Podcast Episodes

Are You Following a Crank?

Episode 581

Let's have a look at the traits that define a crank, to make sure your new hero isn't one.

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9 years, 2 months ago

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Amelia Earhart Redux: Competing Networks, Competing Craziness

Episode 580

Through their constant promotion of false history, TV networks may have done Amelia Earhart's legacy irreparable harm.

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9 years, 3 months ago

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Measuring the Age of the Grand Canyon

Episode 579

The Grand Canyon is millions of years old, not thousands; despite the efforts of Young Earthers.

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9 years, 3 months ago

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Student Questions: Bitters, Gas, and Diet Woo

Episode 578

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.

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9 years, 3 months ago

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What Are the Chances You're Psychic?

Episode 577

We analyze some of your stories of precognitive experiences.

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9 years, 3 months ago

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Lights in the Sky

Episode 576

How likely is the most common type of UFO report to be an alien spacecraft?

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9 years, 4 months ago

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How to Surprise a Skeptical Podcaster: Part 2

Episode 575

Here are the podcast episodes with conclusions that surprised me the most (part 2).

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9 years, 4 months ago

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How to Surprise a Skeptical Podcaster: Part 1

Episode 574

Here are the podcast episodes with conclusions that surprised me the most (part 1).

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9 years, 4 months ago

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There Is No Finland: Birth of a Conspiracy Theory

Episode 573

A study of how a conspiracy theory as absurd as "There is no Finland" can even exist.

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9 years, 4 months ago

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True or False Pregnancy

Episode 572

False pregnancies are not only real, they're probably more complex than you imagined.

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9 years, 5 months ago

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