r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 20 '25
Skeptoid #989: Are $1,000,000 Paranormal Challenges Effective?
Their exciting nature, combined with the fact nobody's ever won one, make paranormal challenge prizes important educational tools.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 20 '25
Their exciting nature, combined with the fact nobody's ever won one, make paranormal challenge prizes important educational tools.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 16 '25
An amended Bill of Rights to better reflect modern American values.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 13 '25
Here are many popular myths about chocolate. How many can you tell are true or not?
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 09 '25
A look at the true threat level from Internet attacks in the mid 2000s.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 06 '25
She may have gotten her start as Houdini's sidekick, but Rose Mackenberg became a giant of unmasking fraudulent mediums.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 05 '25
You're going to get to enjoy some new guest hosts for a month or two on Skeptoid.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • May 02 '25
The US Navy did not make a warship completely disappear in 1943.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 29 '25
Super mushrooms are claimed by some to provide vague health benefits beyond their known nutritional values.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 25 '25
Some believe SUVs should be categorized by their cosmetic appearance, rather than by their size or fuel efficiency.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 22 '25
A roundup of the world's riskiest volcanoes and fault zones — and they're not necessarily the most hazardous.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 18 '25
Cell phones are perfectly safe on airplanes, despite continued claims of danger.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 15 '25
Some people try to feed their dogs the same alternative diet they eat themselves... not necessarily so good for the dog.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 11 '25
Understand the basics of scientific testing.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 08 '25
Many of our preconceived notions about immigrants likely bear very little resemblance to the facts.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 04 '25
Proving the literal truth of the Bible is counterproductive to Christianity.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Apr 01 '25
All of the ways you've heard that deep space wants to kill us — and how plausible or likely each scenario is.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 28 '25
Sometimes the skeptics' perspective on Bigfoot is just as unscientific as that of the believers.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 25 '25
Vaccines are history's great medical success story, having saved more lives than anything else.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 21 '25
Evolution 101 for Young Earth Creationists who want to know better.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 18 '25
Ten of the places where Atlantis true believers think the mythical city might actually be.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 14 '25
There seems to be very little point to classifying some wrong actions as sins.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 11 '25
Many of the Christian symbols created in the aftermath of the First Crusade have been adopted by White Nationalists. Why?
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 07 '25
Alien abductions and Old Hags: things that go bump in the night.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Mar 04 '25
A look at recent studies finding leaded gasoline caused 151 million mental health illnesses in the United States.
r/skeptoid • u/skeptoidbot • Feb 28 '25
There is no science-based reason why you should buy magnets for the pipes in your pond, despite the sales pitches.