Skeptoid Podcast Archives

Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena is a weekly pro-science, anti-pseudoscience podcast. It was born in October, 2006 to help fight the good fight against the overwhelming majority of noise in the media supporting useless alternative medicine systems, psychics preying upon the vulnerable, the erosion of science education in the classroom, xenophobia of advanced energy and food production methods, and generally anything that distracts attention and public funding from scientific advancement.

Skeptoid generally examines four basic types of popular pseudosciences:

* Consumer frauds, like magic jewelry and free energy
* Urban legends, like the Amityville Horror or the Philadelphia Experiment
* Useless alternative medicine schemes, like detoxification and reflexology
* Conspiracy theories, like chemtrails or 9/11 "truth" theories

Each weekly episode focuses on a single phenomenon — an urban legend, a paranormal claim, alternative therapy, or something just plain stupid — that you've heard of, and that you probably believe in. Skeptoid attempts to expose the folly of belief in non-evidence based phenomena, and more importantly, explains the factual scientific reality.

From the sublime to the startling, no topic is sacred, politically incorrect though that may be.