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Listener Feedback 6: I Want to Believe
Episode 141
More fun from the listener feedback files.
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The Bosnian Pyramids
Episode 140
Belief that this hill in Bosnia is an ancient pyramid is driven by New Age woo and pathological science.
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Alkaline Water Systems: Change Your Water, Change Your Bank Balance
Episode 139
Sellers of new-age water treatment products charge outrageous prices for a product with zero plausibility.
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Is He Real, or Is He Fictional?
Episode 138
Guess whether these popular characters from history were real or fictional.
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The Angel of Mons
Episode 137
The facts behind the story that a heavenly host saved a small group of British from a large German force in WWI.
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Student Questions: Light Therapy, the Bermuda Triangle, and Isaac Newton
Episode 136
Skeptoid answers another round of questions submitted by students.
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The Rendlesham Forest UFO
Episode 135
Hard to believe, but it wasn't space aliens that caused blinking lights in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.
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Who Is Closed Minded, the Skeptic or the Believer?
Episode 134
Skeptics and believers both tend to accuse each other of closed-mindedness in their thinking.
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Chasing the Min Min Light
Episode 133
The Australian outback's mysterious jack o' lantern has sparked some good stories, but some even better science.
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The Sargasso Sea and the Pacific Garbage Patch
Episode 132
We cast our skeptical eye upon two vast hazards to navigation said to lurk in the centers of the two great oceans.
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