Skeptoid Episode Guide - Conspiracy Theories Australia Doesn't Exist, and Other Geographic Conspiracy Theories (Skeptoid #745) - The belief that Australia doesn't exist may not be as unique as you think.

September 15, 2020

Read | Listen (13:02) The QAnon Conspiracy (Skeptoid #738) - This growing conspiracy theory posits that a global cabal of pedophiles secretly controls the US government.

July 28, 2020

Read | Listen (14:49) Bill Gates Conspiracy Theories (Skeptoid #735) - Why is the world's greatest public health philanthropist charged with crimes against humanity?

July 7, 2020

Read | Listen (14:19) The LUCIFER Telescope Conspiracy (Skeptoid #729) - A popular conspiracy theory claims the Vatican uses a telescope named LUCIFER to find an alien savior.

May 26, 2020

Read | Listen (14:09) Draining the Holy Grail (Skeptoid #723) - The true history of the Holy Grail, the most precious of all artifacts.

April 14, 2020

Read | Listen (14:26) Pandemic Conspiracies and Politics (Skeptoid #722) - How the conspiracy theories around today's pandemic compare to those of the past.

April 7, 2020

Read | Listen (13:56) On the Trail of Red Mercury (Skeptoid #713) - The most elusive substance in pop culture also purports to be one of the most destructive.

February 4, 2020

Read | Listen (14:04) Reactionless Space Drives (Skeptoid #697) - Conspiracy theorists and alternate science believers continue to claim triumph over the laws of nature.

October 15, 2019

Read | Listen (12:45) Starlite, the Magical Mystery Material (Skeptoid #684) - The real reasons for the disappearance of this amateur material said to be able to withstand even a nuclear blast.

July 16, 2019

Read | Listen (15:00) Yamashita's Gold (Skeptoid #673) - The facts behind the urban legend that billions in Japanese gold lie buried in the Philippines.

April 30, 2019

Read | Listen (13:48) Killing Castro (Skeptoid #659) - It's proven the CIA tried to assassinate Castro, but the number of claimed attempts differs wildly.

January 22, 2019

Read | Listen (14:20) Illuminating the Illuminati (Skeptoid #657) - The surprisingly humble beginnings and even more surprising modern rebirth of the Illuminati.

January 8, 2019

Read | Listen (14:54) The Electric Universe Theory (Skeptoid #651) - Some believe that everything we know about the universe is wrong — and it's all electric.

November 27, 2018

Read | Listen (14:38) George Soros Conspiracy Theories (Skeptoid #649) - George Soros remains the focus of many anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

November 13, 2018

Read | Listen (14:02) Parts Unknown: Foreign Conspiracy Theories (Skeptoid #644) - A roundup of conspiracy theories from various countries all around the world.

October 9, 2018

Read | Listen (14:38) Titanic Myths (Skeptoid #615) - Three of the most popular conspiracy theories surrounding the sinking of the Titanic.

March 20, 2018

Read | Listen (14:14) Net Neutrality Reexamined (Skeptoid #604) - A skeptic's guide for organizing the issues raised by Net Neutrality.

January 2, 2018

Read | Listen (15:44) Sonic Weapons in Cuba (Skeptoid #603) - There is a much better explanation than sonic weapons for reported attacks against US diplomats in Cuba.

December 26, 2017

Read | Listen (13:54) Chasing Malaysian Airlines MH370 (Skeptoid #595) - A roundup of the conspiracy theories and the probable true fate of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370.

October 31, 2017

Read | Listen (13:46) The Big Pharma Conspiracy (Skeptoid #589) - Popular claims of a Big Pharma Conspiracy don't stand up to any rational scrutiny.

September 19, 2017

Read | Listen (12:51) There Is No Finland: Birth of a Conspiracy Theory (Skeptoid #573) - A study of how a conspiracy theory as absurd as "There is no Finland" can even exist.

May 30, 2017

Read | Listen (13:27) Hitler's Antarctic Fortress Unmasked (Skeptoid #559) - Deconstructing a wild tale about a Nazi military base deep inside Antarctica.

February 21, 2017

Read | Listen (13:58) Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 3 (Skeptoid #537) - The hard, testable, scientific proof that we actually did land humans on the moon.

September 20, 2016

Read | Listen (12:36) Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 2 (Skeptoid #536) - The science behind many of the specific claims made by Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theorists.

September 13, 2016

Read | Listen (12:21) Debunking the Moon Truthers, Part 1 (Skeptoid #535) - The history of the Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theory, and those who believe in it.

September 6, 2016

Read | Listen (12:19) Autopsy: The Clinton Body Count (Skeptoid #525) - The surprising origins of the claim that the Clintons kill any who get in their way.

June 28, 2016

Read | Listen (12:47) The New Flat Earthers (Skeptoid #521) - The reinvented Flat Earth fad is less about geology and more about conspiracy mongering.

May 31, 2016

Read | Listen (12:50) Firestorm in Waco (Skeptoid #511) - The FBI did not deliberately murder the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

March 22, 2016

Read | Listen (14:10) Updated: Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Web Sites (Skeptoid #495) - The worst offending sites on the Internet for promoting bad misinformation.

December 1, 2015

Read | Listen (14:37) Holocaust Denial (Skeptoid #485) - Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it.

September 22, 2015

Read | Listen (12:54) Jade Helm 15 (Skeptoid #469) - Conspiracy theory that a military training exercise is going to lead to martial law.

June 2, 2015

Read | Listen (14:00) Agenda 21 (Skeptoid #465) - A look at the conspiratorial hysteria and sensationalism surrounding the United Nations' Agenda 21.

May 5, 2015

Read | Listen (13:15) Satanic Ritual Abuse (Skeptoid #462) - The history of claims that secret Satanic cults are abusing children.

April 14, 2015

Read | Listen (17:02) Myths of Alcatraz (Skeptoid #444) - Alcatraz Island is veiled in the fog of myth.

December 9, 2014

Read | Listen (14:57) 5 Conspiracy Theories that Turned Out to Be True... Maybe? (Skeptoid #416) - Skeptoid listeners are always asking for conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Here are the best I found.

May 27, 2014

Read | Listen (14:04) Killing Princess Diana (Skeptoid #414) - Some say the death of Princess Diana in 1997 was actually a murder plotted by her government.

May 13, 2014

Read | Listen (12:39) The Death of Mad King Ludwig (Skeptoid #407) - What we do and do not know about the mysterious death of Bavaria's Mad King who built castles like Neuschwanstein.

March 25, 2014

Read | Listen (11:49) Hemp, Hearst, and Prohibition (Skeptoid #401) - A popular urban legend claims that William Randolph Hearst conspired to make cannabis illegal in the United States.

February 11, 2014

Read | Listen (12:36) 8 Secret Bases: Real or Fictional? (Skeptoid #391) - Guess which of these secret military bases around the world are real.

December 3, 2013

Read | Listen (13:06) The JFK Assassination (Skeptoid #389) - After so many decades, the number of incompatible conspiracy theories about the death of JFK continues to grow.

November 19, 2013

Read | Listen (12:48) The Secrets of MKULTRA (Skeptoid #373) - The urban legend that the CIA conducted unethical mind control experiments has a grain of truth.

July 30, 2013

Read | Listen (12:50) Listener Feedback: Conspiracies (Skeptoid #364) - Skeptoid answers questions sent in by listeners pertaining to conspiracy theories.

May 28, 2013

Read | Listen (12:56) Polybius: Video Game of Death (Skeptoid #362) - The infamous arcade game Polybius, said to drive players to suicide or madness, was never more than an urban legend.

May 14, 2013

Read | Listen (11:27) The Airplane that Wasn't There (Skeptoid #355) - A B-25 bomber ditched in a Pennsylvania river in broad daylight 1956 and, seemingly impossibly, was never found.

March 26, 2013

Read | Listen (13:27) The Pentagon and the Missile (Skeptoid #354) - Some say that it wasn't an airliner that struck the Pentagon on 9/11, but a missile.

March 19, 2013

Read | Listen (12:42) Pope Joan (Skeptoid #353) - This apocryphal Middle Ages pope said to be a woman in disguise probably never existed.

March 12, 2013

Read | Listen (12:42) Men in Black (Skeptoid #351) - A look at the mysterious government agents said to intimidate those who witness flying saucers.

February 26, 2013

Read | Listen (13:46) Trinity: Interview with Dr. Oz, Alex Jones, and Deepak Chopra (Skeptoid #350) - Skeptoid interviews three of the most popular and controversial figures in modern pseudoscience.

February 19, 2013

Read | Listen (6:18) The Cult of Nikola Tesla (Skeptoid #345) - The name of Nikola Tesla is associated with crazy conspiracy claims that have nothing to do with his real work.

January 15, 2013

Read | Listen (14:52) The Hollow Earth Theory (Skeptoid #343) - Throughout history there have been a number of different beliefs that the Earth might be hollow.

January 1, 2013

Read | Listen (13:00) Free Energy Machines (Skeptoid #341) - Someone somewhere is always claiming to have cracked the secret of free energy forever, no fuel needed.

December 18, 2012

Read | Listen (12:39) Listener Feedback: A Cacophony of Conspiracies (Skeptoid #340) - How you can convince your friends that their conspiracy theories are nonsensical.

December 11, 2012

Read | Listen (10:58) The Flat Earth Theory (Skeptoid #338) - The Flat Earth Theory has its origins not in alt-science but in Christian Fundamentalism.

November 27, 2012

Read | Listen (12:41) The Phantom Time Hypothesis (Skeptoid #332) - A number of theories claim that several centuries never actually happened, and were faked by the Church.

October 16, 2012

Read | Listen (13:17) Attack of the Nanobots! (Skeptoid #317) - A look at the belief that nanotechnology may result in an army of self-replicating machines that consume society.

July 3, 2012

Read | Listen (13:34) Deconstructing the Rothschild Conspiracy (Skeptoid #311) - Some believe that world governments and economies are secretly controlled by the Rothschild banking family.

May 22, 2012

Read | Listen (14:40) Finding Amelia Earhart (Skeptoid #295) - The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is one of the worst examples of television promoting pseudohistory.

January 31, 2012

Read | Listen (13:05) Wunderwaffen: Nazi Wonder Weapons (Skeptoid #293) - The true history behind the claimed Nazi "wonder weapons" like anti-gravity flying saucers.

January 17, 2012

Read | Listen (13:48) Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites (Skeptoid #283) - My list of the worst offenders on the web in the promotion of scientific and factual misinformation.

November 8, 2011

Read | Listen (14:50) Finding Shakespeare (Skeptoid #280) - The claim that someone else wrote Shakespeare's works is popular, but virtually indefensible.

October 18, 2011

Read | Listen (12:25) The Zionist Conspiracy (Skeptoid #271) - There is no plausible reason to think a conspiracy of Jews plans to take over the world's banks and governments.

August 16, 2011

Read | Listen (12:47) Conspiracy Theorists Aren't Crazy (Skeptoid #264) - We usually dismiss conspiracy theorists as crazy people; but that doesn't tell the whole story.

June 28, 2011

Read | Listen (11:52) Military Dolphins: James Bonds of the Sea (Skeptoid #260) - The facts behind the stories of military dolphins trained to attack divers and plant mines on ships.

May 31, 2011

Read | Listen (12:14) The Secret of Plum Island (Skeptoid #257) - This secret government lab was said to create genetic mutants. Here's what they actually did.

May 10, 2011

Read | Listen (12:26) Finding the POW/MIAs (Skeptoid #254) - American POW/MIAs are probably not still being held captive inside Vietnam.

April 19, 2011

Read | Listen (12:50) The Port Arthur Massacre (Skeptoid #253) - The 1996 mass murder in Tasmania was not secretly a plot by the government to get firearms banned.

April 12, 2011

Read | Listen (12:09) The History of Knowledge (Skeptoid #250) - A trip through the centuries to see how human knowledge is reflected through music.

March 22, 2011

Read | Listen (11:33) Beware the Bilderberg Group! (Skeptoid #225) - The annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group is not to plan global domination.

September 28, 2010

Read | Listen (11:56) Stalin's Human-Ape Hybrids (Skeptoid #219) - Josef Stalin did not order the creation of an army of half-ape, half-human hybrids.

August 17, 2010

Read | Listen (13:14) The Astronauts and the Aliens (Skeptoid #218) - A close look at some of the stories of UFOs said to have been reported by NASA astronauts.

August 10, 2010

Read | Listen (12:53) Attack on Pearl Harbor (Skeptoid #211) - The American government did not have advance knowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and did not allow it to happen.

June 22, 2010

Read | Listen (13:29) The North American Union (Skeptoid #210) - The United States, Canada, and Mexico are not planning to merge into a single huge police state.

June 15, 2010

Read | Listen (12:52) The Westall '66 UFO (Skeptoid #208) - 200 students watched a strange craft fly near their school in Australia in 1966 -- or so the story goes.

June 1, 2010

Read | Listen (14:35) Morgellons Disease (Skeptoid #206) - In this newly described condition, some patients report strange plastic fibers growing from their skin.

May 18, 2010

Read | Listen (11:57) The Georgia Guidestones (Skeptoid #198) - Dubbed "America's Stonehenge", this granite monument in Georgia appeals to all sorts of conspiracy theorists.

March 23, 2010

Read | Listen (12:33) Zeitgeist: The Movie, Myths, and Motivations (Skeptoid #196) - The Internet movie Zeitgeist uses dishonesty to make an ideological point that could have easily been made ethically.

March 9, 2010

Read | Listen (12:08) The Denver Airport Conspiracy (Skeptoid #194) - Is the Denver International Airport a headquarters for the New World Order? (Hint: no)

February 23, 2010

Read | Listen (14:25) The Bell Island Boom (Skeptoid #190) - This shattering boom in Newfoundland was more likely a natural phenomenon than a superweapon test.

January 26, 2010

Read | Listen (12:02) Vaccine Ingredients (Skeptoid #180) - The claims made about the dangerous chemicals in vaccines are all either false or misrepresented.

November 17, 2009

Read | Listen (12:50) Screwed! (Skeptoid #150) - A secret recording of an actual meeting of the Illuminati.

April 21, 2009

Read | Listen (9:40) FEMA Prison Camps (Skeptoid #145) - A skeptical look at the claim that FEMA maintains a network of prison camps in readiness.

March 17, 2009

Read | Listen (11:50) The Lucifer Project (Skeptoid #143) - Some believe that NASA is trying to turn Saturn or Jupiter into a small sun.

March 3, 2009

Read | Listen (12:33) The Rendlesham Forest UFO (Skeptoid #135) - Hard to believe, but it wasn't space aliens that caused blinking lights in Rendlesham Forest in 1980.

January 6, 2009

Read | Listen (16:08) The Bohemian Club Conspiracy (Skeptoid #131) - Wealthy and powerful men gather annually at the mysterious Bohemian Grove -- but not to plot global domination.

December 9, 2008

Read | Listen (12:56) The Truth about Aspartame (Skeptoid #127) - The artificial sweetener aspartame is falsely accused of being the cause of nearly every disease.

November 11, 2008

Read | Listen (12:29) Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience (Skeptoid #125) - A critical look at the pseudoscientific antics of some of today's celebrities.

October 28, 2008

Read | Listen (13:30) HAARP Myths (Skeptoid #122) - A close look at HAARP, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, and the claim that it's a superweapon.

October 7, 2008

Read | Listen (12:59) Search for the Missing Cosmonauts (Skeptoid #115) - A pair of young Italian brothers probably didn't uncover evidence of Soviet cosmonauts dying in space.

August 19, 2008

Read | Listen (13:38) Spy Radio: Numbers Stations (Skeptoid #107) - A look at mysterious shortwave "numbers stations" around the world.

July 1, 2008

Read | Listen (10:28) When People Talk Backwards (Skeptoid #105) - Some people believe that your brain encodes its actual meaning in reverse within everything you say.

June 17, 2008

Read | Listen (11:10) Reassembling TWA Flight 800 (Skeptoid #99) - TWA Flight 800 was not shot down by US friendly fire.

May 6, 2008

Read | Listen (11:22) World Trade Center 7: The Lies Come Crashing Down (Skeptoid #85) - The collapse of 7 World Trade Center was not a controlled demolition.

January 29, 2008

Read | Listen (10:17) Aliens in Roswell (Skeptoid #79) - Pop culture says it was an alien spaceship -- but history tells us what was really found in the New Mexico desert.

December 18, 2007

Read | Listen (12:48) Irradiation: Is Your Food Toxic? (Skeptoid #61) - Food that has been sterilized with irradiation is not radioactive and will not hurt you.

August 14, 2007

Read | Listen (8:32) All About Fluoridation (Skeptoid #58) - A few fringe activists claim that fluoridation of water carries more danger than benefit.

July 30, 2007

Read | Listen (9:20) The Twin Towers: Fire Melting Steel (Skeptoid #54) - The Oakland freeway collapse was not a government ploy to prove that the Twin Towers collapsed from fire.

July 10, 2007

Read | Listen (9:35) Support Your Local Reptoid (Skeptoid #46) - The conspiracy theory that reptilian beings control our governments has a fascinating history.

May 21, 2007

Read | Listen (9:52) The Alien Invasion of Phoenix, Arizona (Skeptoid #41) - Despite what many UFOlogists want, the famous Phoenix Lights were not alien spacecraft.

April 26, 2007

Read | Listen (11:25) Blood for Oil (Skeptoid #32) - The claim that the wars in the Middle East were about oil don't stand up to economic scrutiny.

March 12, 2007

Read | Listen (8:23) Chemtrails: Real or Not? (Skeptoid #27) - Some believe that airplane contrails are really dangerous chemicals being sprayed by the government.

February 15, 2007

Read | Listen (9:06) Skepticism and Flight 93 (Skeptoid #22) - Flight 93, which crashed in a field on September 11, was not shot down by the military.

January 19, 2007

Read | Listen (8:13) The Real Philadelphia Experiment (Skeptoid #16) - The US Navy did not make a warship completely disappear in 1943.

December 24, 2006

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