Skeptoid

Will McCandless

A weekly look at the true facts behind urban legends and stories you've probably heard.

  • 19 minutes 50 seconds
    Skeptoid #956: 18 for 18

    Highlights from 18 years of the Skeptoid podcast.

    1 October 2024, 9:00 am
  • 21 minutes 24 seconds
    Skeptoid #955: Pop Quiz: Astonishing Aviation Tales

    Fifteen trivia questions from previous aviation themed episodes of Skeptoid.

    24 September 2024, 9:00 am
  • 15 minutes 46 seconds
    Skeptoid #954: 15 Sleep Myths

    15 popular myths about sleeping, debunked.

    17 September 2024, 9:00 am
  • 1 minute 46 seconds
    Skeptoid Flash Mob at CSICon 2024

    Join the Skeptoid Flash Mob at CSICon 2024 in Las Vegas. Visit skeptoid.com/store to get your shirts.

    11 September 2024, 9:00 am
  • 16 minutes 7 seconds
    Skeptoid #953: Pet Pheromone Products

    Lots of companies sell pheromone products claiming to calm down your dog or cat, but there's a very big problem with that basic claim.

    10 September 2024, 9:00 am
  • 15 minutes 32 seconds
    Skeptoid #952: Finding Slumach's Gold

    Is this just another in a long line of legendary lost mines that never produced a speck of gold, or is there more to it this time?

    3 September 2024, 9:00 am
  • 16 minutes 42 seconds
    Skeptoid #951: Dying of Excited Delirium

    Turns out that the cause of death known as excited delirium is not an actual cause of death at all.

    27 August 2024, 9:00 am
  • 6 minutes 37 seconds
    Skeptoid #950: A Modern Skeptic Podcast Host

    If I were to summarize how and why I do what I do, I might put it this way.

    20 August 2024, 9:00 am
  • 15 minutes 13 seconds
    Skeptoid #949: Hunting the Graveyard of the Elephants

    Does a mythical place where the elephants go to die actually exist?

    13 August 2024, 9:00 am
  • 14 minutes 26 seconds
    Skeptoid #948: Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

    The claim that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US has never been close to true.

    6 August 2024, 9:00 am
  • 17 minutes 7 seconds
    Skeptoid #947: How Your Driving Is Being Tracked

    Is your phone really tracking your driving habits and selling the data? Maybe more so than you know.

    30 July 2024, 9:00 am
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