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Stories of a lethally hot storm wind in Santa Barbara in 1859 persist to this day. But with modern weather data, can we paint a more accurate picture?

A very popular format for addiction treatment is the twelve step program, which buries treatment under thick layers of religious practice.

Whether it's the polygraph machines of the past or the brain imaging technologies of the future, lie detection has always been clouded with doubt.

A few Skeptoid supporters tell you exactly why they support the Skeptoid podcast, keeping it alive and making it available to you and to the world.

Skeptoid answers questions from students about hCG diet supplements, internet tracker blocking extensions, ear candling, antibacterial cleansers, and plasma cosmology.

Rumors abound that in 1924, George Mallory beat Sir Edmund Hillary to the summit of Mount Everest, and the record for first ascent should be his.

The Internet is full of ways to make us feel good - click a Like button, sign on online petition. But does any of it actually do any good?

Pop psychology tells us we're all either left brain dominant or right brain dominant. But is there any science to back this up, or is it nonsense?

Some say these five aircraft that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945 fell victim to a mysterious force; others find a more prosaic explanation.

Skeptoid listeners are always asking for conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Here's the best I could come up with. They're hard to find!

I try to correct as many errors as can be caught in previous Skeptoid episodes. This is another round of corrections, from which we can learn even more.

Some say the death of Princess Diana in 1997 was actually a murder plotted by her government. How good is the evidence supporting this?

This mysterious code representing Montana vigilante justice has a meaning lost to history, but many have proposed various explanations.

Many animals are presented through the popular media as being possessed of psychic powers, and able to predict events. Is this really the best explanation?

We are constantly bombarded with marketing messages and New Age claims asserting that your body has an energy field. Is this a real thing, or made-up nonsense?