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Lie Detection
Episode 422
Polygraphs are no better than a roll of the dice at determining whether you're lying.
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Listeners Have a Say
Giving the Skeptoid listeners a chance to have their say.
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Student Questions: Internet Tracking and Plasma Cosmology
Episode 421
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students all around the world.
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Hillary vs. Mallory: The First to Everest
Episode 420
From the evidence we have, it seems clear there's no way Mallory could have beaten Hillary to the summit of Everest.
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Slacktivism: Raising Awareness
Episode 419
Clicking a "Like" button on a web site is not only useless, it may actually be counterproductive.
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Left Brained, Right Brained, or Hare Brained?
Episode 418
Pop psychology tells us we're all either left brain or right brain dominant, a concept with no scientific support.
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The Riddle of Flight 19
Episode 417
The 1945 disappearance of five fighter planes in the Bermuda Triangle was real, but hardly how it's portrayed.
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5 Conspiracy Theories that Turned Out to Be True... Maybe?
Episode 416
Skeptoid listeners are always asking for conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Here are the best I found.
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In Which I Am the Very Picture of Error Personified
Episode 415
Skeptoid corrects another round of mistakes made in previous episodes.
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Killing Princess Diana
Episode 414
Some say the death of Princess Diana in 1997 was actually a murder plotted by her government.
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