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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; DragonCon Panels: Skepticism and Gaming, Government Coverup of UAPs, Generation Ships; News Items: Augmented Reality Social Reaction, How Stars Become Magnetars, Recent Mission to the Moon, Different Types of Mass; Special Report: Global Warming Policy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Benthic vs Pelagic; News Items: Age of the Moon, CVS and Homeopathy, Black Holes Do Spin, Paranormal Investigators and Police, Human Epoch; Who's That Noisy; You Questions and E-mails: Driverless Cars, Home Air Filters; Science or Fiction
Swindler's List: The IT Scam; News Items: Driverless Cars, Dead Whale Mystery, Filtering Wildfire Air, New Law of Nature Proposed, The Real Count Dracula; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Last After the Big Bang; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dan Friesen and Jordan Holmes from the Knowledge Fight podcast; Quickie with Bob: Solar Panels at Proxima Centauri; News Items: Oldest Evidence of Humans in Americas, Addictive Foods, Using CRISPR to Make Chickens Flu Resistant, Superheavy Elements, Prehistoric Solar Storms; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nobel Peace Prize; Science or Fiction
Interview with Physicist Lars Martin; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Physics; Radio Telescope on the Moon; FEMA Alert Conspiracy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Red Dye and ADHD; Science or Fiction
Discussion about Misinformation; News Items: Zoom Backgrounds, Manifesting Fails, Tong Test of AGI, Looking for Service Worlds, NASA Recovers Asteroid Sample; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Natural Gas vs Coal; Science or Fiction
News Items: CAR-T Therapy, Martian Life, Oldest Wooden Structure, Mexican Alien Bodies, Signature of Life Found on Exoplanet; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; DragonCon 2023 Highlights; Robots of the Future; News Items: Exploding Batteries and Deorbiting Satellites, Dark Stars, AI Drone Racing, Settling Mars, Stress Patches; Science or Fiction
Interview with Anna Blakney; News Items: ChatGPT University Performance, Geothermal Energy, Failed Star, Doctor and NDEs; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live from Tucson with special guest George Hrab; Special Report: Death of P22; News Items: Toughest Metal, Eyewear from Coffee Grounds, Water Worlds, Psychic Fraud; Discussion Topic: Cancelling Celebrities; Experts Advice; Science or Fiction
News Items: Releasing Fukushima Radioactive Water, Online Gaming and Mental Health, Gradient Nanostructured Steel, Supernova and Neutrinos, Recent Lunar Missions; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Gender Affirming Care and Regret; Science or Fiction
News Items: Deep Space Network, Identifying Misinformation, Regret and Gender Affirming Care, Localizing Hidden Consciousness, Ice Baths; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Metazoan Correction; Science or Fiction
5-10 Year: Loch Ness; News Items: Depression Does Not Cause Cancer, Hidden Undersea World, AI vs Robo Calls, Cement Supercapacitor; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on EVs, RFK Jr on Tik Tok; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Mereology; News Items: Glass Coated DNA, How Deadly in Heat, Australian Psychics, Speech Deepfake,s; Special Report: Electric Vehicle Myths; Quickie with Bob: Heaviest Animal; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie With Steve: Another Alzheimer Drug; News Items: Can AI Learn Like Humans, Room Temperature Superconductor, A Galaxy Without Dark Matter, Men Convicted for Mineral Solution; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Talent vs Skill; Science or Fiction
News Items: Early Woodworking, Genetic Engineering to Fight Malaria, How We Determine What's True, Killing Bacteria, Nanopatch Pseudoscience; Your Questions and E-mails: Fishercat vs Red Fox, Thorium Reactors; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Special Guests: George Hrab and Andrea Jones Roy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Meteors and Alien Craft; News Items: Leqembi for Alzheimer's, Jeffrey Epstein Not Murdered, When Will Betelgeuse Explode, Can AI Solve Math Problems; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: The Impossible Planet; News Items: Activity Late in Life, Hominid Cannibals, Aspartame and Cancer, FAA Approves Flying Car, Neutrino Image of Galaxy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Homelessness, Titan Failure, Canadian Forests; Science or Fiction
What's The Word: Decussate; News Items: Ripples in Spacetime, Mars Simulation, Multimillion Dollar Psychic Scam, Who Is Most Susceptible to Misinformation, Malaria in Flroida; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Existential Dread; Science or Fiction
News Items: Neuroforecasting, Coastal Erosion, Milky Way's Supermassive Blackhole, Aliens in Vegas, Alcohol Use Disorder; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Latitude and Daylight, Debating RFK Jr.; Science or Fiction