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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 #147 - May 14 2008

Interview with Martin Rundkvist; News Items: Einstein and God, The Vatican The UK and UFO's, China Quake Superstitions, NASA Announces Supernova Discovery, Creationism in Maine; Your Questions and E-mails: Wizardry Followup; Science or Fiction

May 17, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #146 - May 7 2008

SGU 3-Year Anniversary; News Items: Florida Anti-Evolution Law Fails, Florida Teacher Fired for Wizardry; Special Report: Bobs Haunted Tour; Your Questions and E-mails: T-Rex Proteins, Water Experiment, Misconceptions about Evolution, Consumer Reports and Homeopathy; Science or Fiction

May 10, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #145 - Apr 30 2008

Interview with Kirsten Sanford; News Items: Mystery Lights in Maryland, Evolution Freedom Law in Florida, Gary Null-HIV Denier; Special Report: The Real Iron Man; Science or Fiction

May 03, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #144 - Apr 23 2008

Interview with Simon Singh; News Items: Man Raised from Dead, Politics of Vaccines, Penis Theft Panic; Your Questions and E-mails: Oldest Plant, The SGU Drinking Game, Space Junk, Brain Gym; Science or Fiction

Apr 26, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #143 - Apr 16 2008

Interview with Eric Avery; News Items: Scientology Defection, Are Vitamins Harmful, Replicator Replicates Itself, ET Not Likely; Your Questions and E-mails: Age of the Earth, Magnetic Water; Science or Fiction

Apr 19, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #142 - Apr 9 2008

Interview with Yau-Man Chan; News Items: Skeptologists Shoot Complete, UK Psychic crackdown, LHC and the God Particle, Monty Hall Problem in Research; Your Questions and E-mails: Cursing in Sanskrit; Science or Fiction

Apr 12, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #141 - Apr 2 2008

News Items: The Skeptologists, Expelled Again, Human-Cow Hybrid, Tantric Killing Fails; Your Questions and E-mails: Debunking Skeptics, Dinosaur Fossils on the Moon; Science or Fiction

Apr 05, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #140 - Mar 26 2008

Interview with Eugenie Scott; News Items: Rebecca's Asteroid, Airborne Lawsuit, Pregnant Man, Hypnotist Robber; Your Questions and E-mails: Robin Migration, More on Soap; Science or Fiction

Mar 29, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #139 - Mar 19 2008

Interview with Stephen Barrett; News Items: Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90, Saudi Scholar Denies Holocaust, Michael Egnor on ID Podcast, Believers Stare at the Sun; Your Questions and E-mails: Boy Scout Follow Up, Cosmetic Pseudoscience; Science or Fiction

Mar 22, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #138 - Mar 12 2008

Interview with Ola Fincke about Science Education in Oklahoma; News Items: Ghosts in the Mind, US Government Settles Autism-Vaccine Case, Real Death Star, Drugs in the Water, The Skeptologists; Randi Speaks-about Gary Schwartz; Science or Fiction

Mar 15, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #137 - Mar 5 2008

Special Report: Timeshare Scams; News Items: Spaceprobe Anomalies, Aromatherapy Study, McCain on Autism and Vaccines; Your Questions and E-mails: CECTIC Skeptical Cartoon, Global Warming on Mars, Magneto Boy; Science or Fiction

Mar 08, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #136 - Feb 27 2008

News Items: McFeng Sui, Anti-Scientific Medicine in South Africa, Type IV Civilization, Killer Robots; Your Questions and E-mails: Favorite Science and Skeptical Books; Science or Fiction

Mar 02, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #135 - Feb 20 2008

Interview with Robert FitzPatrick; News Items: Lunar Eclipse, Censoring Skeptics, Scientific Challenges of 21st Century, Dualism; Your Questions and E-mails: Naadi Palm Leaf Reading; Science or Fiction

Feb 23, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #134 - Feb 13 2008

Interview with PZ Myers; News Items: Bat Evolution, UK Officials Evict Ghost, Acupuncture and IVF, Alien Mind Control, Darwin Day; Your Questions and E-mails: Fasting; Science or Fiction

Feb 16, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #133 - Feb 6 2008

Interview with Richard Hayes; News Items: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Dies,More Perpetual Motion, Voting in Invisible Ink, Canadian Snake Oil; Your Questions and E-mails: Organic Milk, Apocalypse 2012, SETI; Science or Fiction

Feb 09, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #132 - Jan 30 2008

News Items: UK Homeopathy In Crisis, Creationist Research Journal, Facilitated Communication in the Courtroom, ABC Drama on Vaccines and Autism, Arabian Brain Drain; Your Questions and E-mails: Got Milk, Psychic Cheat; Name that Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction

Feb 02, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #131 - Jan 23 2008

Special Guests Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay from Astronomy Cast; News Items: Texas UFO follow up, Mars Bigfoot, Homer on Mercury, Asteroid 2007 TU24, Bionic Eyes, Coast to Coast Gets Punked; Your Questions and E-mails: Restless Leg Syndrome, Time Travel, Relativity; Science or Fiction

Jan 26, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #130 - Jan 16 2008

Interview with Brian Dunning from Skeptoid; News Items: Scientists Make Beating Heart, Divining Intervention, UFO over Texas, Reaction to More Evidence Against Vaccines and Autism, Cruise Scientology Recruiting Video; Your Questions and E-mails: The K-T Extinction; Science or Fiction

Jan 19, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #129 - Jan 9 2008

Interview with John Rennie; News Items: SGU 5x5, The Reason Driven Podcast, Insects may have Killed the Dinosaurs, Biofuels; Your Questions and E-mails: Neti Pots, Healing Magnets; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction

Jan 12, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #128 - Jan 2 2008

News Items: New Science Based Medicine Blog, Psychic Predictions 2007, Edward to Channel Irwin, Masters Degree in Creation Science, Magic Amulets; Your E-mail and Questions: SGU for teachers, Magic Foot Pads, Quantum Entanglement and Warp Drive; Science or Fiction

Jan 05, 2008

The Skeptics Guide #126 - Dec 19 2007

Interview with Richard Wiseman; News Items: Rebecca's Pilot, Magic Leg, Creationists New Strategy; Your Questions and E-mails: Scientific Criticism, Cattle Mutilation, Eidetic memory; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Dec 21, 2007

The Skeptics Guide #124 - Dec 5 2007

Interview with Lawrence Krauss; News Items: Hucka-Bee, Moonbeams in Arizona, Chimp Memory, Anti-vaccine misinformation on Youtube; Your Questions and E-mails: Stem Cell Con, Information Theory; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Dec 07, 2007

The Skeptics Guide #123 - Nov 28 2007

News Items: Science and Faith, Computer Brain, Psychic Ripoff, Wifi and Autism; Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptiko on Skeptics; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Dec 01, 2007

The Skeptics Guide #122 - Nov 20 2007

News Items: Judgment Day Censored, Blue Ghost Followup, Death by Energy Medicine, Photo Memory Manipulation; Special Feature: Our Day at the Psychic Fair; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Sex Correction; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Nov 24, 2007

The Skeptics Guide #121 - Nov 14 2007

Interview with Paul Kurtz; News Items: Judgment Day for ID, UFO Investigation, Universe loses weight, FDA Petition, Gas Station Ghost; Your Questions and E-mails: BMI; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Nov 17, 2007

The Skeptics Guide #120 - Nov 7 2007

Interview with Greydon Square; News Items: Phenomenon, Robot cars, Jehovahs Witness death, Fat is Healthy, Judgment Day, Follow up on Mange; Your Questions and E-mails: Special Request; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Nov 11, 2007

The Skeptics Guide #119 - Oct 30 2007

News Items: Ghosthunting Season, Report from the Homeopathy Conference, Rude 9-11 Truthers, Dinosaur Extinction, Mangy Bigfoot; Your Questions and E-mails: Supplements, Spine tingling; Randi Speaks: Jaque Benveniste; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Nov 03, 2007

The Skeptics Guide #118 - Oct 24 2007

Interview with Joe Nickell; News Items: Autism and Vaccines, Ben Stein on OReilly, James Watson Followup, The Dangers of Pseudoscience; Your Questions and E-mails: Honey, Flu Vaccine Myths; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle

Oct 27, 2007
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