Skeptoid

The age-old debate between which side is responsible for more deaths in history, religion or atheism, is not an argument that either side can ever win. Nor is it a useful tool to analyze the value of religion. Which side is right? Skeptoid's take might surprise you.

Infrared photographs, Kirlian imagery, and the AuraCam 6000 all purport to be able to show a person's mystical aura. Unfortunately, these techniques all have much simpler and more mundane explanations.

When debating, don't allow yourself to be taken in by logical fallacies and argumentative devices that lack merit. Learn these and become handy with them, and you'll be able to easily poke through any bogus arguments thrown your way.

Why aren't supernatural and pseudoscientific phenomena supported by scientific evidence? They can't be, by definition - and so they are often supported by these logical fallacies instead.

The symptoms of electrosensitivity are identical to the symptoms of stress, and although sufferers attribute their condition to the presence of electromagnetic fields, research has shown quite conclusively that the stress is caused only by their perception of electromagnetic fields.

People who sell powdered colostrum, the thick yellow milk produced by mothers around the time of childbirth, believe that it has tremendous health benefits such as immunities and muscle building.

Celebrity endorsers are all over bioidentical hormone therapy, claiming that these plant-based hormones are safer and more effective than the synthetic molecules to which they are chemically bioidentical. Yes, it is is logical absurdity, and no, it isn't true.

When Ann Coulter starts to talk about the origin of species, all she has in her bag of verbal ammunition is a collection of hoary devices such as ad hominem, special pleadings, observational selection, non-sequiturs, slippery slopes, and straw men.

More listener feedback covering the episodes on the Phoenix Lights, 9/11 conspiracy theories, vaccinations causing autism, chiropractic, and lots of other fun episodes.

Despite two centuries of medical science teaching us much about the way human body actually works, some people still prefer to stick with the level of knowledge from ancient times, and still practice phrenology, physiognomy, palmistry, and iridology.

Whole volumes of false history have been woven around Renaissance seer Nostradamus. Nearly everyone knows about his supposed prophecies and predictions, but fewer are aware of the detailed biographies - and it turns out they are all equally false.

Young Earthers only have a limited number of cogent arguments that they use to refute evolution, and they're easily rebutted if you're familiar with them. This episode gives you a good foundation of what to expect to hear, and how to reply to it.

Spring Heeled Jack was a mysterious attacker notorious throughout 19th century England. But is it possible that he was simply the same character as the Monkey Man that frightened New Delhi in 2001? That characater being a figment of mass imagination?

It's commonly accepted that the advertising industry systematically manipulates the public with subliminal advertising. The perception is based on a famous experiment ... that was a complete hoax.

Ever since Doug Bower and Dave Chorley showed the world how easy it is for people to make even the most complex crop circle patterns, people have been making them by the thousand. And yet, a small but vocal group still maintains that all crop circles - even those made by hoaxers - have paranormal explanations that are physically measurable.