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Climate Update 2026
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1066, November 10, 2026
Checking in on how we're doing with major weather events attributed to human-caused climate change.
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 | Poisoned Halloween Candy
Episode 1064, October 27, 2026
Are all those stories you heard about razor blades hidden in Halloween candy true, or just more urban legends?
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 | The Floating Mob Bodies of Lake Mead
Episode 1062, October 13, 2026
Las Vegas mob lore clings thick to human remains found as Lake Mead's water level recedes. But is it truly mob secrets that are being revealed or perhaps something a bit more nuanced?
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 | Hunting the Pictish Beast
Episode 1061, October 6, 2026
Did this mysterious carved beast — the most common object on the Pictish standing stones — ever actually live?
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 | Do You Have Cortisol Belly?
Episode 1059, September 22, 2026
Wellness influencers promise to sell you supplements to reduce your cortisol, and thus reduce your weight — even though it doesn't work that way.
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 | The 1973 Mansfield UFO Encounter
Episode 1057, September 8, 2026
Four men in an Air National Guard helicopter had a terrifying UFO encounter in the skies above Ohio.
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 | Let Yourself Get Scammed
Episode 1054, August 18, 2026
It turns out that having zero fraud in society is not necessarily a goal that would serve the general good. Why not?
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 | Recovered Memory Therapy
Episode 1053, August 11, 2026
Some say you might have repressed memories that you know nothing about — but that might be discovered and recovered therapeutically. Is this a real thing?
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 | Is CERN Altering Reality?
Episode 1052, August 4, 2026
What's really behind CERN's Large Hadron Collider's third planned shutdown?
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 | The Humble Pie Report
Episode 1051, July 28, 2026
Once again, we issue your corrections to errors made in previous Skeptoid episodes.
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 | Does Torture Work?
Episode 1050, July 21, 2026
The question of whether torture is ever justified must take a back seat to the more important question: Is it effective at producing useful intelligence?
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 | The Many Worlds of Reality Shifting
Episode 1049, July 14, 2026
Is this new technique to move your consciousness into another world anything more than just vivid imagination? Maybe.
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 | The Pirates of Cozumel
Episode 1047, June 30, 2026
Popular tales claim that pirates used the island of Cozumel as a base of operations. History tells us pretty much the exact opposite.
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 | Red Light Therapy
Episode 1044, June 9, 2026
Usually, wellness therapies that claim to treat everything actually treat nothing.
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