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Come join the Skeptoid Adventures trip for 2024, a journey of exploration in Death Valley!

05-02
03:47

Skeptoid #934: Decoding the Kensington Runestone

The story goes that this stone covered with Viking runes was found in a Minnesota field in 1898. Its true history is much more interesting.

04-30
18:32

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04-26
00:54

Skeptoid #933: COVID-19 and the Lab Leak

Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus of natural origin, or was it engineered in a Chinese research lab?

04-23
21:54

Skeptoid #932: Is Recycling for Real?

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

04-16
16:27

Skeptoid #931: Error Erasure Extravaganza

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

04-09
17:05

Skeptoid #930: Dr. Crow and the Melon Heads

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

04-02
16:31

Skeptoid #929: The Trinity UFO Crash of 1945

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

03-26
21:47

Skeptoid #928: EMDR: Looking Past the Pain

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

03-19
16:54

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

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

03-12
19:46

Skeptoid #926: The Chicago O'Hare Airport UFO

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

03-05
16:43

Skeptoid #925: The Conspirituality of Enneagrams

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

02-27
19:24

Skeptoid #924: Foo Fighters

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

02-20
18:36

Skeptoid #923: The Voodoo Ax Murders

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

02-13
17:02

Skeptoid #922: Testing Alcubierre's Warp Drive

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

02-06
16:41

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02-02
01:13

Skeptoid #921: Reconsidering the Seveso Dioxin Disaster

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

01-30
17:29

Skeptoid #920: The Headless Goats of the Chattahoochee

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

01-23
18:18

Skeptoid #919: Looking Back on the Chronovisor

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

01-16
17:39

Skeptoid #918: Martin Luther King Jr. Myths

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

01-09
16:00

Hairy Wampa

Til feudal china was capitalist. This show is general great, but i stg the american libertarian brain rot is hard to hear. Maoist China (Svoiet Russia for that matter) were never communist, anymore than North Korea is a democratic republic. Besides that, having a commodity market isn't capitalism, pre-maoist china was feudalist. Maoist China was State Capitalist (fascism using communist terms for spin) and remains so to this day.

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Hairy Wampa

The next decade of Republican fascism makes this seem really optimistic in hindsight lol

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World Cup Willie

I can't believe you're asserting that the "Toxic Lady" was definitely mass hysteria. There were many experienced nurses who were affected.

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J G

I thought Pope Lick Bridge was in Vatican City

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Jeroen Visser

... you read that wrong (so did I)

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