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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 #297 - Mar 24 2011

This Week in Skepticism: Hale Bop Cult; News Items: Meier Earthquake Non-prediction, Swarm Robots, Sexual Preference, Pre-biotic Chemistry, Science fact vs fiction; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Radiation Hormesis, Overunity, Fecal Transplants; Science or Fiction

Mar 26, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #296 - Mar 16 2011

Interview with Mark Mervine; This Week in Skepticism; News Items: Japan Earthquake, Time Traveling Particle, Finding Atlantis, TAM9 From Outer Space; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections - Magellan and DNA Computing, Ambit Energy; Science or Fiction

Mar 19, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #295 - Mar 9 2011

Interview with Ben Radford; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Meteorite Bacteria, Biological Computers, Super Full Moon, Imam Retracts Support for Evolution; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Definition of Skeptic; Science or Fiction

Mar 12, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #294 - Mar 2 2011

Interview with Eric-Jan Wagenmakers; This Day in Skepticism: Limelight; News Items: Predicting Earthquakes, Growing Fuel, Neutron Star Superflluidity, Heidi Follow up; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Information Follow up, 10,000 Years in the Future; Science or Fiction

Mar 05, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #293 - Feb 23 2011

Guest Rogue: Joshie Berger; This Day in Skepticism: Galileo Censored; News Items: Internet Kill Switch, Japan to Trawl for Space Junk, Watson on Jeopardy!, Lie to Me; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lost Information; Science or Fiction

Feb 26, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #292 - Feb 16 2011

Interview with Kevin Folta; News Items: Jovian in the Outer Solar System, Haunted Theme Park Ride, Heidi the Cross-eyed Psychic Opossum; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Product Reviews; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Feb 19, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #291 - Feb 9 2011

Interview with Jeff Ainslee; News Items: Processed Food and IQ, Bacterial Intelligence, Skin Cell Spray Gun, Treating Trauma with Herbs, Jerusalem UFO; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Feb 12, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #290 - Jan 31 2011

Guest Rogue: Dr. Ray Greek - The Science of Animal Models; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Homeopathy Pseudoscience, Teachers Cautious about Evolution; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Countering Fallacies; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Feb 05, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #289 - Jan 26 2011

News Items: Jack LaLanne dies at 96, Cold Fusion Again, The Cochrane Review of Statins, Astrologists Angered, More on Education; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Alien DNA; Science or Fiction

Jan 29, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #288 - Jan 19 2011

News Items: No Ghosts in my Backyard, Simulating Earth, Reaction to Bem's Psi Research, Engineered Chickens, Cloning Mammoths; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Sun as Battery, Land Sharks; Science or Fiction

Jan 22, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #287 - Jan 12 2011

Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; News Items: Molten Exoplanet, BMJ Slams Wakefield, Creationist Teacher Fired, Galactic Black Holes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nassim Haramein; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Jan 15, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #286 - Jan 5 2011

Predictions 2010 and 2011; News Items: Mysterious Bird Deaths, Predictions from 1931, Mars News in 2010, Apocalypse 2011, Printing Solar Cells; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thomas Kuhn; Science or Fiction

Jan 08, 2011

The Skeptics Guide #284 - Dec 22 2010

News Items: Arsenic-Based Life, Buttology, V-Steam, Singing Mice, The Real daVinci Code; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Power Bands with James Randi and the SkepticBros; Science or Fiction

Dec 24, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #283 - Dec 15 2010

Interview with Dan Gardner; News Items: Piltdown Anniversary, Hydrogen Production, Voyager Leaves Solar System, Slushball Earth; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Alien Plants vs Animals; Science or Fiction

Dec 18, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #282 - Dec 8 2010

SGU Live in Sydney Australia; News Items: New Crystal Skull, Roger Penrose Before the Big Bang, Chimps Outwit Human Traps, Anti-Antivax Activism; Special Report: Masonic Conspiracy Theories; Science or Fiction; Live Q&A: Scientists Baffled, Size of Quantum Effects, Sympathectomy, Future of Skepticism, Pseudo-Experts

Dec 11, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #281 - Dec 1 2010

SGU Live in Vancouver with Special Guest: George Hrab; News Items: SETI 50th Anniversary, Antimatter Breakthrough, Nanoparticles and Glowing Trees, Oprah Promotes Psychic Surgeon, Latest PSI Research, Bending Time and Space; Live Q&A: Neurology of Belief, Coincidence, Multi-Level Marketing; Science or Fiction with Special Guest Fraser Cain

Dec 03, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #280 - Nov 24 2010

Special Guest: Richard Saunders; News Items: Eken Power Bands; Your Questions and E-mails: Frozen Stiff, Cockroach Brains, Deal or No Deal; Name That Logical Fallacy: Argument from Silence; Special Topic: Religious Skeptics; Science or Fiction

Nov 27, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #279 - Nov 15 2010

Interview with D.J. Grothe; News Items: NASA Discovers Mysterious Bubbles, Exploiting "Psychic" Kids, More Homeopathy Spin; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lunar Weather Predicting, Caffeine and Sperm Count; Science or Fiction

Nov 19, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #278 - Nov 10 2010

News Items: Carl Sagan Day, Mystery Missile, LHC Big Bang, The Twinkie Diet, Hamburger Experiments Redux; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Spinning Spaceship, Ear Light; Science or Fiction

Nov 13, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #277 - Nov 3 2010

Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss; News Items: Psychic Cat, 100 Year Starship Project, Cure for Common Cold, Life on the Moon, Alien Ballot Defeated; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Banana Ripening; Science or Fiction

Nov 06, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #276 - Sep 27 2010

News Items: Ghosts Calling Cellphones, Hawking Radiation, More On Radioactive Decay Rates, The Science of Medicine, NECSS 2011, Physics.org Award Nomination; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Time Traveling Cell Phone User; Interview with SGU Forums Moderators; Science or Fiction

Oct 30, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #275 - Oct 19 2010

Guest Rogue: Brian Trent; News Items: Benoit Mandlebrot 1924-2010, Stem Cell Funding, Do Mummies Get Cancer, Asteroids Buzz Earth; Your Questions and E-mails: Whale Poop Correction, T-Rex Blood Cells, Help - My Friend is a Pseudoscientist; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Oct 23, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #274 - Oct 13 2010

Interview with Ben Goldacre; News Items: Dark Matter Strangeness, Vaccine Case in Supreme Court, Gliese 581g Follow Up; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Magic Burgers; Science or Fiction

Oct 16, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #273 - Oct 6 2010

News Items: 2010 Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics, 2010 IgNobels, Diesel from a Stone; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mass and Gravity, Science Education, Laughing Hyenas; Science or Fiction

Oct 08, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #272 - Sep 30 2010

Interview with Bug Girl; News Items: New Moonlanding Footage, UN Alien Ambassador, Poor Science Education, New Force of Nature?, Goldilocks Planet; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Oct 02, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #271 - Sep 22 2010

Interview with Simon Singh; News Items: Losing Your Religion, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Dirty Electricity, Origins of Moons, Halfalogue; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Sep 25, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #270 - Sep 15 2010

Interview with Ben Radford, Joe Nickell, and Karen Stollznow; News Items: Modern Geocentrism, Irish Minister of Science Scandal, Robot Skin, No Link between Thimerosal and Autism, Canadian Government Muzzles Scientists, Crop Circle Sting; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Sep 18, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #269 - Sep 8 2010

Interview with Carol Tavris; News Items: Stephen Hawking on God, Magnetic Mom, Organic Strawberries, Burning the Quran, Pyschic Incites Mob; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Sep 11, 2010

The Skeptics Guide #268 - Sep 1 2010

Interview with Donald Prothero; News Items: Thorium Power, Impacts and Extinction, Spontaneous Combustion, Enfield Poltergeist, Ghost Train; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mitochondrial Eve Follow Up; Science or Fiction

Sep 04, 2010
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