The Skeptics Guide #1046 - Jul 26 2025
What's the Word: Fossil Words; News Items: New Supermaterial, Avi Loeb and the Alien Hypothesis, Belly Fat Jab, Hormone Therapy, Death by Haunted Doll; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Jul 26, 2025
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly science podcast discussing the latest science news, critical thinking, bad science, conspiracies and controversies. -The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Your escape to reality - Produced by SGU Productions, LLC: https://www.theskepticsguide.org
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The Skeptics Guide #1045 - Jul 19 2025
Quickie with Bob: Weird Exoplanet; News Items: Voyager Thrusters Brought Back to Life, Space Tourism, Global Temperature and Ice Sheet Melting, Robots Learn Physical Tasks 60 Times Faster, Most Powerful Solar Storm; Your Questions and E-mails: EV Charging, Off the Hook; Science or Fiction
Jul 19, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1044 - Jul 12 2025
Dumbest Word of the Week: Orthomolecular; News Items: Ban Left Turns, Bird Flu Shenanigans, Interstellar Comet, Artificial Blood, Beekeeping Benefits; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI Tech Support; Science or Fiction
Jul 12, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1043 - Jul 5 2025
Quickie with Bob: Quantum Electronics; News Items: AI Research Collaborators, AI Carbon Footprint, Curing Deafness, Food Myths, AI Enzyme Engineering; Who's That Noisy; Why Didn't I Know This: The Great Attractor; Your Questions and E-mails: Why Scientists Fall for Woo; Science or Fiction
Jul 05, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1042 - Jun 28 2025
What's the Word: Eco; News Items: Vaccinating the World, How Children vs AI Acquire Language, Vera Rubin Observatory, Visible Nova, Effects of Chat GPT on the Brain; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Jun 28, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1041 - Jun 21 2025
Guest Rogue: Justin Daab; From TikTok: Mysterious Moon; News Items: Scopes 100 Year Anniversary, Smells and Hunger, GMOs May Save Florida Citrus, Black Hole Supercollider, Antarctica Radio Pulses; Special Report: Does AI Think?; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Jun 21, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1040 - Jun 14 2025
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Premium Water; News Items: NASA Budget, RFK Jr Sacks Vaccine Panel, Digital Life After Death, Light Out of Nothing, Possible New Treatment for HIV; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Replicating Eratosthenes; Science or Fiction
Jun 14, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1039 - Jun 7 2025
Interview with Emily Schoerning; Quickie with Bob: Prepping for Q-Day; News Items: Seed Oils, Lead into Gold, American Lysenkoism, The Screwworm is Coming, Galactic Collision; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dream Learning; Science or Fiction
Jun 07, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1038 - May 31 2025
Quickie with Steve: Global Warming and Ocean Currents; News Items: Infrared Contact Lenses, Trees Respond to Solar Eclipse, Affective Polarization, The Brain's Motor Switchboard, New Dwarf Planet Candidate; Discussion: The Effect of Science Fiction; Your Questions and E-mails: HHS Cancels Vaccine Contract; Science or Fiction
May 31, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1037 - May 24 2025
Live from NotACon with Guest Rogue Adam Russell; News Items: New Cambrian Fossil, Best Archaeopteryx Specimen, Chimps Using First Aid, Treatment for Baldness, New Color - Olo, The Next Theranos, Bespoke Genetic Therapy; Science or Fiction
May 24, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1036 - May 17 2025
Dumbest Word of the Week: Moxibustion; News Items: Cold Plunges, The End of Life, Floating Nuclear Power, Visualizing Special Relativity, Brainspotting Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Ethics of Pig Hearts, Are Flat Earthers Real; Science or Fiction
May 17, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1035 - May 10 2025
Quickie with Bob: Fusion Rockets; News Items: Falling Space Debris, What Makes People Flourish, Pig Heart Xenografts, Chiropractic Stroke, Breathable Algae Drug Delivery; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Faster Than Light Expansion, Autism Self-Diagnosis; Science or Fiction
May 10, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1034 - May 3 2025
Interview with Melanie Trecek-King; News Items: Internet Fakes and Violence, Lab Grown Teeth, RFK On Autism, AI Designed Instruments; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Big Bang Miracle; Science or Fiction
May 03, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1033 - Apr 26 2025
Quickie with Steve: Game Transfer Phenomenon; Geoengineering, Biosignature Candidate, Skull Rock on Mars; Commercial Perovskite Solar Panels; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Another Unified Theory; Science or Fiction
Apr 26, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1032 - Apr 19 2025
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Turned to Stone; News Items: Where Did Earth's Water Come From, EPA Data on Emissions, Is Your Red My Red, Evolution of Complex Life, Crow Math Skills; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Separate the Art from the Artists, Does the Moon Rotate; Science or Fiction
Apr 19, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1031 - Apr 12 2025
TikTok Flat Earthers; News Items: De-extincting the Dire Wolf, What Experts Think About AI, Planned Obsolescence, VR Touch Sensory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: SNPs vs Sequencing; Science or Fiction
Apr 12, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1030 - Apr 5 2025
What's the Word: enantiodromia; News Items: AI Protein Sequencing, Solving the Bat Cocktail Party Problem, The Extremely Large Telescope, CIA and the Ark of the Covenant, 23&Me Selling Personal Data; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: RFK Jr and Vaccines, Counterintuitive Math Problem; Science or Fiction
Apr 05, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1029 - Mar 29 2025
Quickie with Bob: Extinction Survivors; News Items: Constructed Languages, Exercise and Brain Health, Curiosity Rover Finds Long Carbon Chains, Nanotech Lightsails, Vaccine and Autism Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Technology vs Magic; Science or Fiction
Mar 29, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1028 - Mar 22 2025
Interview with Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello; News Items: NASA Delays Artemis, Punishing AI, Hybrid Bionic Hand, Pettawatt Electron Beam; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Rewriting Physics; Science or Fiction
Mar 19, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1027 - Mar 15 2025
Interview with Professor Dave; What's the Word: Psionic; News Items: Screen Time and Mental Health, Exposure to Mass Shootings, Stem Cells for Parkinson's, Brown Fat and Exercise; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Vitamin A and Measles; Science or Fiction
Mar 15, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1026 - Mar 8 2025
Quickie with Bob: Atlantic Shutdown; News Items: Measles Outbreak, Reintroducing Wolves, TIGR-Tas Gene Editing, Blood Donor Who Saved Millions Dies, Star Mergers; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Intricate Web of Civilization; Science or Fiction
Mar 05, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1025 - Mar 1 2025
Interview with Adam Russell; News Items: Congestion Pricing, AI Therapists, Redefining Dyslexia, Small Modular Reactors for Cargo Ships; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Mar 01, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1024 - Feb 22 2025
News Items: Bird Brains, Indoor Air Quality, Abortions and Infant Mortality, Black Holes Without Singularities, Banning Chemtrails; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Asteroid Hitting the Moon; Swindler's List: Tax Scams; Science or Fiction
Feb 22, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1023 - Feb 15 2025
News Items: Demographics of Misinformation, The Toll of Fake Research, Dangerous Street Drugs, Nearby Habitable Zone Exoplanet, Reverse Engineering Alien Technology<"br>Who's That Noisy; Science Quiz; Your Questions and E-mails: Starlink Reentries; Science or Fiction
Feb 15, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1022 - Feb 8 2025
Quickie With Bob: Using Nukes to Deflect Asteroids; News Items: Near Earth Asteroid Threat, Does the Internet Affect Our Memory, Growing City Rat Problem, Do Apes Have a Theory of Mind, NASA Astronauts Harassed by Aliens; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Feb 08, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1021 - Feb 1 2025
What's the Word: Geyser; News Items: Self Replicating AI, DeepSeek, PEPFAR Freeze, Chemical Looping, Giant Clams and Tiny Algae; Who's That Noisy; You Questions and E-mails: Telepathy Tapes; Science or Fiction
Feb 01, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1020 - Jan 25 2025
Guest Rogue Andrea Jones Rooy; News Items: Unexpected Scientific Results, Trust In Scientists, Red Dye #3, Andromeda Mosaic, Telepathy Tapes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Jan 25, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1019 - Jan 18 2025
Interview with Nick Tiller, News Items: Does Fact-Checking Work, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, The LA Fires, Building Materials for Storing Carbon; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Jan 18, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1018 - Jan 11 2025
Quickie with Steve: Primate Twins: News Items: Mars Sample Return, Unique Glacial Microbiomes, Transatlantic Tunnel, Alcohol Advisory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Flu Vaccine, Cryptid Mascots; Science or Fiction
Jan 11, 2025
The Skeptics Guide #1017 - Jan 4 2025
Psychic Predictions 2024; News Items: Space Exploration in 2025, Emerging Diseases, Dark Energy May Not Exist, Bigfoot Deaths; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fusion Energy, In Memoriam Addendum; Science or Fiction
Jan 04, 2025
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