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Near Death Experiences
Episode 261
A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife.
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Military Dolphins: James Bonds of the Sea
Episode 260
The facts behind the stories of military dolphins trained to attack divers and plant mines on ships.
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Mao's Barefoot Doctors: The Secret History of Chinese Medicine
Episode 259
Westerners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine is due in part to clever book publishers.
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Spontaneous Human Combustion
Episode 258
People can catch on fire… and there doesn't seem to be anything too mysterious about any given case.
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The Secret of Plum Island
Episode 257
This secret government lab was said to create genetic mutants. Here's what they actually did.
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Student Questions: Supermoons and an Apple a Day
Episode 256
Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students from around the world.
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Superhuman Strength during a Crisis
Episode 255
Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. The science behind it is less than compelling.
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Finding the POW/MIAs
Episode 254
American POW/MIAs are probably not still being held captive inside Vietnam.
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The Port Arthur Massacre
Episode 253
The 1996 mass murder in Tasmania was not secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned.
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The Voynich Manuscript
Episode 252
The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book.
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