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Bad Skepticism: Why You Should Challenge Popular Assumptions
Episode 506
From swamp gas and waterspouts to alternative medicine, the harm of not challenging popular assumptions.
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You've Got to Be Wrong to Be Right
Episode 505
Skeptoid corrects another round of errors from past episodes.
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Growing Skeptical of Hair Restoration
Episode 504
As long as people lose their hair, the market will remain flooded with sham remedies.
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Bad Science on PBS
Episode 503
The reasons why PBS is so quick to promote pseudoscience informercials during pledge drives.
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Listener Feedback: Killing the Comments
Episode 502
Your comments on our decision to remove the comments from Skeptoid episode transcript pages.
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Schrodinger's Cat and the Bomb Detector
Episode 501
Whatever you think you know about Schrödinger's famous cat is probably wrong.
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A Little Curiosity
Episode 500
If you haven't yet found your curiosity in the first 500 episodes of Skeptoid, find it here.
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The Hope Diamond: A Curse Deconstructed
Episode 499
Find out how the obviously false story of a curse came to be associated with this famous diamond.
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Did the 1914 Christmas Truce Really Happen?
Episode 498
Popular stories tell of WWI soldiers laying aside their rifles on Christmas 1914. The facts are not quite so simple.
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A Skeptical Look at the Rorschach Test
Episode 497
The famous Rorschach inkblot test is not a window into the subconscious, and doesn't tell us anything useful.
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