash Mob at CSICon 2024

Wed, 09/11/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #953: Pet Pheromone Products

Tue, 09/10/2024 - 2:00am

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.

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #952: Finding Slumach's Gold

Tue, 09/03/2024 - 2:00am

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?

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #951: Dying of Excited Delirium

Tue, 08/27/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #950: A Modern Skeptic Podcast Host

Tue, 08/20/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #949: Hunting the Graveyard of the Elephants

Tue, 08/13/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #948: Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

Tue, 08/06/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #947: How Your Driving Is Being Tracked

Tue, 07/30/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #946: Strange but True Stories from Space

Tue, 07/23/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic

Skeptoid #945: A Sea of Younger Dryas Woo

Tue, 07/16/2024 - 2:00am

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

Categories: Critical Thinking, Skeptic