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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 #866 - Feb 12 2022

Quotation Rotation; News Items: Treating Spinal Cord Injury, Artificial Enamel, Laser Thermal Propulsion, Chimps Self-Medicating; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: De-Extinction; Science or Fiction

Feb 12, 2022

The Skeptics Guide #865 - Feb 5 2022

Quickie with Bob - Scientists Invent Flubber; News Items: Machine Learning and Mental Health, Hardy Tardigrades, DNA Microfossils, Belief in the Paranormal and Credibility, Tesla Robots; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Rogan and Spotify; Science or Fiction

Feb 05, 2022

The Skeptics Guide #864 - Jan 29 2022

What's the Word: Allopatric; News Items: Carbon Signatures on Mars, Schoolkids and Conspiracy Theories, Peter Jackson Uses AI to Restore Beatles, Human Remains Locator; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: 5G and Airlines, The Effects of Climate Change; Science or Fiction

Jan 29, 2022

The Skeptics Guide #863 - Jan 22 2022

Interview with Brad McKay, Special Segment: 5G and Airlines; News Items: Origins of Life, Zombie Science, Silent as an Owl, Evolution of Flowering Plants; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Jan 22, 2022

The Skeptics Guide #862 - Jan 15 2022

News Items: Pig Heart Transplant, Managing the Next Pandemic, Bogus Hangover Cures, James Webb Telescope Update, Battlefield Acupuncture; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Does Smelling Equal Exposure; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Jan 15, 2022

The Skeptics Guide #861 - Jan 8 2022

Predictions for 2021 and 2022; News Items: Space Highlights for 2022, Education and the Aging Brain, Ramjet Physics, Elizabeth Holmes Guilty Verdict; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Off the Reservation; Science or Fiction

Jan 08, 2022

The Skeptics Guide #860 - Jan 1 2022

2021 Year-End Review Show; Best Science of the Year; Pseudoscience of the Year; Best SGU Segments; Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses of 2021; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction

Jan 01, 2022

The Skeptics Guide #859 - Dec 25 2021

Live from Fort Collins; Discussion: End of Civilization; News Items: Nuclear on the Moon, What Launched Video Games, Assholes More Likely to be Wrong, Vaccine Detox; The Rogues Answer Psychology Questions; Science or Fiction

Dec 25, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #858 - Dec 18 2021

What's The Word: Substrate; News Items: Storing Energy with Air and Water, Zoom Fatigue, Challenging Einstein, Webb Launching; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Dec 18, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #857 - Dec 11 2021

Holiday Pseudoscience Guide; News Items: Treating the Unvaccinated, DNA Data Storage, MLM Exploiting Women, Binge Watching, Asteroid Monitoring; Who's That Noisy; Name That Quote; Your Questions and E-mails: Blaming Parents; Science or Fiction

Dec 11, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #856 - Dec 4 2021

COVID Update: Omicron; Myths about Black Widow Spiders; News Items: Sentient Cephalopods, Self Replicating Xenobots, Pharmacists Recommending Homeopathy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: SpinLaunch Follow up; Science or Fiction

Dec 04, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #855 - Nov 27 2021

Live from Denver; Special Segment: Families, Vaccines, and Thanksgiving; News Items: Russia Shoots Down Satellite, Asteroid May Be Moon Fragment, Loss Aversion, Bank Robber Identifies After 52 Years, Alex Jones Liable in Sandy Hook Case, Spinlaunch; Science or Fiction

Nov 27, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #854 - Nov 20 2021

News Items: Kilometer Long Spaceship, Social Media and Kids, Bionic Arm, Embryo Research, Trust in Science; Quickie with Bob: Caves on Mars; Mystery Quotes; Science or Fiction

Nov 14, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #853 - Nov 13 2021

COVID Update: New Antivirals; News Items: Moon Return Delay, Brain Stimulation Treatment, Carbon to Rock, Astronaut Brain Damage; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Organic Farming; Science or Fiction

Nov 13, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #852 - Nov 6 2021

COVID Update; News Items: Organic Fail, Are Viruses Alive, Memes Ease Stress, Extragalactic Planet, Superconducting New State of Matter; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Elizabeth Bathory; Science or Fiction

Nov 06, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #851 - Oct 30 2021

What's the Word: Chirality; News Items: Creepy Parasite, Lab Grown Coffee, Organoid Research, Conspiracies and COVID, Death by Exorcism; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Peak Uranium; SGU Recommends; Science or Fiction

Oct 30, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #850 - Oct 23 2021

Interview with David Copperfield and Richard Wiseman; News Items: Pig Kidney Transplant, Scientists Abused for Discussing COVID, Synthetic Biology, AGW Consensus, Dark Skies; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Propaganda; Science or Fiction

Oct 23, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #849 - Oct 16 2021

Interview with Craig Good; News Items: Mass Extinction 30 Million Years Ago, Strange Radio Waves, Plant Molecular Farming, Neurofeedback Headbands; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Oct 16, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #848 - Oct 9 2021

Update on SGU Activities; News Items: Space Radiation Shielding, Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry; SGU Recommends: Oats Studios; Quickie with Bob - Large Comet; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Oct 09, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #847 - Oct 2 2021

Ivory Billed Woodpecker Follow Up; News Items: Gigantic Cavity in Space, Oldest Evidence of Humans in North America, Treating Heart Disease in Women, Amazon Home Robot; Name That Logical Fallacy, Your Questions and E-mails: Theranos; Science or Fiction

Oct 02, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #846 - Sep 25 2021

What's The Word: Pudendum; News Items: Whitest White, Using AI To Find New Materials, Philosophy and Science Denial, Belief in Ghosts; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: EMF Blockers; Science or Fiction

Sep 25, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #845 - Sep 18 2021

Swindler's List: Auto Warranty Robocalls; News Items: Tongue Snakeoil, Keyhole Spying, Fact Checking Misinformation, Cognitive Control and Cheating, Bringing Back the Mammoth; SGU Recommends: What If; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails

Sep 18, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #844 - Sep 11 2021

COVID Update: Mu Variant; News Items: Just Below Pricing, Magnetic Field Record, Mars Rock Sample, Getting Rid of Cash; Who's That Noisy; Your E-mails and Questions: Electric Cars; Science or Fiction

Sep 11, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #843 - Sep 4 2021

Live from NECSS 2021; Your Number's Up: Googol; News Items: Poison Frogs, Let Kid's Roam, Going Electric, Artificial Neurons, Neutron Star Mountains, Biggest Things in the Universe Don't Exist; Science or Fiction

Sep 04, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #842 - Aug 28 2021

Interview with Eugenie Scott; COVID Update: FDA Approves Pfizer Vaccine; News Items: Ant Underground Cities, Food Allergy Myths, The White Lady of Union Cemetery, Feng Shui in Australia; Who’s That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Aug 28, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #841 - Aug 21 2021

COVID Booster Shots; News Items: Philippines Approves Golden Rice, Moore's Law Beyond Silicon, Brain Organoids with Eyes, Fusion Advance; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Animals that Cook; Science or Fiction

Aug 21, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #840 - Aug 14 2021

News Items: IPCC Sixth Report, Yellowstone Myths, Mars Obstacles, Spacesuit Delay, Scamming Teens; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Meat-eating Dinosaurs; Science or Fiction

Aug 14, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #839 - Aug 7 2021

News Items: Making Hydrogen, Trouble for Self-Driving Cars, Metaverse, Olympic Medals, Olympic Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Time; Science or Fiction

Aug 07, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #838 - Jul 31 2021

COVID Update: Ivermectin and Mix and Match Vaccines; News Items: Folding Proteins, Magnet Therapy for Cancer, Galileo Project, Wing Color and Flight Efficiency, Mercola Misinformation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nuclear Power; Science or Fiction

Jul 31, 2021

The Skeptics Guide #837 - Jul 24 2021

COVID Update: Vaccine Hesitancy; News Items: Plastic Tipping Point, Balloon Telescope, AI Creativity, More Space Tourism; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Jul 24, 2021
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