Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena

Skeptoid #261: Near Death Experiences

A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports ...

A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife.

Skeptoid #260: Military Dolphins: James Bonds of the Sea

Are dolphins actually trained to attack divers and place limpet ...

Are dolphins actually trained to attack divers and place limpet mines on ships?

Skeptoid #259: Mao's Barefoot Doctors: The Secret History of Chinese Medicine

Westerners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine ...

Westerners' belief that Chinese have long relied on alternative medicine is due in part to being duped by book publishers.

Skeptoid #258: Spontaneous Human Combustion

People can catch on fire... but can it really happen ...

People can catch on fire... but can it really happen when there is no external source of ignition?

Skeptoid #257: The Secret of Plum Island

Does this secret government lab really create genetic mutants and ...

Does this secret government lab really create genetic mutants and biological weapons?

Skeptoid #256: Student Questions: Supermoons and an Apple a Day

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students ...

Skeptoid answers another round of questions sent in by students from around the world.

Skeptoid #255: Superhuman Strength during a Crisis

Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. ...

Popular stories tell of mothers lifting cars off their children. Can the human body really do such feats?

Skeptoid #254: Finding the POW/MIAs

Are American POW/MIAs still being held captive inside Vietnam?

Skeptoid #253: The Port Arthur Massacre

Was a 1996 mass murder in Tasmania secretly a plot ...

Was a 1996 mass murder in Tasmania secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned?

Skeptoid #252: The Voynich Manuscript

The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered ...

The true history and meaning of history's most famous undeciphered book.