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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 #986 - Jun 1 2024

Quickie with Steve: New Gene Editing Tool; News Items: 3D Printed Superalloy, Lacking an Inner Voice, Spider Silk Sensors, How Were the Pyramids Built, Exoplanet Hunt for Life; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Star Talk and Acupuncture, Science or Fiction

Jun 01, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #985 - May 25 2024

What's the Word: Zooxanthellae; News Items: Blue Origin Update, Human Predator, Escaped GMOs, Solar Storm, Crypto Astrology; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI; Science or Fiction

May 25, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #984 - May 18 2024

Update on Steorn Free Energy; News Items: Chat GPT 4o, 2023 Hottest Summer, Spotting Misinformation, AI Training Robots, Reincarnated Son of Buddha; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Protecting Bigfoot; Science or Fiction

May 18, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #983 - May 11 2024

Interview with Robert Bartholomew; News Items: Electric Propulsion, Blowing off Steam, Washington Post and Past Lives, Programmable Living Matter, Fighting Holocaust Denial; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Deep Fakes and Grief; Science or Fiction

May 11, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #982 - May 4 2024

Quickie with Bob: Horizonal Running on the Moon; News Items: Vampire Facials, Kava and Liver Toxicity, Chiropractic Strokes, Merging Lifeforms; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Rocket Lab Reusable Rockets; Science or Fiction

May 04, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #981 - Apr 27 2024

John Oliver and UFOs; News Items: Voyager Fixed, NASA's New Solar Sail, Bird Flu in Milk, Dark Energy Getting Weaker, After Death Communications; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Havana Syndrome; Science or Fiction

Apr 27, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #980 - Apr 20 2024

What's the Word: Anhedonia; News Items: New Scams, Reconductoring, ISS Space Junk, Zombie Cicadas, Death by Wellness; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail: AI Drug Development Correction; Science or Fiction

Apr 20, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #979 - Apr 13 2024

Live from Dallas with special guest Dustin Bates of Starset; Eclipse Science; News Items: AI Designed Drugs, AI Music, Music Getting Simpler, Aphantasia Spectrum, Nova and Comet Compete with Eclipse; Science or Fiction

Apr 12, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024

Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones Rooy; Quickie with Bob: Silicon Spikes; News Items: Havana Syndrome, Robo Taxis in New York, Rebellions - Cultural Memory - and Eclipses, Gravitational Waves and Human Life; Your Questions and E-mails: Evolution of Gullibility; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Apr 06, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #977 - Mar 30 2024

AI Created Music; News Items: Sweetened Drinks and Atrial Fibrillation, One Degree, Birth Control Misinformation, Iridology; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mel's Mystery Hole, Positive Thinking; Science or Fiction

Mar 30, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #976 - Mar 23 2024

Interview with Dante Lauretta of the Osiris Rex mission; Quickie With Steve: Treating HIV with CRISPR; News Items: Starship's Third Launch, Extinct Flu Virus, Keeping Voyager 1 Going, Death by Exorcism, Energy Demand Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fighting Lions; Science or Fiction

Mar 23, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #975 - Mar 16 2024

Tax Scams; News Items: Pentagon UFO Report, Microplastic Risks, Parasite Cleanse, Gut Microbe Communication, Interstellar Meteorite; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thou, Mach Effect Drive; Science or Fiction

Mar 16, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #974 - Mar 9 2024

Quickie with Bob: Colliding Neutron Stars; News Items: Sinking Cities, Hypervaccination, Conspiracy Theories and Disease X, Celebrities and Flat Earth, Superconducting Magnets and Fusion; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: IVF, Moon's Orbit; Science or Fiction

Mar 09, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #973 - Mar 2 2024

News Items: First Private Landing on the Moon, Sex Difference in the Brain, Bee Venom for Breast Cancer, Learning Empathy, Brightest Object; jWho's That Noisy; Quotation Game; Your Question and E-mails: Correction; Science or Fiction

Mar 02, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #972 - Feb 24 2024

Interview with Chris Smith from the Naked Scientists; News Items: Pesticides in Oats, AI Video, University Rankings Flawed, Mewing and Looksmaxxing, Titan Uninhabitable; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Feb 24, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #971 - Feb 17 2024

Quickie with Bob - Metalenses; News Items: Flow Batteries, Green Roofs, LEGO MRI scanner, The Future Circular Collider, Mayo Clinic and Reiki; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

Feb 17, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #970 - Feb 10 2024

What's the Word: Cardinal; News Items: New Virus-Like Microbes Found, SLIM Lunar Lander, Misinformation and Wellness Influencers, Super Earth in Habitable Zone, Climate Change and Storms; Who's That Noisy, Name That Logical Fallacy, Science or Fiction

Feb 10, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #969 - Feb 3 2024

Interview with Dustin Bates of Starset; News Items: Neuralink Implant, Love on the Brain, Amelia Earhart Plane Evidence, Hiding Sickness, Cicada Double Brood; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Moon Timeline, Long Acting Insulin; Science or Fiction

Feb 03, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #968 - Jan 27 2024

Swindler's List: Deep Fake Robot Call; News Item: Oxygen Bottleneck, NASA Opens Osiris Rex Canister, Learning and Longevity, DNA Directed Assembly, Bleach Peddler Sentenced; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nuclear Batteries; Science or Fiction

Jan 27, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #967 - Jan 20 2024

Interview with Robert Sapolsky; News Items: Betavolt 50 Year Battery, Moon Landing Delayed, Cloned Monkeys, Converting CO2 into Carbon Nanofibers, Bad Fen Shui; Who's That Noisy; From TikTok: Jellyfish UFO; Science or Fiction

Jan 20, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #966 - Jan 13 2024

Dumbest Thing of the Week; News Items: Dual Sympathetic Response, Peregrine Moon Mission, Solar Eclipse, Boy Beats Tetris; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dimensional Weight; Science or Fiction

Jan 13, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #965 - Jan 6 2024

Psychic Predictions for 2023 and Rogue Predictions for 2024; News Items: Dosing Gene Expression, Solar Tower, Alzheimer's Virus, Quark Matter, Scientology RICO; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Jan 06, 2024

The Skeptics Guide #964 - Dec 30 2023

2023 Year in Review; Best Science of the Year; Best SGU Moments; Best Interviews; Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses of the Year; In Memorium; Science or Fiction

Dec 30, 2023

The Skeptics Guide #963 - Dec 23 2023

Special Guest: Eli Bosnick; Quickie with Steve: Iron Spheres are Terrestrial; News Items: Lunar Roads, Misinformation vs Disinformation, Gravitational Waves As Fast As Light, Fluoride and IQ, Dark GPT; Skeptics and Paranormal Experiences; Science or Fiction

Dec 23, 2023

The Skeptics Guide #962 - Dec 16 2023

Interview with Jessica McCabe of How to ADHD; Special Segment: Zelle Scams; News Items: Neuromorphic Supercomputer, Sodium Ion Batteries, Lab Grown Coffee, Lunar Anthropocene; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nazi Synthetic Fuel; Who Said That; Science or Fiction

Dec 16, 2023

The Skeptics Guide #961 - Dec 9 2023

Quickie with Bob: Ceramic Storage; News Items: Quantum Gravity, X-Prize for Health Span, ECT Effects on the Brain, Building New Materials with AI and Robots; From Tik Tok: Electric Car Without Charging; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Dec 09, 2023

The Skeptics Guide #960 - Dec 2 2023

News Items: Internet Use and Mental Health, Methane Capture, Bitter Revenge, Underground Microbes, PopSci Magazine Closes; Quickie with Steve: LK-99 Debunked; Who's That Noisy, Question and E-mails: Dr. GPT; Science or Fiction

Dec 02, 2023

The Skeptics Guide #959 - Nov 25 2023

What's the Word: Rugae; News Items: 3D Printing Soft Robots, First CRISPR Treatment Approved, Omicron Update, Lunar Library; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Trust in Science, Fashion; Science or Fiction

Nov 25, 2023

The Skeptics Guide #958 - Nov 18 2023

Special Guest: George Hrab; Swindler's List: Romance Scam; News Items: Whole Eye Transplant, Hottest Year on Record, Neutron Thickness, Hydrogen Deposit in France, Trust in Science Declining; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Oldest Photo; Science or Fiction

Nov 18, 2023

The Skeptics Guide #957 - Nov 11 2023

Interview with James Burke; Dumbest Thing of the Week; News Items: ESA Plans Space Capsule, Oldest Evidence of Projective Weapons, Vaccine for Cocaine Addiction, Ancient Planet Buried in Earth's Mantle, Bankman-Fried Guilty; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

Nov 11, 2023
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