A Skeptic's Guide to Sleepmaxxing - Skeptoid This social media fad promises to supercharge your sleep and make you healthier than healthy, when in fact it probably does significantly more harm than good.

What's the best way to improve the quality of your sleep? Hint: It's *NOT* to listen to "sleepmaxxing" influencers who will (guaranteed) do you much more harm than good. This week on Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1037

Your periodic reminder: "Zero-point energy" is not a thing Just because you heard something in pop culture doesn't make it a part of physics.

Influencers, pop wooists, pseudoscience aficionados, and Alpha Bros throw the term around almost like they know what it means — and every time they do, it shows us that they DON'T. Your reminder that ZERO-POINT ENERGY IS NOT A THING: today on my Substack: briandunning.substack.com/p/your-perio...

Belief in chemtrails continues to rise Every day, tens of thousands of commercial airliners take to the skies with a hidden agenda: to spray toxic chemicals into the sky — or so some of our government officials want you to think.

The chemtrail foolishness is not just "still going around" — it's on the rise, bigly. Because foolishness is, apparently, now one of the US national values. Today on my Substack:

The Myth of the Alpha Wolf - Skeptoid It turns out there's probably no such thing as an alpha wolf.

Is the whole concept of the "Alpha Male" based on a false myth? Find out in this week's Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1036

It's movie time again! As we here at Skeptoid Media embark upon yet another film production...

I used my Substack today to dive a bit deeper into the new movie, what it's going to be about, what we hope to accomplish. Enjoy & share!

Yea; and he did synthesize his famous Korean beef bowl.

Yay! The teaser is now up for our next feature documentary film. Watch it now! (And be inspired to donate!) skeptoid.org/alienechoes

PSA: Blue light glasses are snake oil bullshit They don't help you sleep better, and they don't protect your eyes from harmful computer screens.

PSA: Blue light glasses are snake oil bullshit. Today on my Substack:

How Disastrous Are Declining Birth Rates? - Skeptoid Popular influencers claim birth rates are declining disastrously. How true is that, and is it a disaster?

Popular public figures have been sounding the alarm about the national birth rate dropping so precipitously, and warning of the disastrous impacts to follow. Is it true? And if so, is it really a huge disaster? This week on Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1035

SCIENTISTS BAFFLED: Unprecedented meteor superstorm batters the US! Is it the End of Times? Is it an alien invasion? Or was it just a familiar sociological phenomenon?

My take on the social media claims of an unprecedented number of METEORS! in our skies during March. Free on my Substack:

Because I'm not a bonehead who gets their information from TikTok influencers.

How I got 25 million people to watch a movie about a science they reject The Info Sandwich: A way to make facts palatable to the fact-hostile

How I got 25 million people to watch a movie about a science they reject. This week on my Substack: making facts palatable to the fact-hostile.

A new friend I met a couple weeks ago.

So there's this weird little story from 1864 about Colorado prospectors who found a huge, complete sarcophagus from Mars containing the petrified remains of a small being. Why was effort put into reporting this obviously-fake claim? This week on Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1034

BREAKING: Astronomer Avi Loeb is still a crackpot. Just when you think he has divested all semblance of scientific credibility, he somehow manages to shed another layer.

Yes, he's at it AGAIN: Full-time crackpot "and Harvard astrophysicist" Avi Loeb is once again claiming that an ordinary and expected finding is *actually* evidence of ALIEN VISITATION! To determine someone's character, offer them money to abandon their principles — and see what they do.

I've been seeing another surge online about how in the Earth's early days when the Moon was closer and its gravitional influence was much greater, we would have had enormous supersonic monster tidal waves. This is not correct: skeptoid.com/episodes/683

Oregon's ban on single-use plastic grocery bags backfired — just as researchers said it would. Policy should be based on data, not on gut feelings.

Public policy is too often based on someone's gut feeling, rather than on data. How did Oregon's plastic bag ban work out? Hint: Not good. open.substack.com/pub/briandun...

Skeptifying BBC's Uncanny - Skeptoid Supplying some much-needed skepticism to an episode of the BBC podcast Uncanny.

This week on Skeptoid: Adding some much-needed skepticism to an episode of the BBC podcast "Uncanny": skeptoid.com/episodes/1033

Sailing the Skeptical Seas Skeptoid event on April 18, 2026

Everyone! We had a last-minute unavoidable cancellation on our "Sailing the Skeptical Seas" adventure, April 18-25 in the Mediterranean. We can offer this ticket at a SUBSTANTIAL discount. It is for one male,in a shared cabin. Reach brian@skeptoid.com & kathy@skeptoid.com ASAP if you are interested!

Man with 36,000 Big Macs under his belt is charged with probably being unhealthy. But he's not! No matter what your news article is about, slide in a jab at fast food — an untrue one, at that. Because it's popular to do so.

Once again — the media uses false claims to bash fast food, because it's always fashionable. People love to believe whatever's popular, rather than whatever's factual. Today on my Substack:

Shocked! Shocked, I say.

Your Tesla wants to murder you! Different names, same old news. The media has been deceptively blaming our cars for all kinds of allegedly-dangerous defects for a century.

Make no mistake: When tabloid TV wants sensational content, they create intentional propaganda films, NOT impartial reporting. Tesla is only the latest victim in a long line of car manufacturers vilified by the media. Today on my Substack:

Bigfoot's total absence from the eDNA record can only be plausibly explained by its nonexistence.

Is Germ Theory a Myth? - Skeptoid Even today, some people cling to a pre-scientific belief that germs do not cause disease.

It's the 21st century, and belief that germs don't exist (or don't cause disease) is on the rise. We live in crazy times — when it's politically correct to reject basic facts about the world. New on Skeptoid: skeptoid.com/episodes/1032

All the details in one place: New doc shows the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film was hoaxed. We already knew the film was a hoax, but the revelations in "Capturing Bigfoot"add several thick new layers of corroborating evidence.

You've already heard that a new documentary proves the famous Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film was a hoax; now here are all the film's revelations for you in one place. Today on my Substack:

Hello! From the early morning streets of PDX

Has a Government UFO Figurehead Been Abducted for Knowing Too Much? The disappearance of Major General William Neil McCasland, USAF (Ret.) has the UFO community abuzz.

The UFO community is exploiting the tragic disappearance of this distinguished retired USAF general to promote their agenda, and it's frankly disgusting. Today on my Substack:

Turns out to be a surprisingly rich and interesting exploration: Might an ancient advanced civilization have once existed on Earth, long enough ago that all traces would have been wiped out by geological processes? How do we know? This week on Skeptoid: skep.us/1031

The teleprompters were shattered, even though the photos show they're not? OK

Constitutional protections apply to all people on US soil Don't listen to anyone who tells you that non-citizens are not entitled to Constitutional protections.

I got fed up with populist memes falsely claiming immigrants aren't entitled to due process — a perspective betraying a shocking ignorance of the Constitution and what the US is (or should be) all about as a nation. Today on my Substack: