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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novellawww.theskepticsguide.org
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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Episodes

The Skeptics Guide #177 - Dec 10 2008

News Items: Age of the Sphinx with Dr. James P Allen, Supernova Reflections and Milky Way's Black Hole with Phil Plait, Searching for Dyson Spheres; Your Questions and E-mail: Skeptical Authority; Randi Speaks: Cold Reading; Science or Fiction

Dec 13, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #176 - Dec 3 2008

News Items: Early Earth, Turtle Missing Link, Search for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Power from Sound; Your Questions and E-mail: DNA from Hair, Magic Water, Starting a Skeptics Group, Carbon Footprint; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Dec 06, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #175 - Nov 20 2008

Interview with Steven Schafersman; News Items: Kevin Trudeau Smackdown, Placebo Acupuncture, NASA Recycles Urine, Reflexology in UK Schools; Your Questions and E-mail: Flu Vaccine, NESS in Video Game; Science or Fiction

Nov 22, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #174 - Nov 18 2008

News Items: Exoplanet Pictures, Neuroscience of Telepathy, Jonestown Massacre, Science Attitudes; Your Questions and E-mail: More Info on Sperm Donation, Sleepwalking, Global Warming; Science or Fiction

Nov 22, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #173 - Nov 12 2008

Interview with Paul Offit; News Items: Junk DNA, Mini Nuclear Reactor, Chandrayaan-1 Update, Phoenix Ends, Child Witches; Science or Fiction

Nov 15, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #172 - Nov 5 2008

Interview with Greydon Square; News Items: Michael Crichton In Memoriam, Portable Space Shield, Oil from Fungus; Your Questions and E-mail: Due Diligence; Randi Speaks - Wrong!; Science or Fiction

Nov 08, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #171 - Oct 29 2008

Interview with Diana Blaney News Items: Vampire Moth, New Type of Planet, Artificial Heart, Polygraph for Debates, Science Debate 2008 Update Science or Fiction

Nov 01, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #170 - Oct 22 2008

Interview with Phil Plait News Items: Psychology of Superstition, Another Solar Breakthrough, UK UFO, Announcing SkepticBlog Your Questions and E-mails: Blacklight Free Energy Science or Fiction

Oct 25, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #168 - Oct 8 2008

Interview with PZ Myers; News Items 2008 Nobel Awards, Turing Test Your Questions and E-mails: Darwin Quote, Cosmology Name That Logical Fallacy Science or Fiction

Oct 11, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #167 - Oct 1 2008

Interview with Matthew Chapman News Items: Dust and Snow on Mars, PETA Nonsense, Calorie Restriction Diet Your Questions and E-mails: LHC Update, Correlation and Causation, Emergent Intelligence, Neanderthal DNA Science or Fiction

Oct 04, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #166 - Sep 24 2008

Interview with Sharon Begley News Items: LHC Problems, Worthless Acupuncture Studies, Japan Space Elevator, Belief and Credulity Your Questions and E-mails: Real versus Scientific Science or Fiction

Sep 27, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #165 - Sep 17 2008

Interview with Ben Goldacre News Items: Goldacre LIbel Victory, Stellar Mystery, Creationism in the UK Your Questions and E-mails: Pharma Conspiracy Name That Logical Fallacy Randi Speaks: The Media Science or Fiction

Sep 20, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #164 - Sep 10 2008

Interview with Ben Radford News Items: LHC Turned On, Elephant Math Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Correction,Irradiated Food, Pseudoscience Science or Fiction

Sep 13, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #163 - Sep 3 2008

SGU Live from DragonCon 2008 with special guests James Randi, Pamela Gay, and Derek Colanduno News Items: The Milky Ways Supermassive Blackhole Live Questions Science or Fiction

Sep 06, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #162 - Aug 26 2008

Interview with Richard Saunders News Items: WTC-7 Collapse, Neanderthal Tool Making, Rainbow Lady Follow Up Your Questions and E-mails: Teleportation Science or Fiction

Aug 30, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #161 - Aug 20 2008

Interview with Adam Savage from Mythbusters;News Items: Remembering Perry, Monkey Eludes Dragnet, Bigfoot Body Hoax Revealed, Robot with Biological Brain, The Future of Doping;Special Report: JREF Psychic Challenge Report;Science or Fiction

Aug 23, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #160 - Aug 13 2008

Interview with Captain Disillusion;News Items: Bigfoot Body Claim, Invisibility Cloak, Prince Charles on GM Food, Sprinkler Rainbow Lady;Science or Fiction

Aug 16, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #159 - Aug 6 2008

Interview with Phil Plait and James Randi; News Items: James Doohan Ashes Lost, Solar Power Breakthrough, China Weather Control, The Montauk Monster; Your Questions and E-mail: Where Does Matter Come From; Science or Fiction

Aug 09, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #158 - Jul 30 2008

Interview with Banachek; News Items: Edgar Mitchell UFO Claims, UFOs and Terrorism, Gas from Garbage; Your Questions and E-mail: House and the Therapeutic Diagnosis; Science or Fiction

Aug 02, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #157 - Jul 23 2008

Interview with George Hrab; News Items: New Plutoid, Detox Danger, Amanda Peet Defends Vaccines, Barbara Walters Disses James Van Praagh, Allah Meat; Your Questions and E-mail: Chaos Theory; Science or Fiction

Jul 25, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #156 - Jul 16 2008

Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson; News Items: Black Hole Hubbub, Its Just a Cracker, Tiktalik Nonsense, Micro Laser Surgery; Your Questions and E-mail: Convincing Evidence; Science or Fiction

Jul 19, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #155 - Jul 9 2008

Interview with James Randi; News Items: Einstein Right Again, Conservapedia Denies Evolution, Controversial Chelation Autism Study; Special Report: Roswell 61 Years Later; Science or Fiction

Jul 12, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #154 - Jul 2 2008

Interview with Dr Dean Edell; News Items: Darwin-Wallace Anniversary, Tunguska Remembered, Creationst Bill Passes in Louisana, Nanowire Battery, SGU on Youtube; Your Questions and E-mails: Collective Skeptics, Body Fruit; Randi Speaks: Speaker Cables; Science or Fiction

Jul 05, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #153 - Jun 21 2008

SGU Live from TAM6; News Items: Ice on Mars, Crop Circle Pi, Japanese Water Car, Psychic Alleges Sexual Abuse, FDA Crackdown, Spa Reflexology; Special Report-Brian Dunning Present Here Be Dragons Video; Live Questions from the Audience; Science or Fiction

Jun 28, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #151 - Jun 9 2008

Interview with Jon Blumenfeld; News Items: NPR Psychics, Mars Lander Update, Petaflop Supercomputers, Optical Illusions; Your Questions and E-mails: Casey Predictions; Science or Fiction

Jun 14, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #152 - Jun 11 2008

News Items: Bacteria Evolve, The 100mpg Car, Unicorn Deer, Fishing Monkeys, Plutoids, Albinos in Africa; Special Report-Crystal Skulls; Your Questions and E-mails: Coincidence, Green Nanoparticles; Name that Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Jun 14, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #150 - Jun 4 2008

Interview with Walter Isaacson; News Items: New Hoax Alien Video, Solar Power from Sapce, Anti-Vaccine March on Washington, CAM in New Zealand Follow Up; Your Questions and E-mails: Cold Fusion; Science or Fiction

Jun 07, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #149 - May 28 2008

Interview with JPL Scientist Diana Blaney; News Items: Wi Fi Ban, New Zealand Considering CAM, Scientology Free Speech Follow Up, Medical Science Reporting; Your Questions and E-mails: Tasmanian Tiger Corrections; Least Skeptical; Science or Fiction

May 31, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #148 - May 21 2008

Interview with Carl Zimmer; News Items: Tasmanian Tiger Gene Resurrected, Mobile Phones and Pregnancy, Is Scientology a Cult, Supernova Caught in the Act, Interview with Michael Shull about Discovering Missing Matter; Your Questions and E-mails: Radiometric Dating of Mt St Helens; Update on TAM6; Science or Fiction

May 24, 2008
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