Separating Reality from Bullshit, Information from Misinformation: UFOs, conspiracy theories, alternative medicine scams, and all the other crap out there we must be wary of
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First movie production Zoom update!
Here's what we did at last night's Zoom for donors to Alien Echoes.
As you may know, I’m currently in production on Skeptoid Media’s third full-length feature documentary film — Alien Echoes. The film is funded by private grants and donati...
Backrooms, Obsession, and Bill Nye the Science Guy
Screencap from Obsession (2025, Blumhouse)
I happen to be among those who believe that having a population sufficiently scientifically literate to discern what’s real from what’s not is among the most important challenges we face as a spec...
Borley Rectory: When fiction becomes immoral
We all love a good story based in folklore. But when you dishonestly pitch it as real, you've crossed a line.
I’ve talked about Danny Robins’s BBC podcast Uncanny on my own podcast, Skeptoid, a couple of times — most recently a long-form c...
How to drink disgusting yellow colostrum
I last did a Skeptoid episode on the fad of drinking colostrum in 2007 — that’s 19 years ago for those of you avoiding doing your own math. At the time, the fad was fading — the product was expensive, sometimes hard to find, and entirely wo...
What are the chances of the Knicks' comeback win over the Spurs?
Once they took the lead, were they really almost certain to win the game?
It goes without saying that sports prediction is a field rife with woo. Much of that woo looks like math and data. There’s also a lot of math and data that isn’t woo...
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