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Skeptoid #377: Student Questions: Hangovers, Manuka Honey, and Probiotics 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Skeptoid answers student questions about hangovers, horse milk and manuka honey as miracle cures, car batteries stored on cement, translatability of ancient texts, and probiotics.
Skeptoid 5 Kickstarter Announcement 22 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Skeptoid 5: Massacres, Monsters, and Miracles is a collection of 50 of the best episodes of the Skeptoid podcast, adapted for print. It will be fully indexed and referenced. But most of all, each of i...
Skeptoid #376: Salt Therapies 20 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Salt therapy is being touted as a new miracle treatment for just about anything. You relax in a cave made of salt and breathe salt dust. Why?
Skeptoid #375: The Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot Film 13 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
The famous 1967 Bigfoot film by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin was certainly the launch of the legend, but where did the film actually come from?
Skeptoid #374: Listener Feedback: Alternative Medicine 6 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Few pseudosciences are believed as fervently by their proponents as alternative medicine. Today we answer some emails from alt-med proponents.
Skeptoid #373: The Secrets of MKULTRA 30 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
During the cold war, rumor has it that the American CIA conducted 20 years of illegal research on American citizens without their knowledge. How much truth is there to this?
Skeptoid #372: Prove Your Supernatural Power and Get Rich 23 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
If you can demonstrate that you have a power unknown to science under controlled conditions, there are many groups willing to pay you for the proof.
Skeptoid #371: The Vanishing Village of Angikuni Lake 16 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Old stories claim that a remote village of Eskimos disppeared in 1930, leaving everything behind. Some claim the people were all abducted by aliens.
Skeptoid #370: The Science of Muzak 9 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Muzak has long been played to improve sales and increase worker productivity. But what can it really do under the microscope of science?
Skeptoid #369: Student Questions: Magic Wristbands, Laser Danger, and ManBearPig 2 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
We to explore the question of whether Stanley Kubrick made The Shining as a confession that he was behind the alleged moon landing hoax; whether acupressure wristbands are a way to cure nausea or just...
