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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 #417 - Jul 13 2013

Interview with Paul Offit; This Day in Skepticism: Carl Zimmer and Erno Rubik; News Items: Seeing Through Walls, First in Flight, Tylenol and Fear, Spinning Pharoah; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Head Transplant; Science or Fiction

Jul 13, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #416 - Jul 6 2013

Guest Rogue: Randall Snyder; This Day in Skepticism: Pasteur; Special Report: Leaving Mormonism; News Items: Crop Circles in History, Constructing Morality; Movie Review: World War Z; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Patent Troll Follow Up; Science or Fiction

Jul 06, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #415 - Jun 29 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Roy Wolford; News Items: Podcasting Patent, Class System in Mice, Anti-GMO Pseudoscience, Skunk Ape; Special Report: GyroStim and Science Journalism; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Staticman; Science or Fiction

Jun 29, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #414 - Jun 22 2013

Interview with Daniel Loxton; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Osteoarthritis, Patenting DNA, Foot Fungus, Chinese Fake Alien, New Type of Star; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Can We Know Everything; Science or Fiction

Jun 22, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #413 - Jun 15 2013

This Day in Skepticism: First Blood Transfusion; News Items: Vaccine Refusal, Seeing Ultraviolet, Ape Feet, Elizabeth I a Man?; Special Report: Don McLeroy Follow Up; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Living on Sunshine; Science or Fiction

Jun 15, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #412 - Jun 8 2013

Interview with Joshie Berger; This Day in Skepticism: Missile Mail; News Items: Star Trek Review, Kepler Broken; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Small Hadron Collider, Carnivorous Sponge, Pollen; Science or Fiction

Jun 08, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #411 - Jun 1 2013

Interview with Vijay Dewan and Scott Thurman; This Day in Skepticism: Cosmic Background Radiation; News Items: Mermaids, Angelina Jolie, Prosopagnosia, Flying Car; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Raw Honey; Science or Fiction

Jun 01, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #410 - May 25 2013

Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders; This Day in Skepticism: Geek Pride Day; News Items: McCormick Sentenced, Meteroid Hits Moon, DSM-5, Placenta Madness; Who's that Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Water Heater Followup, McLeroy Interview; Science or Fiction

May 25, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #409 - May 18 2013

Interview with Heather Berlin; This Day in Skepticism: Nicholas II; News Items: Your Senses in Space, Talking Plants, Flowing Glass; Book Review: Ender's Game; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Water Heaters, Atacama Specimen; Science or Fiction

May 18, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #408 - May 11 2013

Interview with Don McLeroy; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Sylvia Browne Wrong Again, Cosmic Rays and Lightening, Cicada Return; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

May 11, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #407 - May 4 2013

Mystery Guest; SGU 8 year Anniversary; News Items: Funding Science, Curse Scam, Fusion Reactor, Einstein Still Correct; Oblivion Review; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Is SETI Science; Science or Fiction

May 03, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #406 - Apr 27 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Samuel Morse; News Items: Mars One, Bomb Detector Fraud, TED and Chopra, Creationism and Dinosaurs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bitcoin Follow Up; Science or Fiction

Apr 27, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #405 - Apr 20 2013

Guest Rogues: Jon Ronson and Simon Singh; This Day in Skepticism: Sundogs; Simon Singh's New Book; News Items: Bitcoins, Internet Criminals, BRAIN Project, Evidence of Dark Matter, Hallucinating Music; Science or Fiction

Apr 20, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #404 - Apr 13 2013

Live from NECSS 2013; Guest Rogue: Cathleen Carr; This Day in Skepticism: Apollo 13; Remembering Perry; News Items: Conspiracy Survey, Misused Scientific Terms, New Type of Supernova, Vaccines Make You Gay, Anti-Vaccine Propaganda on Twitter; Science or Fiction; Live Q&Q: Effects of Alcohol, Online Health Information, Art and Science

Apr 13, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #403 - Apr 6 2013

Interview with Ian O'Neill; This Day in Skepticism: Isaac Asimov; News Items: Fairy Circle Update, Zombie Parasites, Retraction Watch, Genetic Transistors, Prescribing Placebos; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Apr 04, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #402 - Mar 30 2013

Guest Rogue: Karl Withakay; This Day in Skepticism: Mary Whiton Calkins and Ellen Swallow Richards; News Items: Homeopathy Debate, Small Pterosaur, Fracking Earthquakes, Never Eat Again, Voyager at the Edge; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More Than Gravity; Science or Fiction

Mar 30, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #401 - Mar 23 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Pons and Fleischmann; News Items: Marshmallow Test, Bacteria Everywhere, Acupuncture HIV, Dr. Oz Sued, New Pope; Special Report: Why Worry?; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Mar 23, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #400 - Mar 16 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Lawrence Oates; News Items: Meteorite Fossils, Duane Gish Dies, Acupuncture Meta-Analysis, Live to 150, Close Star Discovered; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Mar 16, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #398 - Mar 2 2013

Interview with Jon Ronson; This Day in Skepticism: Compact Disk; News Items: Life Around Dying Stars, Ancient Lost Continent, Electronic Tattoos, Google Glass; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Ouch; Science or Fiction

Mar 02, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #397 - Feb 23 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Heisenberg; News Items: Russian Meteor, Spontaneous Human Combustion, Cosmos Unstable, Bigfoot DNA Published, Intellectually Lazy; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Retro Futurism; Science or Fiction

Feb 23, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #396 - Feb 16 2013

Interview with Brian Wecht; This Day in Skepticism: Chien-Shiung Wu; News Items: AI Doctor, Ball and Cup Magic, Gorilla in the Bronchi, Feathered Dino Follow Up; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Feb 16, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #395 - Feb 9 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Space Medicine; News Items: Russian Lake Monster, Bones of Richard III, Scientific Genius, Without Fear, Feathered Dinosaurs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Tuesday Boy; Interview with George Hrab; Science or Fiction

Feb 09, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #394 - Feb 2 2013

Interview with John Rennie; This Day in Skepticism: Groundhog Day; News Items: Up Goer Five, China Smog, Vaccine Court, Deer Antler Spray; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Perpetual Motion; Science or Fiction

Feb 02, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #393 - Jan 26 2013

Interview with Zack Kopplin; This Day in Skepticism: Brachistochrone curve; News Items: Manti Te'o Hox, River on Mars, Neanderthal Baby; Special Report: Nikola Tesla; Who's That Noisy; Your questions and E-mails: Vomitorium; Skeptoid Chinese; Science or Fiction

Jan 26, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #392 - Jan 19 2013

Interview with Massimo Polidoro; This Day in Skepticism: Neon Signs; News Items: Predicting Murders, Lead and Crime, Biggest Thing in the Universe, Defending the Million Dollar Challenge, Turkey Bans Evolution Books, Apophis Update; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Jan 19, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #391 - Jan 12 2013

This Day in Skepticism: Dr. James Bedford; News Items: Below Absolute Zero, Burzynski Challenge, Genome Editing, Celebrity Pseudoscience, Oz Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Jan 12, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #390 - Jan 5 2013

Interview with Massimo Pigliucci; This Day in Skepticism: FM Radio; News Items: Psychic Predictions 2012, Cosmic Rays and Dementia; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Jan 05, 2013

The Skeptics Guide #389 - Dec 29 2012

SGU 2012 Year in Review; This Day in Skepticism: Thomas Fuller; Best and Worst of 2012; In Memoriam; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Dec 29, 2012

The Skeptics Guide #388 - Dec 22 2012

This Day in Skepticism: Coelacanth; News Items: Sandy Hook Massacre, China Stabbing, AVN to Change Name, Megalapteryx Foot, Invisibility Cloak; Special Report: The Hobbit and High Frame Rate; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Dec 22, 2012
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