949 episodes
Skeptoid Brian Dunning
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4.8 • 546 Ratings
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The true science behind our most popular urban legends. Historical mysteries, paranormal claims, popular science myths, aliens and UFO reports, conspiracy theories, and worthless alternative medicine schemes... Skeptoid has you covered. From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred. Weekly since 2006.
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Skeptoid Adventures: Death Valley 2024
Come join the Skeptoid Adventures trip for 2024, a journey of exploration in Death Valley!
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Decoding the Kensington Runestone
The story goes that this stone covered with Viking runes was found in a Minnesota field in 1898. Its true history is much more interesting.
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Snazzy New Store Items
Get the snazzy new Skeptoid Hydro Flask tumbler or radical new Skeptoid coffee mug. Both are engraved so they’ll never fade. Now available at the Skeptoid store at Skeptoid.com.
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COVID-19 and the Lab Leak
Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus of natural origin, or was it engineered in a Chinese research lab?
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Is Recycling for Real?
A close look at where recycling of some common materials is actually at these days.
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Error Erasure Extravaganza
It's time once again for Skeptoid to correct another round of errors in previous shows.
Customer Reviews
A trusted source!
Have been listening to Brian for years and years now. Really well researched articles and a fantastic advocate for the scientific method. Never afraid to correct his own work or to relate new information as it comes to hand, exactly as someone who believes in the truth should. Keep up the great work!
Picking and choosing to suite narrative
I feel like this podcast sometimes picks and choses “facts” to suite its narrative. The Brazilian ufo case all he doing is reading official government reports. Muginio was confused as a space creature? Come on, the girls have no reason to make this up, the picture drawn certainly doesn’t look like a human. Not once in the film is the director suggesting it’s an alien so you are wrong there
Life changing
Listening to Skeptoid changed my life (for the better!) when I started listening about 10 years ago.
After a year or two of listening it had challenged and changed so many beliefs and assumptions I held onto that I started to see the whole world, and my place in it, in a different light.
And it did all this with strong evidence and strong arguments, not waffle and rhetoric and hot air.
I highly, highly recommend it to anyone and everyone on earth.
Keep up the good work, Skeptoid.
Cheers,
Jeremy.