The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: Recent Episodes
Dr. Steven Novella
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
Live from Christchurch with guests George Hrab, Andrea Jones-Rooy, and Brian Wecht; Special Segment: SGU Down Under; News Items: Telescope Ranch, The Fate of Earth, The Science of Community, Terraforming Mars, Fauci Under Fire, AI Satellites, AI Solves 90 Year Math Puzzle; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1100 August 1st 2026 Live from Christchurch, New Zealand Guests Andrea Jones Rooy, Brian Wecht and George Hrab Segment #1. Intro The SGU Down Under Segment #2. News Items News Item #1: Telescope Ranch https://starfront.space/ News Item #2: The Fate of Earth https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/earth-might-not-be-engulfed-by-the-sun-in-5-billion-years-after-all/ar-AA26q9TH News Item #3: The Science of Community News Item #4: Terraforming Mars https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260714225535.htm News Item #5: Fauci Under Fire https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/us/politics/fauci-in-private-diary-reflected-on-covids-origins-and-his-own-fame.html?emc=edit_ufn_20260729&nl=from-the-times&segment_id=223861 News Item #6: AI Satellites https://theness.com/neurologicablog/proposed-satellites-would-ruin-astronomy/ News Item #7: AI Solves 90 Year Math Puzzle https://mathworld.wolfram.com/JacobianConjecture.html Segment #3. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme - Science and Rock Item 1: Brian May, the guitarist of the rock band Queen, holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics and a PhD in Astrophysics, both from Imperial College London. His doctoral thesis, was titled "A survey of radial velocities in the zodiacal dust cloud." Since earning his doctorate, he has remained highly active in the scientific community, working with NASA on missions like New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx Item 2: Jerry Speiser, original drummer from Men At Work was a physics major from La Trobe University. He is currenbtly the foremost Austrailian scholar on the works of American architect and systems theorist Buckminster Fuller, whose 'generalised principles' Speiser has used to coach the likes of pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb and Melbourne software group Zero Corporation. Item 3: Tom Scholz, founder of the band Boston, is an MIT-trained engineer who designed and built his own recording studio in an apartment basement in the early 1970s. Among his many, many studio inventions was an unreleased proprietary headphone design, that he eventually sold to Noel Lee from the company Monster Cable. Monster Cable then partnered with Dr.Dre's company Beats Electronics which eventually went on to became the multi-billion dollar brand Beats by Dre. Segment #4. Skeptical Quote of the Week "It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." Ernest Rutherford
Live from CSIcon Buffalo; CSI 50th Anniversary; News Items: Artemis III Crew Announced, Sniffing Out the Spotted Lanternfly, Human Echolocation, Are Cold Stars Alien Megastructures, Ediacaran Sex; Interview with Michael Mann, Science or Fiction
Live From Madison Wisconsin; Amending the Constitution; News Items: Believing in the Supernatural, Desalinating Water, Superheavy Cosmic Rays, AI Designed Bioweapons; Science or Fiction
Live from Seattle; Theaters vs Home Streaming; News Items: The Enshittification of Academic Publishing, Ending Forever Plastic, Reanalysis of Type Ia Supernova, Manipulating Gravitational Waves; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1096 July 9th 2026 Special Guest David Kyle Johnson Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Two States of Water https://phys.org/news/2026-06-scientists-molecular-evidence-liquid.html Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Using AI To Detect AI Cheating https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01358-2 News Item #2 – Teens Using AI Chatbots https://neurosciencenews.com/ai-chatbots-teen-relational-displacement-30971/ News Item #3 – NYT Article on Rapid Prompting Method https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/nyt-article-on-rapid-prompting-method/ News Item #4 – SETI Partly Explains Fermi https://www.iflscience.com/seti-may-have-figured-out-why-we-havent-detected-any-alien-signals-yet-explaining-at-least-part-of-the-infamous-fermi-paradox-83897 Segment #3. Skeptical Philosophy What is "Falsifiability" Segment #4. Who's That Noisy Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: An analysis of the scat of the California Gray Wolf finds a significant contribution of domesticated pets in their diet. Item 2: A recent study finds that individual human neurons have significantly more computational information than rat neurons, which is likely one mechanism for increased human intelligence. Item 3: A new analysis finds that a bilaterally symmetrical species from the Ediacaran fauna shows signs of "handedness", or one-sided preference. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated." – Poul Anderson
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1095 July 2nd 2026 Segment #1. Back to Basics What Is Scientific Skepticism I'm a long-time listener to your podcast, and I always listen to you when I commute to and from work - which is about a 45-minute drive in each direction. I believe I have a fairly good understanding of the scientific method, and I do believe I understand, and practice, a skeptical view of things regularly in life. I work as a correctional officer, and I find the skeptical principle very useful when I deal with inmates' often strongly biased views on many topics. I have recommended the show to a lot of friends and co-workers, and many have followed those recommendations. But, and this is the main point of this letter, I feel that many simply don't understand the basic concepts, the very foundation, of what you're doing. Terms like skepticism and your adherence to concepts like the scientific method are not that widely known, and I believe that could be easily remedied. I would suggest that you every now and then take some time on the show to explain these basic concepts to retain any new listeners, to make them up to speed with what the show is really about. I am aware of your recurring segment on cognitive bias, logical fallacies and the like (and I do appreciate it). But I feel those discussions require knowledge of the more basic concepts - which I find mostly omitted. I strongly believe your work is extremely important, probably more so in our bubble-ridden, AI-advised, TikTok-brainrot present. Especially, I'd guess, for U.S. listeners given the almost oppressive stance from your government on science in general. With that said, thank you so much for your hard work! When writing this I noticed I wasn't a Patreon member. So I remedied that. I can't access my private e-mail account from work, so I can't start a paid membership right now. I will though, as soon as my job stint is up this weekend. Best regards, Fredrik Granlund, Sweden Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Synthetic Cell https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/science/spud-cell-what-to-know.html News Item #2 – Trust in Science https://theness.com/neurologicablog/how-the-brain-pays-attention/ News Item #3 – Geothermal Update https://theness.com/neurologicablog/where-are-we-with-geothermal/ News Item #4 – Solar Corona Heating https://phys.org/news/2026-07-cosmic-play-key-role-mystery.html Segment #3. Quickie with Cara Radiation Eating Fungus https://www.sciencealert.com/this-chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability Segment #4. Who's That Noisy Segment #5. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Responses to Evan Segment #6. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: American History Item 1: George Washington, while a lieutenant colonel in the Virginia militia, committed an epic blunder which was responsible for starting the French and Indian War. Item 2: During part of the Revolutionary War, Abigail Adams was a spy for the Continental Congress, engaging in espionage to gather intelligence and plant misinformation. Item 3: Thomas Jefferson popularized Macaroni and Cheese in America, and even designed his own pasta-making machine. Segment #7. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Asking the right questions is as important as answering them." – Benoit Mandelbrot
Evan Leaves SGU; News Items: Paying attention, How Queen Bees are Made, Canceling Wind, Goodbye International Space Station, US Military Restores Flu Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1093 June 17th 2026 Segment #1. SGU Down Under https://www.theskepticsguide.org/events Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Donut Lab Battery Followup https://theness.com/neurologicablog/donut-lab-claims-looking-like-fraud/ News Item #2 – Fungal Superhighway https://data.lib.vt.edu/articles/dataset/Range_of_Detection/30984718 News Item #3 – Echochambers https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2026.2671765#abstract News Item #4 – Payam Method https://www.cbsnews.com/news/payam-method-piano-lessons-60-minutes/ News Item #5 – Strength Training and Longevity https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260611024609.htm Segment #3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. ADIct Agree-Disagree-It's complicated Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: Researchers have developed a synthetic fabric that is highly insulating in cold temperatures, but is heat releasing at room temperature or warmer. Item 2: A new study finds that female chickadees preferentially mate with more intelligent males. Item 3: Neuroscientists at the University of Michigan have demonstrated an implantable wireless brain-computer interface that allows subjects with aphasia due to damage to their speech areas regain functional speech. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Quickie with Steve: Ebola Update; News Items: Ben Franklin's Anti-Counterfeiting Innovations, Mars Maven, Human Cooperation, Pre Cambrian Animal Senses, Peudoscience Protection Bill; Your Questions and E-mails: Sucking, Audio Cables; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Christian Hubicki; Quickie with Bob: Meteor over New England; News Items: While House Proposal on Science Funding, Medical Aid in Dying, AI Attention, Expensive Audio Cables; The Science of Survivor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
I Learned Today: How Toilets Flush; News Items: Autism Clinics, Errors in Climate Change Database, Weekly Exercise, Why Birds Fear Women, Latest Ebola Outbreak; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Sleep and Aging, Mental Number Maps, Digital Privacy, ArXiv Bans AI Produced Work, T-Rex Leather; Who's That Noisy; Obsoletely; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1088 May 14th 2026 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – The Interstitium and Acupuncture https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/nyt-epic-fail-on-acupuncture/ News Item #2 – Climate Change Food Insecurity https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/food-insecurity-is-no-longer-just-about-low-income-countries-environmental-economist-explains-how-climate-change-is-pushing-agricultural-systems-to-the-brink News Item #3 – Neanderthal Dentistry https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/neanderthals/exceptional-drilled-tooth-reveals-neanderthals-practiced-dentistry-in-siberia-60-000-years-ago News Item #4 – Tiny Robots https://scitechdaily.com/these-tiny-robots-50x-smaller-than-a-hair-can-hunt-and-move-bacteria/ News Item #5 – More UFO Nonsense https://theness.com/neurologicablog/pentagon-releases-more-boring-ufo-videos/ Segment 2. Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Lots of AI Consciousness Feedback Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Ancient Medicine Item 1: The earliest direct evidence for suturing of wounds dates back 12,000 years in Gobekli Tepe in the region of modern-day Turkey. Item 2: Scientists have reported evidence for a successful surgical amputation of a lower limb 31,000 years ago, with the individual surviving at least 6-9 years afterward. Item 3: As early as 1,000 BCE, Indian and other ancient cultures used ant jaws as surgical staples to close wounds, allowing live ants to bite the wound edges. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men." - Henry David Thoreau
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1087 May 7th 2026 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Exotic Matter https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260504154014.htm Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – When Are Screening Tests Necessary https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/health/older-colonoscopy-screenings-treatments.html News Item #2 – Dawkins Writes LLMs Are Conscious https://theness.com/neurologicablog/richard-dawkins-discovers-ai-and-philosophy/ News Item #3 – Iron Flow Battery https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/New-Chinese-Iron-Battery-Lasts-16-Years.html News Item #4 – Haunting with Friends https://phys.org/news/2026-04-good-spirits-houses.html Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Interview with David Kyle Johnson Expertise vs Authority Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: Observing a recent volcanic eruption, scientists discover a potential method for reducing atmospheric methane involving volcanic ash and seawater. Item 2: Scientists present a design for pure-copper 3D-printable cold plates that, under modeled conditions, could reduce data-center cooling energy use to about 1.1% of total energy consumption, compared with more than 30% in conventional air-cooled designs. Item 3: In a recent extensive survey of Arctic fish, researchers found the first example of a fish, the snailfish, that is able to use its tailfin for backward propulsion. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Outside of their particular area of expertise scientists are just as dumb as the next person." Richard P. Feynman
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1086 April 30th 2026 Segment #1. Back To Basics Pareidolia and Apophenia Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Smart Watch Health Metrics Errors https://www.sciencealert.com/your-smartwatch-may-be-getting-6-key-health-metrics-wrong News Item #2 – Space Debris Hitting the Moon https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/a-stray-spacex-rocket-stage-could-slam-into-the-moon-this-august-amateur-astronomer-says News Item #3 – Evolving AI https://theness.com/neurologicablog/evolving-ai/ News Item #4 – Merging Quazars https://phys.org/news/2026-04-blazing-quasars-caught-waltzing-merger.html News Item #5 – Longevity Escape Velocity https://www.yahoo.com/news/tech/science/articles/scientist-says-humans-backwards-time-165551116.html Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Stem Cell Hype Hello SGU, I'm a faculty member at the University of Colorado-Anschutz. I'm a new recruit starting my lab 2 years ago. I have been listening to the SGU since 2011 when I was a young technician, and through graduate school and postdoctoral training in stem and developmental biology. My expertise is in stem cell biology and reproductive biology, and my lab generates in vitro models of placental and embryonic development. We study the process of implantation and early placental development. My lab's mission and the goal of my career is to cure preeclampsia with my research. Listening to your show just now on the way to lab, I could not keep myself from shouting "NO YOU ARE WRONG!" in my car like an insane person when Steve said that we're "25-30 years after the stem cell hype, and not that we haven't made a lot of progress in stem cell research, but we don't have ANY of the promised breakthroughs- medical miracles that people were talking about in 2001...." Many embryonic stem cell therapies are currently being developed and are in late stage clinical trials for diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Epilepsy, Type I diabetes, and macular degeneration. The results of these new technologies so far are amazing to say the least! It is too much to write or describe, so I will point you to this official response from the International Society for Stem Cell Research to the request for information released by the NIH regarding continued funding for embryonic stem cell research. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/611faaa8fee682525ee16489/t/69ebb23d15e048446a9b918f/1777054271782/ISSCR_NIH_NOT-OD-26-031_hESC_RFI_signaturecopy.pdf Please read the section on page 7 regarding the latest data from clinical trials with relevant citations. Currently, hESC research is under threat of being defunded by this NIH administration, and opinions like Steve's are exactly what will kill funding and developing the medicine of the future. Dr. Rowan Karvas University of Colorado- Anschutz Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Canada Item 1: Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Item 2: Although the Aztecs ground peanuts into paste, the first modern patent for doing so was held by Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, which is why Canadians consider him the inventor of peanut butter. Item 3: While it maintains a symbolic connection to British royalty, Canada became fully constitutionally independent in 1867, almost a century after the US. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Do not confine your children to your own learning for they were born in another time." Rabindranath Tagore, first Asian recipient of a Nobel Prize (literature 1913)
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1085 April 23rd 2026 Segment #1. What's the Word Cryptomnesia Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Belief in Unproven Health Claims https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01285-2 News Item #2 – Regenerating Limbs https://theness.com/neurologicablog/the-prospect-of-regenerating-limbs/ News Item #3 – Suicide Hotline Seems to Work https://www.sciencenews.org/article/suicide-lifeline-988-teens-young-adults News Item #4 – Why Is Rubber So Strong https://scitechdaily.com/what-makes-rubber-so-strong-scientists-finally-solve-100-year-old-mystery/ Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Mythos Follow Up Question #2: American knowledge of Mexico The very brief comment about not knowing there is a place in Mexico called Chihuahua (a city and a state that borders Texas. Famously Juarez is in that state) brought to my attention a subject that I find interesting and frustrating. Having lived in Mexico for most of my life, I noticed how American media (movies, shows, news) tend to completely ignore Mexico. It's also very striking the level of ignorance in America regarding Mexico. Simple stuff, like the capital, population, size, political system, etc. Despite there being a very large Mexican population in the U.S. I don't know if this is a subject for the SGU, but I feel like there is something there regarding education and how media affects a person's worldview. Keep up the good work! Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Black Holes Item 1: Einstein predicted the existence of singularities (only later called black holes), but the first one was not identified until 1971, sixteen years after his death. Item 2: Astronomers estimate that there are about 100 million stellar mass black holes in the Milky Way galaxy, but only about 100 have been confirmed. Item 3: Only two black holes have ever been directly imaged: Sagittarius A at the center of our own galaxy, and M87, the largest known black hole at 6.5 billion solar masses. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds-and fanatics. It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal." - Cassius J. Keyser
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1084 April 16th 2026 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Artemis Recap https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-welcomes-record-setting-artemis-ii-moonfarers-back-to-earth/ News Item #2 – AI Biology Research https://theconversation.com/ai-can-design-and-run-thousands-of-lab-experiments-without-human-hands-humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-new-risks-this-brings-to-biology-279191 News Item #3 – AI Security Disruption https://theness.com/neurologicablog/ai-may-disrupt-the-internet/ News Item #4 – Superconductivity Breakthrough https://phys.org/news/2026-04-scientists-capture-superconductivity-pairs-revealing.html News Item #5 – Red Light Therapy https://www.gq.com/story/the-skeptics-guide-to-red-light-therapy-4 Segment 2. Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Corrections Mach speed Question #2: Missing or Dead Scientists The talk around my Tuesday morning pickleball games often revolves around conspiracy theories (aliens on earth, UFO talk, etc). I haven't seen concrete evidence to take any of this seriously, although any help from aliens would be welcome. This week the discussion was around the missing or strange deaths of US scientists tied to NASA JPL or nuclear/space departments. A 9th scientist was just announced who passed a few years ago. I've seen reporting from the Daily Mail and most recently this week on Fox News. My Skeptical antennas are raised; however, the numbers do seem higher than coincidence. Would love to get your take, as this subject touches on both science and critical thinking regarding conspiracy theories. Love your work, thanks for all you do! Adam Pesche (pronounced like Joe) Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: A comprehensive review finds that stingers, horns, and teeth across a broad swath of the plant and animal kingdoms share a similar shape largely due to remarkable convergent evolution. Item 2: A new technique can simultaneously improve the strength and ductility of titanium alloys in just milliseconds, using less than 50% of the energy of heat treating. Item 3: Researchers have put the final nail in the coffin of MOND by demonstrating stable gravitational force laws at vast intergalactic distances. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "We will explore. We will build ships. We will visit again. We will construct science outposts. We will inspire—but ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other." - Christina Koch, Artemis II astronaut
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1083 April 9th 2026 Segment #1. Dumbest Thing of the Week https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/04/03/fema-offical-teleportation-waffle-house/1731775261629/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Artemis II Heat Shield https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/theres-an-issue-with-the-artemis-ii-heat-shield-but-nasa-isnt-worried-heres-why News Item #2 – Fairness in the Brain https://neurosciencenews.com/ethics-fairness-brain-imaging-30470/ News Item #3 – Genetic Engineering Humans https://theness.com/neurologicablog/are-genetically-engineered-humans-coming/ News Item #4 – Self-Healing Composite https://newatlas.com/materials/self-healing-fiber-reinforced-polymer/ Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: Despite diverging over 600 million years ago, before the evolution of eyes, insect and mammal vision not only use the same protein family, opsins, but tune their red color sensitivity at the same exact amino acid location. Item 2: A new study finds that a single nucleotide change in a non-coding regulatory region was able to cause XX mice to develop as fully male. Item 3: Researchers describe the oldest fossil egg of an early mammal relative, Lystrosaurus, indicating they laid small hard-shelled eggs and likely fed their young through lactation. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole." ― Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1082 April 2nd 2026 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Antiproton Trap https://www.techspot.com/news/111845-cern-scientists-successfully-turned-antiproton-trap-moving-appliance.html Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Artemis II Launches https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/liftoff-nasa-launches-astronauts-on-historic-artemis-moon-mission/ News Item #2 – Can AI Predict Science Replication https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/science/ai-experiments-replication.html News Item #3 – Smart Drugs https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/smart-drugs-are-here/ News Item #4 – Nuclear Electric Propulsion https://aviationweek.com/space/launch-vehicles-propulsion/nasa-aims-demonstrate-nuclear-electric-propulsion-late-2028 News Item #5 – Underwater Fairy Circles https://www.ecoticias.com/en/they-are-called-donuts-and-look-like-fairy-circles-underwater-but-science-is-baffled-because-no-one-yet-knows-what-mechanism-draws-these-perfect-giant-rings-on-the-seabed-off-the-co/30064/ Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Name That Logical Fallacy An addicted listener since 2006 and Patreon supporter for many years. Your recent discussion about Lyme disease reminded that I've often thought that I don't know a handy term to cover common cases that seem to have a lot in common with what in formal logic is called "undistributed middle term"—namely the conclusion that shared properties argue for a strong link, even a shared identity. When there is sequence, we have "post hoc". Some cases are "pareidolia". Some cases of "Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy" seem close. Is there a more general informal term, though, one that would help explain, for example, a lot of conspiracy theories? For example: The Elders of Zion hold secret meetings; these power figures are holding secret meetings, Therefore… etc. Theo Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Corals Item 1: Corals are actually colonies of tiny animals known as polyps, each of which is similar to and closely related to jellies. Item 2: Some living corals today grow on reef structures that have persisted for over 400,000 years. Item 3: Corals get their nutrients from a combination of symbiotic algae (autotrophic) and feeding (heterotrophic), with different species varying from 100% autotrophic to 100% heterotrophic, and everything in between. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." - John Kennedy, Sept 12, 1962,
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1081 March 26th 2026 Segment #1. Back to Basics Confirmation Bias Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – NASA Announces New Moon Plans https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/nasa-announces-near-impossible-space-plans-including-usd20b-moon-base-and-humanitys-first-nuclear-powered-interplanetary-spacecraft News Item #2 – The Limits of Cloning https://www.sciencealert.com/dead-end-radical-20-year-study-reveals-genetic-cloning-hits-a-limit News Item #3 – Giant Insects https://phys.org/news/2026-03-massive-insect-body-size-million.html News Item #4 – Pushing Exorcism https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/exorcists-urge-pope-to-appoint-trained-practitioners-in-every-diocese News Item #5 – Update on 3I/Atlas https://theness.com/neurologicablog/what-happened-to-comet-3i-atlas/ Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Global Nutrition Item 1: About half of all deaths of children under 5 are linked to malnutrition. Item 2: The most prevalent micronutrient deficiency globally is Vitamin A. Item 3: According to recent data, current fortification programs prevent 7 billion nutritional deficiencies per year. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Doubt everything, roughly, although most people know his most famous second saying, cogito ergo sum, the first was to doubt everything, of which he couldn't doubt he was doubting, hence, I think, therefore I am. The cartesian coordinate system was named after him, a true polymath of his time." - De omnibus dubitandum - Renee Descartes
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1080 March 19th 2026 Segment #1. Special Segment Conspiracy Teacher Update Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Cannabis Review https://www.sciencealert.com/large-medical-cannabis-review-finds-scarce-evidence-it-treats-mental-health-disorders News Item #2 – AI Agent Breaks Out Of Testing Environment https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/an-experimental-ai-agent-broke-out-of-its-testing-environment-and-mined-crypto-without-permission News Item #3 – Life on Exomoons https://theness.com/neurologicablog/life-on-exomoons/ News Item #4 – Strongest Carbon Fiber https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-mass-produces-worlds-strongest-carbon-fiber News Item #5 – Bigfoot Hoax Revealed https://people.com/famous-1967-bigfoot-film-was-staged-says-director-of-new-doc-11926085 Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment 4. Interview with Kristian Andersen https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/andersen/ Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: The largest and most recent survey on the topic in the UK finds that nearly 1 million people had their drinks spiked in the previous year. Item 2: Researchers demonstrate that humans can be sexually aroused by some of the mating calls of non-human animals. Item 3: Neuroscientists find that they can make people more hypocritical (less morally consistent) by modulating a specific part of the brain. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "The truth will prevail in the end. Nonsense will fall of its own weight, by a sort of intellectual law of gravitation." Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, the female astronomer, born in 1900 who in 1925 discovered what stars are made of: hydrogen, helium, and just a dash of nearly every other element.
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1079 March 12th 2026 Segment #1. Back to Basics Fundamental Attribution Error Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Improved Photosynthesis https://theness.com/neurologicablog/improved-photosynthesis/ News Item #2 – Birth of a Magnetar https://phys.org/news/2026-03-astronomers-capture-birth-magnetar-link.html News Item #3 – US Bioweapons Research https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/declassified-documents-link-u.s.-bioweapons-program-to-lyme-disease-outbreak-5c74964b News Item #4 – False Health Information from Chatbots https://www.livescience.com/health/rectal-garlic-insertion-for-immune-support-medical-chatbots-confidently-give-disastrously-misguided-advice-experts-say Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Consistency Good day, I said GOOD DAY! I have to preface this by saying I started listening at episode one, am at episode 1000 currently, and haven't listened to anything past that. In aforementioned episode, Steve was talking about climate change, and made a point of saying the oil companies "research" didn't look at 30 year trends, so their data was incomplete. In the next breath, he says that "the last 10 years have been the hottest in recorded history". How is that not picking and choosing? Also, what logical fallacy would "picking and choosing" be? I agree 100% that climate change is real, and man made. I'm just curious as to why one is fine, and the other not. Also, George made a point of saying something to the effect that, and I apologize for not remembering the exact topic, maybe it was alternative medicine, if you have to re brand, or rename your chosen topic, then you know it's bullshit. But we've gone from "global warming", to "climate change", and multiple other terms for the problem. I'm just trying to understand the difference between, what appears to me to be, identical tactics. I get one has empirical data backing it, and the other doesn't. Which is perfectly fine for me. It's just the examples listed seem hypocritical. I was raised Jehovah's Witness, so thank you for helping me sharpen my mind, and start seeing all the bullshit in the world around me, Joel. P.S. hopefully I'll get to episode 8000 or whatever y'all are at, soon. It was pretty funny listening to conversations on how bad it may be if Trump gets elected in 2016, and again in 2024, knowing how bad it really is currently. Poor Jay. Joel, Austin TX Segment #4. Name That Logical Fallacy I don't know if you guys are aware of Clint Laidlaw, an evolutionary biologist who runs the Clint's Reptiles YouTube channel. I enjoy his videos, most of which are about modern cladistic taxonomy, sometimes about wild reptiles as well as reptiles as pets, and once in a while about reacting to creationist talking points. Clint does, I think, a great job when he addresses these, and one thing he talks about doing, and to my mind seems to do, is steel man the arguments from the other side before explaining why they're just wrong. In a recent one of these videos Clint for some reason showed a clip of Charlie Kirk debating a college student in one of his campus events. It wasn't about creationism and Clint wasn't arguing against him, he was saying Kirk was an example of good argumentation because he steel manned the students argument and was nice to him. I'm not sure this is really a logical fallacy. When Kirk makes his point, he clearly just has some unstated major premises that are false, but I'm curious if there is a fallacy as well, or a better way to describe what he does. It seems to me Kirk is ambushing the kid. Using an apparent steel man and kindness to put him off guard, before he makes an argument that the kid isn't ready to confront. Did Kirk build a steel man of the kid's argument, or really just oversimplify it so that his argument looked like it falsified it? He certainly was dishonest (the stats he cites are simply wrong), but I'm curious on your take on this, if it's something you're interested in. Maybe it's just my personal bias against Kirk that made this put me off. Here's the link with timestamp: https://youtu.be/wO2qV3HEP04?t=1664 Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: A study of spousal bereavement in Japan finds that widowers have an increased risk of dementia and mortality, while widows do not and, in fact, have increased happiness and life satisfaction long term. Item 2: A recent study of patients taking a GLP-1 drug to treat obesity found that, after stopping treatment, more than half gained back more than half of the weight they lost within a year. Item 3: Researchers have developed a technique for making brains in living mice transparent so that the deep layers can be imaged with fluorescence imaging with minimal affect on brain function. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Facts alone, no matter how numerous or verifiable, do not automatically arrange themselves into an intelligible, or truthful, picture of the world. It is the task of the human mind to invent a theoretical framework to account for them." - Francis Bello, prominent American science writer and editor known for his work at Fortune (1945–1960) and Scientific American (1960–1982), where he specialized in molecular biology and high-energy physics.
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1078 March 5th 2026 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob The Thatcher Effect https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-thatcher-effect-and-why-is-it-so-terrifying-and-cool-82628 Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Lunar Chickpeas https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-grew-chickpeas-in-moon-dirt/ News Item #2 – Sea Level Rise https://www.sciencenews.org/article/studies-missed-sea-level-rise-oceans News Item #3 – Latest Study Shows Reiki Does Not Work https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965229925001542 News Item #4 – Brain Cells Playing Doom https://www.iflscience.com/they-are-learning-cortical-labs-makes-200000-living-human-brain-cells-play-doom-82732 Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Glyphosate Safety Could you do an update on the status of glyphosate/Roundup safety? I recall you were previously mostly positive to it and skeptical to the claims of its dangers. I was therefore surprised by [this episode] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ) of Veritasium (which I generally consider to be trustworthy), repeating both the carcinogenicity claims and the claims about Monsanto's seed practices (which you have to some level defended as well, if I remember correctly). Perhaps most importantly, they claim (with some evidence) that the most important paper showing glyphosate safety was ghost-written by Monsanto employees I expected you to react to the episode, but then forgot about it. However, now I have listened to this episode of Science Friday, which repeats the claim that the Williams, Kroes & Munro paper has been ghost-written by Monsanto. It would be nice to have your opinion on the current status. Best regards, Michal Kaut Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Medieval Times Item 1: It was standard practice to dispose of waste in the streets or in piles of hay, with the first municipal sanitation systems or regulations not appearing in Europe until the Renaissance. Item 2: Chronic infestation with fleas and lice was more the norm than the exception, and was considered just a part of daily life. Item 3: It was a common and widespread practice to divide sleep into two shifts, first sleep and second sleep, with 1-3 hours of activity in between, the practice not ending until the industrial revolution. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science." -Carl Sagan
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1077 February 26th 2026 Segment #1. Swindler's List Tax Fraud Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Universal Nasal Respiratory Vaccine https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/universal-nasal-spray-vaccine-protects-against-viruses-bacteria-and-allergens-in-mice News Item #2 – Origins of COVID https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00530-y News Item #3 – Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-tech-nuclear-waste-into-power News Item #4 – Birding Brain Boost https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/birdwatching-birding-brain-boost-cognition-research-rcna259945 Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Starting a Skeptical Group I've been a follower of your podcast since the very early days. I really admire what you do and how you increase scientific awareness. My views have always been scientific but your show has really help stir me into a positive direction. I try to be as skeptical as I can with things, I often listen to things I don't agree with (Matt Walsh, Alex Jones etc) to get an idea of what they are saying then try to use my skeptical skills to figure out the truth which is often in the middle. However, I do feel very must alone. Most of my friends are either left or right wing and I never discuss politics or complex issues with them as I value their friendship over who voted for who. I checked for local skeptical groups but there isn't any near me and I'd have to travel some way which isn't really convenient. A thought struck me that I could start my own group? Nothing big, just a place people can go to discuss things. How would I go about doing that and I guess more important, how much work is that? I can't imagine how much time and energy you all put into things you do but I don't think I'd have time to do this as a full time thing? Matt UK Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Vaccines Item 1: Despite the claims of antivaxxers, no vaccines sold in the US are made using human fetal cells. Item 2: The WHO estimates that about 50% of vaccine doses are wasted each year due to spoilage. Item 3: The first known inoculation preceded the first vaccination by over 700 years. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve." ROGER LEWIN, Ph.D., British anthropologist and science writer (co-wrote 3 books with Richard Leakey)
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1076 February 19th 2026 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Gene That Provides Resistance for Bananas https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260219040749.htm News Item #2 – Drug Advertising https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/health/drug-advertisements-consumers.html News Item #3 – AI Powered Prosthetics https://theness.com/neurologicablog/the-future-of-ai-powered-prosthetics/ News Item #4 – Laser Written Glass Storage https://www.keybiscayneportal.com/news/national/laser-written-glass-can-store-data-for-millennia-microsoft-says/article_00977cca-283e-52ba-b49a-047b682d49bd.html News Item #5 – UFO Balloons https://www.twz.com/air/f-16s-find-balloons-not-ufos-after-sunday-scramble-norad Segment 2. Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Mental Illness and Culpability Hey y'all. Since there is both a neurologist and a psychologist on the show, I figured you would be a good place to ask this. If you didn't see the entertainment news, Kanye West recently put out an open letter apologizing for his past behavior and explaining it as a manifestation of untreated bipolar disorder. This opened up a chain of comments on Reddit dismissing it by saying "bigotry is learned, it's not a side effect of mental illness". Others would try to explain that they witnessed people in their own lives slip into destructive chains of thought due to mental illnesses like bipolar disorder. A similar thing happens when it comes to dementia or drug/alcohol intoxication. People say things like "alcohol only reveals a person's true thoughts", as if it's some kind of truth serum. People with dementia can suffer dramatic personality changes, including developing bigoted views they never held before, at least openly. I feel like this idea is misguided. My understanding of modern neuropsychology is that we are ALL awash with intrusive thoughts or flashes of ideas that go against our values, but those with a healthy mind and psyche are able to quash them before they take root, sometimes before we're even aware of them. And yes, while disinhibition can sometimes reveal thoughts we hold true but seek to suppress, I feel like there's a point where it's just plain delusion and not an automatic representation of who we are and what we stand for. What are your thoughts on this? I imagine the full explanation is complex and situational, and I'd love to hear more. Derick Segment #4. Name That Logical Fallacy I've been listening to the show for about 7 years, this is my first time writing in! Your discussion of motivated reasoning last week reminded me of a situation I found myself in a while ago, and I'd be interested to hear an experienced skeptic's take on it. I was playing a game of cribbage with my sister, and a situation arose where the rules were unclear, and a "discussion" broke out about whether or not I had legally scored two points. The details are unimportant, but the discussion took an interesting turn, and I'm wondering about which particular fallacy was at play, if one was even present at all. The discussion proceeded as follows: I laid out my arguments, then my sister laid out hers, then several bystanders (who were functioning as a makeshift jury) contributed opinions. The crux of the discussion came when my mother declared that if roles were reversed, I would be arguing for the other side. I admitted that yes, I was indeed playing lawyer. Because of my admission, the jury declared my reasoning invalid, and ruled in my sister's favor. Clearly, both my sister and I could be accused of motivated reasoning, but I'm more interested in which fallacy the jury committed. It seems to me that the jury cannot rightfully dismiss an argument solely due to the fact that it came from a biased source. Having a biased source should be a warning flag to apply extra scrutiny, but the argument still ought to be ultimately judged on its merits. My best guess is that this is some sort of ad hominem? Anyway, love the show, thank you for all that you do! Best, Hendrik Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Biology Item 1: A new study finds that living at high altitude significantly reduces the risk for diabetes. Item 2: Researchers demonstrate that mouse-derived brain organoids are able to learn and remember tasks often used to train AI, using reinforcement learning. Item 3: A recent review of research finds that animal behavior, such as vigilance and foraging, has a variable response to interactions with humans, with fear-driven behavior increasing, changing little, or even decreasing. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Astrology is a disease, not a science. It is a tree under the shadow of which all sorts of superstitions thrive. Only fools and charlatans lend value to it." Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides (1138–1204), philosopher, jurist, and physician of the Middle Ages, authored ten influential medical works covering topics like asthma, diabetes, and hygiene. A practitioner of the "natural sciences" who championed empirical observation over blind reliance on ancient authority.
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1075 February 12th 2026 Guest Rogue Parrish Knight Segment #1. Quickie with Evan Erich von Däniken dies at 90 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/obituaries/erich-von-daniken-dead.html Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Review of ADHD Treatment https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260208233825.htm https://ebiadhd-database.org News Item #2 – Religious Nones https://phys.org/news/2026-02-god-believing-nones-align-religious.html News Item #3 – EPA Ends Endangerment Finding https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/trump-epa-greenhouse-gases-climate-change.html News Item #4 – The Physics of the Quintuple Jump https://www.reuters.com/sports/figure-skating-american-skater-malinin-teases-quintuple-jump-milano-games-2026-02-03/ News Item #5 – Crotchgate https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/article/crotch-gate-the-biggest-controversy-heading-into-the-winter-olympics-involves--ski-jumping-003557536.html Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Corrections More yellow sun Question #2: Turkey Illusion Ran across this 'cognitive bias' while exploring impacts and trends in AI: "Turkey Illusion was first introduced by Bertrand Russell to illustrate a problem with inductive reasoning." - Never heard of this cognitive bias before; wondered if you guys had any thoughts... "Turkey illusion is a cognitive bias describing the surprise resulting from a break in a trend, if one does not know the causes or the framework conditions for this trend/" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_illusion "Interpretation: The slaughter comes as a complete surprise to the turkey, who - in anthropomorphic formulation - "only extrapolates a trend" and "does not recognize the impending trend break". To recognize this trend break, the turkey would have had to find out the causes of the trend. By doing so, it would have known about the motivational state of the human who feeds it every day. In order to "think outside the box" and leave known or familiar thought patterns, creativity and the ability to change perspectives are necessary. This was not possible for the turkey due to insufficient information. Here's the 'AI Singularity' post quantifying a timeline and impacts of AI and society: https://campedersen.com/singularity Interesting, and self-aware enough to make it fun... - Jeffrey, Columbus, Ohio. LOOooong time listener and supporter! Keep it up! Love you guys! Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Astronomy Item 1: Astronomers have confirmed for the first time the presence of a lava tube on Venus. Item 2: Astronomers have observed the quiet collapse of a supergiant star into a blackhole, without first going supernova. Item 3: Exoplanet hunters have described a rare "inside out" stellar system, with four gas giants close to their parent star and four rocky worlds further out. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "The most difficult time to be skeptical is when we want, or don't want, to believe. It all comes down to how willing we are to be honest with ourselves." Melanie Trecek-King
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1074 February 5th 2026 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Death of 8K TVs https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/lg-joins-the-rest-of-the-world-accepts-that-people-dont-want-8k-tvs/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Faith-Based Addiction Programs https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/health/hhs-rfk-faith-based-addiction-programs.html News Item #2 – Noise and Sleep https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sleep/zsag001/8452884 News Item #3 – A Fully Renewable Grid https://theness.com/neurologicablog/a-fully-renewable-grid/ News Item #4 – Moltbook for AI Agents Only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moltbook Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Corrections Apollo 8 The yellow sun Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: A new study by dream researchers demonstrates the ability to solve puzzles during REM sleep. Item 2: An international team of researchers have proposed that the Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its core, but instead has a compact object made of dark matter. Item 3: Scientists have presented evidence for the first time that suggests that chimpanzees are able to imagine pretend objects. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Technology is a tool, but its impact depends on how we use it for the betterment of society." Margaret Hamilton, computer scientist, credited with coining the term "software engineering"
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1073 January 29th 2026 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Artemis Getting Ready for Launch https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/artemis-2-astronauts-enter-quarantine-ahead-of-historic-nasa-moon-launch News Item #2 – New Extinct Branch of Life https://phys.org/news/2026-01-scientists-extinct-life.html News Item #3 – Why We Need Wikipedia https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00074-1 News Item #4 – Ideological Bias in Research https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz7173 News Item #5 – Expanding the Habitable Zone https://theness.com/neurologicablog/rethinking-the-habitable-zone/ Segment 2. Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Kesterite Solar Panels Message: Here is the video I watched about kesterite solar panels. Kesterite does not contain lead and is very durable, unlike perovskite. Scientists studying kesterite have modeled a possible 33.56% efficiency. Obviously that is just a model, but it looks promising. Matt Ferrell does some pretty well researched videos on technology. https://youtu.be/F_OPrOpccJs?si=Rrnm81gS9YG1nKzK Brian Cumming GA Notes: copper, zinc, tin, sulfur. Study – stable with 3 months of sun exposure. Theoretical 33.5% efficiency Highest actual efficiency in the lab – 14.3% Defects in crystal lattice Segment #4. From Tik Tok Coincidence? https://www.tiktok.com/@knightfallenangel/video/7599671324679671071 Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: A comparison between in-person and virtual jury deliberations found no significant differences in attentiveness, engagement, fair-mindedness, or outcomes. Item 2: Engineers have demonstrated a self-powered nanocomposite material that detects and wirelessly reports crack formation without the need for any external power. Item 3: A new study finds that since 2020 the ozone layer, which had been recovering since the 1990s, has slightly reversed this trend and is once again being depleted. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "A mind not wholly wishful to reach the truth, or to rest in it or obey it when found, is to that extent a mind impervious to truth an incapable of unbiased belief." William Leslie Davidson - (1848–1929) Scottish philosopher
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1072 January 22nd 2026 Segment #1. What's the Word Culture Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Increasing Lifespan https://www.livescience.com/health/tiny-improvements-in-sleep-nutrition-and-exercise-could-significantly-extend-lifespan-study-suggests News Item #2 – AI 2027 https://theness.com/neurologicablog/the-ai-2027-scenario/ News Item #3 – Deep Reading https://theconversation.com/deep-reading-can-boost-your-critical-thinking-and-help-you-resist-misinformation-heres-how-to-build-the-skill-268082 News Item #4 – Spray On Wound Treatment https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-develop-spray-on-powder-that-instantly-seals-life-threatening-wounds/ News Item #5 – Monkeys and AI https://www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/2026-01-13/monkeys-st-louis-ai-images-complicate-search Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Global Warming Are the studies and grave predictions of global warming falsifiable? There must be other ways to falsify, other than wait for a hundred years or so and measure the changes? I have believed that there was a global warming period within the cycle of ice ages since I was in the first grade in 1966, and we were told that the glaciers were melting. We also learned in the '60s that the cycle of ice ages are roughly 10,000 or 20000 years frequency. I question, if that cycle is already happening, what part does the age of industrialism play in global warming? How would the theory of man-made global warming, or the studies of the subject and the resulting predictions be falsifiable? I don't claim that there is no global warming. Nor do I claim that the industrial age does not contribute. But how would we know whether the predictions in sea level rise, glaciers and ice sheets melting, etc. and everything else are accurate? Whether or not it is manmade? Especially, if it is as grave as it seems to be? How would that be falsifiable? Perhaps what I'm really asking is, how do you find all of the studies that have dealt responsibly with all of the data and calculations. How would I know if I'm looking at a good study or a bad study? And more importantly, how would such a study be falsifiable? I haven't seen a sea level change in southern California ever in 60 years. That's why I picked a hundred or so years to wait and measure. Same thing in Boston as far as I know. UK? Iberian peninsula? The Mediterranean seems to show great changes in sea level, but long long ago. Read any part of this that you please on the show Loving the show since the beginning! Vance in Santa Clarita, California Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: Engineers have developed a robotic hand which is more dexterous than a human hand, and can even detach, crawl across the floor, and retrieve objects. Item 2: A new study finds that disconnecting from media is associated with significant and long lasting reductions in reported stress levels. Item 3: A new analysis finds that ice-age kangaroos, which were more than twice as heavy as the largest extant kangaroos, could still use hopping for locomotion. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Success in creating effective AI, could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don't know. So, we cannot know if we will be infinitely helped by AI, or ignored by it and side-lined, or conceivably destroyed by it." Stephen Hawking
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1071 January 15th 2026 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Donut Lab's Solid State Battery https://theness.com/neurologicablog/is-donut-labs-solid-state-battery-legit/ News Item #2 – Artemis Update News Item #3 – EPA Change https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html News Item #4 – Life On Red Dwarf Planets https://phys.org/news/2026-01-complex-life-planets-orbiting-galaxy.html News Item #5 – Malaysia Air Search Resumes https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mh370-search-malaysia-airlines-ocean-infinity-9.7030011 Segment 2. Special Report RFK Jr's Recent Anti-science https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-turns-food-pyramid-on-its-head/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-decimates-vaccine-schedule/ Segment 3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Birding and Memory I've been listening to you guys for many years, and now I have published a paper that you might find interesting. Hope you enjoy, particularly Steve since I know he loves birds 🙂 Kudos lay summary: https://link.growkudos.com/1exuym2jp4w Open-access paper on the OSF: https://osf.io/wgpnq/files/cfjy2 Thanks for all that you do! Best wishes, Vanessa Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Animals 2025 Item 1: Scientists have discovered a "death ball" sponge (Chondrocladia sp nov) which, unlike most sponges which are filter feeders, is predatory, feeding mostly on small crustaceans. Item 2: Scientists have discovered a new species of box jellyfish, Tripedalia maipoensis, with 24 eyes which are capable of forming low resolution 360 degree images. Item 3: Researchers discovered an entirely gynomorphic species of spider in Thailand, Damarchus inazuma, which is half orange (the female side) and half blue (the male side). Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "There is no such thing as a scientific truth believed by one person and disbelieved by the rest of the scientific community; an idea becomes a truth only when a vast majority of scientists accept it without question. That is, after all, what we mean by the expression 'scientific contribution': an offering that is accepted, however provisionally, into the common fund of knowledge." -Robert K. Merton
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The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1067 December 15th 2025 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Animals Adapting to Humans https://theness.com/neurologicablog/animals-adapting-to-humans/ News Item #2 – Pig Organ Transplants https://theconversation.com/putting-pig-organs-in-people-is-ok-in-the-us-but-growing-human-organs-in-pigs-is-not-why-is-that-270562 News Item #3 – Japan Plans to Beam Energy from Space https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/japan-to-beam-energy-down-to-earth-from-space-in-first-real-test-of-orbital-power-transmission/ News Item #4 – Ant Yogurt https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition-pseudoscience/antsy-about-getting-old-how-about-some-ant-yogurt News Item #5 – First Evidence of Fire Making https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/science/archaeology-humans-neanderthals-fire.html Segment #2. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Mercury in Fish I sent this article a couple of months back as a suggestion for a segment. I am resending it because of the science or fiction last week. It is about mecury in lakes in MN. They are bio engineering fish to get rid of it. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/05/mercury-pollution-minnesota-lake-country Question #2: Compounding Pharmacies Long time listener, one time helper of Steve for his Sunrun solar panels. A strip mall right near my house has a "compounding pharmacy". I've never heard of such a thing and haven't heard it mentioned on the show. I knew it had to be BS, and apparently it's an alternative medicine that is not regulated. I'm wondering if you've talked about this on the show, and if not, it might be worth a segment. Thanks for all you do! Guy Henry Segment #3. From TikTok Inventor of the Diesel Engine https://www.tiktok.com/@ak5528861/video/7577842291453234462?_r=1&_t=ZP-92668NlVOAx Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Astronomy 2025 Item 1: Astronomers discovered a nearly perfect spherical bubble of gas and dust within the Milky Way, which they named Teleios, but do not yet have an explanation for its formation. Item 2: Scientists confirmed the existence of four Mars-sized planets orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single-star system to Earth at just 6 light years. Item 3: NASA's Curiosity rover discovered evidence of complex organic chemistry on Mars, including 12 carbon atoms and simple nucleic acids. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "The time is coming when people won't listen to good teaching. Instead, they will look for teachers who will please them by telling them only what they are itching to hear. They will turn from the truth and eagerly listen to senseless stories." Christian Bible. 2 Timothy Chapter 4, verses 3-4 (from the Contemporary English Version)
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1066 December 9th 2025 Segment #1. News Items News Item #3 – Young Cancer https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/health/cancer-young-people-deaths.html News Item #2 – Adapting to Modern Life https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251207031335.htm News Item #1 – Safety of mRNA Vaccines https://theness.com/neurologicablog/new-study-on-the-covid-19-mrna-vaccines/ News Item #4 – Cosmic Rays Ground Aircraft https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251201-how-cosmic-rays-grounded-thousands-of-aircraft News Item #5 – Reverse Aging Claim https://www.aol.com/articles/simon-cowell-says-hes-aging-171258148.html Segment #2. Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Pronunciation Question #2: EU Gene Editing European Union negotiators reached a deal on new rules for gene editing to help farmers produce healthier animals and crops. The new rules exempt gene-edited plants and animals from the bloc's regulations covering genetically modified organisms because gene editing mimics the natural breeding process. The law still needs to be formally approved by the European Parliament and the EU Council to take effect. European Union negotiators reached a deal on new rules that pave the way for gene editing, a technique that will help farmers produce healthier animals and crops as they adjust to climate change. Representatives of member states, the European Commission and the European Parliament agreed in the early hours of Thursday on the final shape of a law that will exempt gene-edited plants and animals from the bloc's regulations covering genetically modified organisms. Crucially, gene editing mimics the natural breeding process, and doesn't introduce DNA from a different species like conventional GM organisms. Barry Appelman Segment #4. Who Am I Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: 1066 Item 1: After the Norman Conquest in 1066, French became the official language of England, and remained so until 1362. Item 2: The decisive technology of the Battle of Hastings was the stirrup, used effectively by the Norman cavalry, but not yet in use by their Anglo Saxon counterparts. Item 3: Halley's Comet appeared in the skies in 1066 and was thought to be a significant omen by both sides, and is even depicted in the famed Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Normal Conquest. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?" ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1064 December 4th 2025 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Cognitive Legos https://theness.com/neurologicablog/cognitive-legos/ News Item #2 – China's Planting Lots of Trees https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-its-changed-the-entire-countrys-water-distribution News Item #3 – Misinformation and Birth Control https://undark.org/2025/11/24/misinformation-birth-control/ News Item #4 – Dark Matter Detection https://futurism.com/space/scientists-detected-dark-matter-first-time News Item #5 – Asteroid Bennu Ingredients for Life https://www.newscientist.com/article/2506650-asteroid-bennu-carries-all-the-ingredients-for-life-as-we-know-it/ Segment #2. Who's That Noisy https://youtube.com/shorts/OPsVAT3SMCs?si=wzPZ9osDQcbTXtik Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Climate Denial Recently my father, who has been an extremely well read individual with a degree in law and philosophy, has been diving deeper and deeper into what we would consider fringe or even pseudoscience. His latest target is climate. The issue for me is that he's generally a very clever man that thinks critically about things, so for him to come out and say things like this is concerning for me. He has linked me to this article in a move that seems like it's on the path to full on climate denial. Is there some kind of logical fallacy in this article or is it otherwise debunkable in some other way that I'm missing. I'd love to get your take on it. Thank you for all that you do. Best Sam Sareen https://climaterealists.ca/climate-science-is-not-traditional-science-so-how-can-it-be-settled/ https://theness.com/neurologicablog/is-climate-science-post-normal-science/ Question #2: Cardiac Calcium Scans I've been listening to your show for a really long time and even bought your book. I saw my doctor today and paraphrased your segment about Cardiac Calcuim Scans and to her as I'm a 50 y.o generally healthy person with similar cholesterol numbers as Steve and Cara stated in the segment and I'm on a statin drug. Imagine my embarrassment when my doctor told me that Cardiac Calcuim Scans are basically a scam and whoever told me about them was most likely a paid spokesperson for a testing corporation. She went on to explain pseudoscience to me and how to recognize when I'm being duped. This was doubly embarrassing because I've been involved in the skeptic community for almost 2 decades and considered you guys to be a solid source for legit medical science. A case can be made that I should have researched CCS before mentioning it to my doctor rather than just trusting your word. Lesson learned. Your book is in my recycle bin and I will not repeat this mistake. Thank you for reminding me to never be complacent and never trust any experts without evidence. Ryan Boddy Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Item 1: Researchers find that small mechanical mice were effective deterrents to keep elephants away from crops in Botswana. Item 2: A recent systematic review finds that 20-30% of the world's population have "biophobia", which is a general aversion to nature. Item 3: A new study finds that plants and phytoplankton have an internal mechanism to detoxify methymercury and convert it back into atmospheric mercury, providing a potential pathway to reduce mercury in the food supply. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "There is, of course, another sort of disagreement, which is owing merely to inequalities of knowledge. The relatively ignorant often wrongly disagree with the relatively learned about matters exceeding their knowledge. The more learned, however, have a right to be critical of errors made by those who lack relevant knowledge. Disagreement of this sort can also be corrected. Inequality of knowledge is always curable by instruction." from "How to read a book" by Mortimer J Adler and Charles Van Doren
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1063 November 25th 2025 With Special Guest Andrea Jones Roy Segment #1. Quicky with Bob Helion Fusion Update https://www.helionenergy.com/polaris/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – CRISPR Wheat Can Source Its Own Nitrogen https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251123115435.htm News Item #2 – LLMs and Collective Intelligence https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26339137251367733 News Item #3 – Origins of Theia https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado0623 News Item #4 – Holiday Scams https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/holiday-scams-2025-these-common-shopping-habits-make-you-the-easiest-target News Item #5 – Hypervelocity White Dwarves https://www.space.com/astronomy/stars/galactic-cannonballs-the-mystery-of-hypervelocity-white-dwarfs-may-just-have-been-solved Segment #3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Correction Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Scientific Fraud Item 1: The famous experiment in subliminal advertising in a movie theater, to increase sales of Coke and popcorn, never happened and was entirely fabricated. Item 2: A recent analysis finds the number of fake publications in biomedicine was at least 5.8%, with 15% being suspicious, amounting to over 100,000 fake papers published every year. Item 3: Researchers find that 40% of published peer-reviewed papers show signs of AI co-authorship, with 10% being fully authored by AI. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "It is easy to get international agreement in science. Scientists have all the same standards - they are set not by beliefs, but by what works best. Of necessity, there is therefore universal unity. And unity makes for goodwill." Bernd Heinrich - professor emeritu, biology department, University of Vermont, author of a number of books about nature and biology. Heinrich has made major contributions to the study of insect physiology and behavior, as well as bird behavior. submitted by Terry from American Canyon CA
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1062 November 20th 2025 Segment #1. Dumbest Thing of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NKe7vtpueA/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Using AI To Design a Virus https://www.biopharmatrend.com/news/stanfordarc-team-reports-ai-made-viruses-that-kill-bacteria-1383 News Item #2 – Creatine for Cognitive Function https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/creatine-supplements-for-brain-function/ News Item #3 – Earth Digital Twin https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-create-digital-twin-of-earth-accurate-to-a-1-kilometer-scale News Item #4 – Quiet Supersonic Jet https://www.livescience.com/technology/engineering/nasas-new-ultraquiet-supersonic-flying-swordfish-plane-makes-history-with-first-test-flight News Item #5 – Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251102205021.htm Segment #3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Tool use by wolves A recent paper in Science claims wolves use tools (https://www.science.org/content/article/have-wild-wolves-learned-use-tools). A wolf apparently learned to pull up a submerged net with crabs at the bottom. An ethologist on Bluesky wrote, "This meets the the most standard definition of tool use used in primatology (Beck 1980), and it surprises me how many don't think it qualifies as tool use" ( https://bsky.app/profile/marspidermonkey.bsky.social/post/3m5x6erzt622q ). The definition is apparently "that they are using an unattached object (the net), to manipulate something else (the fish), and manipulated and properly orients the tool (correctly angles it to pull the net out and get the fish)." To me, this seems like a weak definition of "tool," because it relies on humans' awareness of whether the object is unattached to the reward. For example, suppose crabs had a very long, floaty tail that looked just like a net, and a wolf pulled that up and ate the crab's main body. Humans wouldn't call that a tool, but the wolf might not see any difference between that and the reported situation. What do you all reckon? Love the show. Best Tom Buckley Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: South Korean researchers have developed a process for increasing bacterial cellulose production for textiles by over 10 fold, approaching cost parity with natural fibers. Item 2: MIT researchers have developed a thin polymer film that is 10,000 times less permeable to gas than all other polymers. Item 3: For the first time scientists were able to create immortal cow cells without the need for any genetic modification. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance." – David Eagleman
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1062 November 15th 2025
Live from Kansas; Special Segment: Nightmares; News Items: The NeuroWorm, Ant Gives Birth to Different Species, Primordial Black Holes, Cultish, Tooth Eye, Snake Oil, Flowing Water on Asteroid; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1061 November 8th 2025
Quickie with Bob: Nanotech Cancer Drug; News Items: NEO Robot, UN Climate Report, Human Toolmaking, Worst Panspermia Headline Ever, AI-Powered Wound Healer; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Horse Evolution, Stranded Taikonauts; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1060 October 30th 2025 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Therapeutic Nanoparticles https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251029100154.htm News Item #2 – What Killed Napoleon's Forces https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-finally-reveals-what-really-killed-napoleons-forces News Item #3 – Making Better Photosynthesis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65307-9 News Item #4 – Second Generation Black Holes https://phys.org/news/2025-10-gravitational-events-hint-generation-black.html News Item #5 – More on 3I/ATLAS https://www.ladbible.com/news/science/3iatlas-alien-spaceship-earth-comet-359926-20251029 Segment #2 Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Human Instinct Here is my paraphrase of what a psychologist said on a radio program many years ago: humans have reflexes, drives, and urges, but humans do not have (or act on) instinct. At the time I simply accepted the comment as accurate but what are your thoughts? I thought that this might be an interesting segment for the show. Norbert Alwast Segment #4. Name That Logical Fallacy Argument from Ignorance https://www.tiktok.com/@latterdaylogic/video/7564860024363732238?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Good News Item 1: Engineers have created a form of gallium-doped germanium, materials already used in electronics, that is superconducting at ambient pressures and in the temperature range of liquid nitrogen. Item 2: A new framework for deep learning models trains faster and uses
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1059 October 23rd 2025 Segment #1. What's the Word Peristalsis Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Dimming the Sun https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/10/251021083631.htm News Item #2 – LLMs Will Lie to be Helpful https://theness.com/neurologicablog/llms-will-lie-to-be-helpful/ News Item #3 – Should We Stop Quest for Superintelligence https://www.barrons.com/news/celebrities-ai-giants-urge-end-to-superintelligence-quest-3d3e04eb?mod=article_inline News Item #4 – CT Ghost https://www.courant.com/2025/10/22/cts-famous-ghost-is-the-white-lady-of-easton-seen-her-why-a-paranormal-investigator-is-asking/ Segment #2 Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: COVID Vaccines I saw this article referenced in a typical online argument: https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/10/6/ofad209/7131292 The commenter extracted the following one-line quote: "The risk of COVID-19 also increased with time since the most recent prior COVID-19 episode and with the number of vaccine doses previously received…" I've studied the article carefully (I have a PhD and although I'm primarily a SW-engr/data scientist, I work in neuroscience research, am scientifically literate, and am qualified to read articles of this sort) and I don't believe the quote was out of context. The article and its data really do reveal the implied pattern (Fig. 2 & caption, and then a paragraph in the Discussion). The authors admit the unexpected pattern in in the paper. The quote above isn't out-of-context or disingenuous. IMO, the authors' speculations as to possible explanations for the surprising pattern are fairly unconvincing (or at least rather weak): more-dosed individuals might also be in higher risk categories. Even they, in the same paragraph, admit and explain the unlikelihood of this explanation (those willfully getting fewer doses should be expected to be a higher risk cohort as well, even though that implies the opposite pattern). They pointed to other studies finding the same result. The speculation at that point in the paper gets pretty nuanced: specific features of the antibodies and immune response. Ultimately, I don't see a very good explanation for this pattern in the paper. The pattern appears to be valid, so a response should be something other than "the conclusion isn't correct", such as perhaps despite a higher infection rate, the infections are less severe with lower hospitalization or lower death or lower long Covid risk. But that is all speculation. There's no data implying such facts. How would you counter this argument when confronted with it? Keith Wiley Seattle, WA Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Human Flatulence Item 1: Greater than 99% of flatulence is comprised of odorless gasses. Item 2: Up to 50% of human flatulence is comprised of hydrogen gas, which is flammable. Item 3: There are several approved tests for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in flatulence as an early screen for colorectal cancer. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "By all means let us agree that we are pattern-seeking mammals and that, owing to our restless intelligence and inquisitiveness, we will still prefer a conspiracy theory to no explanation at all." Christopher Hitchens
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1058 October 16th 2025 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Why People Believe Misinformation https://theconversation.com/winning-with-misinformation-new-research-identifies-link-between-endorsing-easily-disproven-claims-and-prioritizing-symbolic-strength-265652 News Item #2 – Measles on the Rise https://www.npr.org/2025/10/12/nx-s1-5572507/us-measles-outbreaks-texas-south-carolina-utah-minnesota News Item #3 – Is Therapy Speech https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/is-conversion-therapy-speech/ News Item #4 – Solar Activity Increasing https://www.sciencealert.com/our-sun-is-becoming-more-active-and-nasa-doesnt-know-why News Item #5 – Possible Wormhole https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-detected-wormhole Segment #2 Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Name That Logical Fallacy I'm engaged in a discussion on the internet about pornography. The argument is made that, quote, "If you think porn causes no harms then let's broadcast it in every public place." Apart from the straw argument that nobody has actually said that porn causes no harms, what is the fallacy here? Thanks, your friend, Arthwollipot Segment #4. From TikTok What if we place the Earth in a vacuum. https://www.tiktok.com/@_7club_/video/7540763380429098295 Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Insects Item 1: Flight evolved independently three times among insects and emerged first among insects, about 350 million years ago. Item 2: Termites are a type of cockroach, the one with the most complex social system. Item 3: The largest insect to ever live was Meganeuropsis permiana, a giant predatory dragonfly with a wingspan of 2.5 feet that likely hunted frogs and small mammals. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable." — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1057 October 9th 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Steve Liver Xenograft https://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-8278(25)02497-3/fulltext Segment #2. News Items Nobel Prizes 2025 News Item #1 – Physiology or Medicine https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/press-release/ News Item #2 – Physics https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/press-release/ News Item #3 – Chemistry https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/press-release/ News Item #4 – Long COVID https://academic.oup.com/braincomms/article/7/5/fcaf337/8258475 Segment #3 Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Interview with David Kyle Johnson Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: A recent analysis finds that oil and gas companies hold about 20% of the world's renewable energy assets. Item 2: New research finds that quitting smoking after a cancer diagnosis leads to improved survival, more than doubling survival time in patients with advanced stage cancer. Item 3: A study of a backpack designed to increase airflow, without supplemental oxygen, increased avalanche burial survival time by at least five fold. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Science is the greatest equalising force in the world. Smart people, talented people, skilled people exist everywhere. That's why we really should focus on unleashing their potential through providing them with opportunity". - Omar M. Yaghi
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1056 October 2nd 2025 With Special Guest: Lee Mosbacker Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Giant wave moving through our galaxy https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/a-great-wave-is-rippling-through-our-galaxy-pushing-thousands-of-stars-out-of-place Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Redrawing the Human Family Tree https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado9202 News Item #2 – Fig Wasps https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/do-figs-really-have-dead-wasps-in-them News Item #3 – ALS May Be Autoimmune https://neurosciencenews.com/als-autoimmune-disease-29757/ News Item #4 – Complex Chemistry on Enceladus https://phys.org/news/2025-09-cassini-complex-chemistry-enceladus-ocean.html News Item #5 – Genius Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GENIUS_Act Segment #3 Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Parrot as intelligent as a chimp? Link is to some experiments done with Kea. https://youtu.be/Yj718A7_s4A Gary Rees New Zealand Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Evolution Item 1: Leglessness has evolved independently in lizards at least 25 times. Item 2: Although the precise number is debated, camera-type eyes have evolved from more primitive eyes independently in vertebrates about 4 times. Item 3: Complex multicellular life has evolved independently on Earth at least 5 times. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "The chimpanzee study taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we're simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think." - Jane Goodall
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1055 September 24th 2025 Segment #1. What's the Word Autism Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – New NASA Mission Control https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasa-debuts-new-orion-mission-control-room-for-artemis-2-astronauts-journey-to-the-moon-photos News Item #2 – Element 120 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a67947951/scientists-discover-pathway-element-120-holy-grail-of-chemistry/ News Item #3 – Scalable Quantum Computer https://theness.com/neurologicablog/scalable-quantum-computer/ News Item #4 – Using AI Increases Lying https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09505-x News Item #5 – Scams and Fraud https://theconversation.com/scams-and-frauds-here-are-the-tactics-criminals-use-on-you-in-the-age-of-ai-and-cryptocurrencies-264867 Segment #3 Who's That Noisy Molten metal poured into cold water Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Hydrogen as Propellant Hydrogen is a great propellant if you are optimising for ISP. With a combustion chamber at a given temperature the average kinetic energy of the molecules is equal irrespective of the type of gas. If the gas is made up of lighter molecules those molecules will be moving faster. Faster molecules leads to faster exhaust velocity. Faster exhaust velocity leads to higher ISP. Higher ISP leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Matthew Oelkers Segment #5. Name That Logical Fallacy Hi, SGU! I came across the following fallacy used by Douglas Murray and Mosab Yousef in debates against critics of the IDF: "Unless you've been there, you cannot express an opinion on the issue, and since I've been there, I have more credibility than you." Someone made fun of that argument by saying: "Katy Perry therefore knows more about space than Stephen Hawking, because she's been there and he hasn't." I can't quite pinpoint if this just an argument from authority, or if there's something else to it. Max Segment #6. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: In the first such study in Germany in almost 50 years, a mandatory speed limit of 75 mph would result in a 26% decrease in crashes with severe injuries. Item 2: Scientists have demonstrated a quantum sensor that is able to determine linked properties, such as position and momentum, to great precision, bypassing the limits of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Item 3: A recent study finds that, despite advances, people are still able to distinguish in many cases between AI generated voices and human voices. Segment #7. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Inductive reasoning is, of course, good guessing, not sound reasoning, but the finest results in science have been obtained in this way. Calling the guess a "working hypothesis," its consequences are tested by experiment in every conceivable way." — Joseph William Mellor
News Items: Conspiracy Physics, Cancer Misinformation, Improved Nuclear Thermal Propulsion, Oldest Mummies, Not The Screwworms; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Ethics in Research; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1053 September 10th 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Evan Earth Quasi-moon https://earthsky.org/space/earth-quasi-moon-2025-pn7/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Guiding Tiny Robots https://www.science.org/content/article/microscopic-robots-navigate-artificial-spacetimes News Item #2 – Tylenol and Autism https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-autism/ News Item #3 – Music Choices as we Age https://phys.org/news/2025-09-older-favorite-songs.html News Item #4 – Mind Reading Wearable https://www.techtimes.com/articles/311889/20250910/alterego-introduces-worlds-first-near-telepathic-wearable.htm News Item #5 – Decreasing Science Scores https://edsource.org/2025/science-scores-decline/740293 Segment #3 Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Gold Nanowire Gel Batteries Have you or can you cover Gold nanowire gel electrolyte batteries pros and cons? Thank you for your very informative and entertaining show. Curtis Wichita, Kansas Question #2: Otters are Monsters I get the appeal. I personally like river otters more than sea otters. But... otters are monsters. Otters: the violent, necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea | Vox https://share.google/WQH3mkaMHXWgAoS67 Segment #6. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Gravitational Waves Item 1: Gravitational wave detectors are the second most precise measuring instruments in science, in terms of relative uncertainty, second only to atomic clocks. Item 2: A recent detection by LIGO of colliding black holes confirms Stephen Hawking's theorem that the surface area of the event horizon of black holes cannot decrease, and the combined area of the merged black holes will be greater than the sum of the two areas. Item 3: The "smallest" gravitational type of event current gravitational wave detectors can detect is the merger of two neutron stars. Segment #7. Skeptical Quote of the Week "The word is mightier than the sword." Ahiqar, the Assyrian Sage, from the folklore titled The Story of Ahiqar, (earliest written version in the 5th century BCE)
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1052 September 3rd 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Real Interstellar Technosignatures https://phys.org/news/2025-09-technosignatures-interstellar.html Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Sexless Seeds https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02753-x News Item #2 – Spouses Share Psychiatric Disorders https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02772-8 News Item #3 – CRISPR Improvement https://phys.org/news/2025-08-crispr-efficiency-triples-lab-dna.html News Item #4 – Robotic Bee https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/09/01/mit-develops-robotic-bee-that-can-flip-and-hover-and-could-pollinate-plants-on-other-planets-someday/ News Item #5 – Tin Man Syndrome Retracted https://retractionwatch.com/2025/09/02/tin-man-syndrome-five-other-case-studies-retracted-following-retraction-watch-coverage/ News Item #6 – Super Wood https://www.newsweek.com/super-wood-inventwood-construction-production-2072071 Segment #3 Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Taxing Deductions Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Marine Mammals Item 1: Large whales build up ear wax in layers, forming rings which can be used to estimate their age. Item 2: The blue whale has the largest brain, in absolute terms, of any animal to have ever lived. Item 3: Otters have pouches near their forearms which they use to store rocks to use as tools, sometimes keeping a favorite tool for years. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." Ronald Coase
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1051 August 27th 2025 Segment #1. Why Didn't I Know This First Portable Computer https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/the-worlds-first-laptop-weighed-24-pounds-and-had-a-five-inch-screen-but-it-changed-computers-forever/ Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Brightest Fast Radio Burst https://theness.com/neurologicablog/brightest-fast-radio-burst-discovered/ News Item #2 – Trash into Biochar https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44246-025-00207-7 News Item #3 – Declining Reading Rates https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/social-sciences/reading-rates-decline-us/ News Item #4 – Most Americans Skeptical of Paranormal https://news.gallup.com/poll/692738/paranormal-phenomena-met-skepticism.aspx News Item #5 – Quantum Alternative to GPS https://theconversation.com/quantum-alternative-to-gps-navigation-will-be-tested-on-us-military-spaceplane-262967 Segment #3 Who's That Noisy Segment #4. From TikTok Question #1: Mammograms Not Banned in Switzerland https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6boH6KC/ Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Everyday Chemistry Item 1: Microwave ovens heat food unevenly partly because they produce standing waves with high and low energy spots. Item 2: Rusting is an electrochemical process, with a little battery forming on the surface of iron, including an anode and a cathode. Item 3: The gases inside bubbles of freshly baked bread (prior to cooling) are about 80% CO2 and 20% oxygen. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "However profoundly we may penetrate the depths of space, there still remain innumerable systems, compared with which, those which seem so mighty to us must dwindle into insignificance, or even become invisible.." Mary Somerville
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1050 August 20th 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Steve Fusion to Make Gold https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13461 Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Older Americans Using AI https://theconversation.com/older-americans-are-using-ai-study-shows-how-and-what-they-think-of-it-262411 News Item #2 – Semi-Solid State EV https://electrek.co/2025/08/13/first-ev-with-semi-solid-state-battery-cleared-for-sale/?utm_source=chatgpt.com News Item #3 – Ad Hominem Attacks Online https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328550 News Item #4 – Non-Surgical LASIK https://newatlas.com/medical-devices/emr-vision-cornea-lasik/ News Item #5 – Now 3I-Atlas is Glowing https://futurism.com/interstellar-object-light Segment #3 Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Elemental Drugs Hi Steve and team, I'm probably not the only one to point out that there are many elemental drugs apart from Li. While many indications are for replacement in physiological deficiency, for example Fe2/3+, these have pharmacodynamic properties used to treat a distinct disorder: Mg2+ in eclampsia, cardiac rhythm disturbances such as VT/"Tousades de Pointe", hypertension, asthma. Ca2+ in haemorrhage and massive transfusion (granted that it is counteracting the citrate effect from RBC infusion), hyperkalaemia and hypercalcaemia. Pt in chemotherapy. Arsenic is also used in chemo. Au in rheumatoid arthritis, granted is now rarely used. Ph in bowel prep for colonoscopy. Ag in burns as antimicrobial, and as cautery agent. Iodine in thyroid disease, for radioactive ablation or protection in radiation exposure. Others that are mainly used for their properties as a salt: Na, K, Se, Bi, Sb, Zn. Hope this provides some additional information for listeners. I use many in my work as an anaesthetist (anaesthesiologist in your parlance). Kind Regards Simon. Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: Astrophysicists have published exact solutions to Einstein's gravity relativity equations that allow for pre-Big Bang cosmology. Item 2: Scientists observe a unique supernova that observationally confirms, for the first time, the layers of different elements that make up the deep internal structure of massive stars. Item 3: Researchers have created a protein qubit that can function inside biological systems and potentially be used for imaging inside living cells. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond. Francis Bacon
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1049 August 13th 2025 Segment #1. News Items News Item #1 – Jim Lovell Dies at 97 https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/acting-nasa-administrator-reflects-on-legacy-of-astronaut-jim-lovell/ News Item #2 – Music Anhedonia https://neurosciencenews.com/music-anhedonia-auditory-neuroscience-29546/ News Item #3 – Lithium and Alzheimer's https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/lithium-and-alzheimers-disease/ News Item #4 – Chat GPT-5 https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/openai-launches-chatgpt5-sam-altman-smartest-ai-chatbot/ News Item #5 – Dangerous Worm Cleanse https://www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/cultureclinic/116845 Segment #2 Who's That Noisy Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: MiniNuclear Plants https://theness.com/neurologicablog/mini-nuclear-reactors/ Segment #4. Who Am I Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: A new study finds that when Europeans move to more walkable cities, they walk more, but the same is not true for Americans, who do not change their total average walking. Item 2: Researchers report the first clinical tests of an mRNA based treatment that demonstrates protection against all viruses. Item 3: Researchers find that the retina synchronizes the signals from different receptors before they get to the optic nerve to minimize temporal distortion. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "I heartily beg that what I have here done may be read with candour; and that the defects in a subject so difficult be not so much reprehended as kindly supplied, and investigated by new endeavors of my readers." Issac Newton Cambridge, Trinity College May 8, 1688
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1048 August 6th 2025 Segment #1. Quickie with Bob Drinking Water from Air https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-drinking-water-0611 Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Depleted Uranium Batteries https://theness.com/neurologicablog/depleted-uranium-batteries/ News Item #2 – Russia Earthquake and Volcanoes https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/a-parade-of-volcanoes-is-erupting-in-russia-following-an-8-8-earthquake News Item #3 – New Shroud of Turin Analysis https://www.sciencealert.com/image-on-the-shroud-of-turin-may-not-belong-to-a-real-human News Item #4 – Web of Space https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/spatial-web-standard-2673650454 Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Hydrogen in powder form I just read this and it seems too good to be true! Opinion. https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/australias-revolutionary-hydrogen-powder-is-easier-and-cheaper-to-use-for-clean-energy/ Graeme Nitz Question #2: Lab Leak Hey guys, I've been seeing/hearing lately from, in my experience, reputable scientific sources that the Corona virus lab leak hypothesis/conspiracy is now generally accepted by the scientific community as being the most likely way that human infection started. I'd love to hear your take on it and evaluation of the current state of the evidence. Regards Jeff Segment #4. From TikTok Rogan, Lyme lab leak https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPHsjU9vJPNbE-RoVKY/ Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Stars Item 1: The fastest observed star in the universe is S4714, moving at 24,000 km/s or 8% the speed of light. Item 2: HV 2112 is the first confirmed Thorne-Zytkow object, which is a red giant star with a neutron star for a core. Item 3: EBLM J0555-57Ab is the smallest known star, about the size of Saturn, or 0.05% the volume of our sun. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being the first person in the history of the world to see something or to understand something. Nothing can compare with that experience." – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1047 July 30th 2025 Segment #1. From TikTok More on 3I/ATLAS Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Artery Calcium Scan https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/health/coronary-artery-calcium-heart.html News Item #2 – Microwave Beam for Geothermal Drilling https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/superhot-geothermal-energy-could-unearth-power-needed-for-ai-era-.html News Item #3 – World's Largest Cargo Plane https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250729-windrunner-the-company-that-wants-to-build-the-worlds-largest-aircraft News Item #4 – Dental Floss Vaccine https://dnyuz.com/2025/07/26/dental-floss-could-be-the-future-of-vaccines/ Segment #3. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Apes Sign Language In the show two weeks ago (#1045) during Science or Fiction, Cara said something like, "we know that apes can learn sign language" when discussing the river pig's alleged intelligence. I thought the narrative of signing apes had been debunked. I re-listened to Skeptoid's podcast (#630) on the subject to confirm my memory wasn't flawed. Love the show, and loved seeing you guys in person in Melbourne a few years ago. Jeremy Melbourne, Australia Question #2: Mama Cass Hi all, Just writing in to note that in this week's episode Evan mentioned that a ham sandwich was "how Mama Cass went". This is a (fairly humiliating) myth - she actually died of a heart attack. It's so easy to hear pop culture myths and not question them, especially if one has no real interest in the person in question and doesn't care enough to look into it. So no judgement here, I just think it's important that this myth (like any) doesn't keep on being perpetuated. 😊 Love the show, keep up the amazing work that you do! Erin Segment #4. Name That Logical Fallacy I've been listening for many years and this is my first time contacting the show. For context, my earliest memories are the "inflating Earth" and "birds vs. monkeys". I was watching a clip of some internet rando saying evolution couldn't have happened because [paraphrasing] "half of an organ wouldn't work" (e.g., an incomplete eye wouldn't have vision as we know it"). Obviously we've heard the whole "eye" thing a million times and this betrays a lack of understanding of adaptation and evolution (and is quite ableist), but I had a sudden realization that this might also be a very specific logical fallacy. Jason Massachusetts Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: Scientists have built and confirmed a neutrino detector able to detect neutrinos with just 3kg of detector mass, compared to the multiple tonnes of other detectors. Item 2: A new study finds that Roman concrete is more sustainable than modern concrete, requiring 10% less water and releasing 20% less CO2 in its manufacture. Item 3: Researchers have developed and now successfully tested gene therapy to prevent HIV infection that works in infants for several years after a single treatment. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many." ― Baruch Spinoza
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1046 July 23rd 2025 Segment #1. What's the Word Fossil Words Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – New Supermaterial https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250721223831.htm News Item #2 – Avi Loeb and the Alien Hypothesis https://theness.com/neurologicablog/avi-loeb-and-the-alien-technology-hypothesis/ News Item #3 – Belly Fat Jab https://newatlas.com/disease/obesity/worlds-first-targeted-fat-destroyer/ News Item #4 – Hormone Therapy https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/health/antidepressants-ssri-pregnancy-fda.html AND https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/health/hormone-therapy-menopause-fda.html News Item #5 – Death by Haunted Doll https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-news/paranormal-investigator-dan-rivera-dies-on-annabelle-haunted-doll-tour/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter Segment #3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Malta Item 1: Despite being a small island nation notoriously cramped for space, Malta has one of the highest cars per capita in the world, and the highest in the EU. Item 2: Malta contains among the oldest freestanding structures in the world, megalithic temples older than the Pyramids at Giza and Stonehenge. Item 3: The national bird of Malta is the peregrine falcon, with a large breeding population on the main island. Segment #5. Skeptical Quote of the Week "Ignorance is the most delightful science in the world because it is acquired without labour or pains and keeps the mind from melancholy." - Giordano Bruno
Quickie with Bob: Weird Exoplanet; News Items: Voyager Thrusters Brought Back to Life, Space Tourism, Global Temperature and Ice Sheet Melting, Robots Learn Physical Tasks 60 Times Faster, Most Powerful Solar Storm; Your Questions and E-mails: EV Charging, Off the Hook; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Word of the Week: Orthomolecular; News Items: Ban Left Turns, Bird Flu Shenanigans, Interstellar Comet, Artificial Blood, Beekeeping Benefits; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AI Tech Support; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Quantum Electronics; News Items: AI Research Collaborators, AI Carbon Footprint, Curing Deafness, Food Myths, AI Enzyme Engineering; Who's That Noisy; Why Didn't I Know This: The Great Attractor; Your Questions and E-mails: Why Scientists Fall for Woo; Science or Fiction
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1042 June 25th 2025 Segment #1. What's the Word Eco Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Vaccinating the World https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-life-childhood-vaccination-coverage-stalled.html News Item #2 – How Children vs AI Acquire Language https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00142-1 News Item #3 – Vera Rubin Observatory https://www.space.com/astronomy/vera-c-rubin-observatory-reveals-1st-stunning-images-of-the-cosmos-scientists-are-beyond-excited-about-whats-coming News Item #4 – Visible Nova https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/a-new-star-has-exploded-into-the-night-sky-and-you-can-see-it-from-north-america News Item #5 – Effects of Chat GPT on the Brain https://theconversation.com/mit-researchers-say-using-chatgpt-can-rot-your-brain-the-truth-is-a-little-more-complicated-259450 Segment #3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4: Name That Logical Fallacy I'm currently attempting a thru hike of the Pacific Crest Trail, and I'm in the Sierras currently and it is recommended that people car try an ice axe for the snowy areas so people can self arrest if they fall. I have heard a lot of people say they won't bring an ice ax into the Sierras because they "don't know how to use it anyways". This feels like they are mostly trying to convince themselves that they don't need to spend the money on an ice axe and they don't need to carry the extra weight. But this argument of "I don't want to bring it because I don't know how to use it" feels like a logical fallacy to me. Though it is true that there are more effective ways to use an ice ax than others, it does feel like its main use is relatively simple in its design. The best analogy I can think of for this argument is like if you were in a boat and someone didn't know how to swim well and had never been shown how to use a personal flotation device (PFD). So you hand them a PFD without any explanation on how to use it. The person then looks at the PFD and looks at you and says, no thanks, because I don't know how to use the PFD perfectly I would just rather not have it with me. What logical fallacy do you think this would be? Alex Smith Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Item 1: Scientists have discovered a new organelle inside human cells they are calling the hemifusome. Item 2: Researchers have been able to genetically engineer immune cells to produce a protein that induces long term dormancy in HIV. Item 3: A recent graph of marine biomass over time shows that total biomass is mostly stable over geological time, punctuated by mass extinctions and later return to the longer term baseline. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning." - Werner Heisenberg
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1041 June 18th 2025 Guest Rogue Justin Daab Segment #1. From TikTok Mysterious Moon https://www.tiktok.com/@filspixel/video/7507104277635026182 Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – Scopes 100 Year Anniversary https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scopes-trial-anniversary-science-attack News Item #2 – Smells and Hunger https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250612031553.htm News Item #3 – Black Hole Supercollider https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250603114637.htm News Item #4 – Antarctica Radio Pulses https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica News Item #5 – GMOs May Save Florida Citrus https://theness.com/neurologicablog/gmos-may-save-florida-citrus/ Segment #3. Special Report Does AI Think? Segment #4. Who's That Noisy Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Theme: Online Privacy Item 1: Websites can secretly activate your microphone to gather information about you, including audibly tracking your keystrokes. Item 2: Once you log into a website, it is possible for it to link your account to your browsing activity so that they can track your online activity on other websites. Item 3: Browser fingerprinting uses features about your computer, such as your screen resolution and installed fonts, to create a fingerprint they can use to track your activity across the internet. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "I think this case will be remembered because it is the first case of this sort since we stopped trying people in America for witchcraft, because here we have done our best to turn back the tide that has sought to force itself upon this modern world, of testing every fact in science by a religious dictum." — Clarence Darrow
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1040 June 11th 2025 Segment #1. Dumbest Thing of the Week Premium Water https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/dining/fine-water-mineral-sommeliers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk8.N-6X.DQISJdAFR79V∣=url-share Segment #2. News Items News Item #1 – NASA Budget https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87jq0djw00o News Item #2 – RFK Jr. Sacks Vaccine Panel https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-sacks-entire-cdc-vaccine-committee/ News Item #3 – Digital Life After Death https://theconversation.com/do-you-know-how-to-prepare-for-your-digital-life-after-death-cu-boulders-student-run-clinic-has-some-advice-257867 News Item #4 – Light out of Nothing https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/06/250608072527.htm News Item #5 – Possible New Treatment for HIV https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/05/breakthrough-in-search-for-hiv-cure-leaves-researchers-overwhelmed Segment #3. Who's That Noisy Segment #4. Your Questions and E-mails Question #1: Proving the Earth is Round I wanted to bring the experiment that SciManDan is organizing to A:disprove flat earth but B:have a massive, possibly largest replication of Eratosthenes. On June 21, the summer solstice in the norther hemisphere he wants as many people to measure the angle of the sun at noon as possible and send photographic or better yet video evidence of the measurements. Seemed like something up you're ally. Have a good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mwDIAqm-hs Jay, Boston Segment #5. Science or Fiction Each week our host will come up with three science news items or facts, two genuine, one fictitious. He will challenge our panel of skeptics to sniff out the fake – and you can play along. Item 1: Researchers have demonstrated a brain-machine interface system that allows a subject with ALS who cannot physically speak to speak in real time and with 97% accuracy. Item 2: A new genetic analysis finds that Florida alligators are actual two distinct species, which may have resulted from interbreeding with introduced Asian alligators. Item 3: For the first time engineers have built a working computer entirely of 2- dimensional material without any silicon. Segment #6. Skeptical Quote of the Week "The progress of science depends less on the accumulation of facts than on the emergence of new ways of thinking about them, often by specialists deeply immersed in a problem." ― Stephen Jay Gould (Paleontologist and evolutionary biologist)
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Premium Water; News Items: NASA Budget, RFK Jr Sacks Vaccine Panel, Digital Life After Death, Light Out of Nothing, Possible New Treatment for HIV; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Replicating Eratosthenes; Science or Fiction
Interview with Emily Schoerning; Quickie with Bob: Prepping for Q-Day; News Items: Seed Oils, Lead into Gold, American Lysenkoism, The Screwworm is Coming, Galactic Collision; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dream Learning; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Global Warming and Ocean Currents; News Items: Infrared Contact Lenses, Trees Respond to Solar Eclipse, Affective Polarization, The Brain's Motor Switchboard, New Dwarf Planet Candidate; Discussion: The Effect of Science Fiction; Your Questions and E-mails: HHS Cancels Vaccine Contract; Science or Fiction
Live from NotACon with Guest Rogue Adam Russell; News Items: New Cambrian Fossil, Best Archaeopteryx Specimen, Chimps Using First Aid, Treatment for Baldness, New Color - Olo, The Next Theranos, Bespoke Genetic Therapy; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Word of the Week: Moxibustion; News Items: Cold Plunges, The End of Life, Floating Nuclear Power, Visualizing Special Relativity, Brainspotting Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Ethics of Pig Hearts, Are Flat Earthers Real; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Fusion Rockets; News Items: Falling Space Debris, What Makes People Flourish, Pig Heart Xenografts, Chiropractic Stroke, Breathable Algae Drug Delivery; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Faster Than Light Expansion, Autism Self-Diagnosis; Science or Fiction
Interview with Melanie Trecek-King; News Items: Internet Fakes and Violence, Lab Grown Teeth, RFK On Autism, AI Designed Instruments; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Big Bang Miracle; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Game Transfer Phenomenon; Geoengineering, Biosignature Candidate, Skull Rock on Mars; Commercial Perovskite Solar Panels; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Another Unified Theory; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Turned to Stone; News Items: Where Did Earth's Water Come From, EPA Data on Emissions, Is Your Red My Red, Evolution of Complex Life, Crow Math Skills; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Separate the Art from the Artists, Does the Moon Rotate; Science or Fiction
TikTok Flat Earthers; News Items: De-extincting the Dire Wolf, What Experts Think About AI, Planned Obsolescence, VR Touch Sensory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: SNPs vs Sequencing; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: enantiodromia; News Items: AI Protein Sequencing, Solving the Bat Cocktail Party Problem, The Extremely Large Telescope, CIA and the Ark of the Covenant, 23&Me Selling Personal Data; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: RFK Jr and Vaccines, Counterintuitive Math Problem; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Extinction Survivors; News Items: Constructed Languages, Exercise and Brain Health, Curiosity Rover Finds Long Carbon Chains, Nanotech Lightsails, Vaccine and Autism Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Technology vs Magic; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Marshall and Cecil Cicirello; News Items: NASA Delays Artemis, Punishing AI, Hybrid Bionic Hand, Pettawatt Electron Beam; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Rewriting Physics; Science or Fiction
Interview with Professor Dave; What's the Word: Psionic; News Items: Screen Time and Mental Health, Exposure to Mass Shootings, Stem Cells for Parkinson's, Brown Fat and Exercise; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Vitamin A and Measles; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Atlantic Shutdown; News Items: Measles Outbreak, Reintroducing Wolves, TIGR-Tas Gene Editing, Blood Donor Who Saved Millions Dies, Star Mergers; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Intricate Web of Civilization; Science or Fiction
Interview with Adam Russell; News Items: Congestion Pricing, AI Therapists, Redefining Dyslexia, Small Modular Reactors for Cargo Ships; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Bird Brains, Indoor Air Quality, Abortions and Infant Mortality, Black Holes Without Singularities, Banning Chemtrails; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Asteroid Hitting the Moon; Swindler's List: Tax Scams; Science or Fiction
News Items: Demographics of Misinformation, The Toll of Fake Research, Dangerous Street Drugs, Nearby Habitable Zone Exoplanet, Reverse Engineering Alien Technology<"br>Who's That Noisy; Science Quiz; Your Questions and E-mails: Starlink Reentries; Science or Fiction
Quickie With Bob: Using Nukes to Deflect Asteroids; News Items: Near Earth Asteroid Threat, Does the Internet Affect Our Memory, Growing City Rat Problem, Do Apes Have a Theory of Mind, NASA Astronauts Harassed by Aliens; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Geyser; News Items: Self Replicating AI, DeepSeek, PEPFAR Freeze, Chemical Looping, Giant Clams and Tiny Algae; Who's That Noisy; You Questions and E-mails: Telepathy Tapes; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue Andrea Jones Rooy; News Items: Unexpected Scientific Results, Trust In Scientists, Red Dye #3, Andromeda Mosaic, Telepathy Tapes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Nick Tiller, News Items: Does Fact-Checking Work, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, The LA Fires, Building Materials for Storing Carbon; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Primate Twins: News Items: Mars Sample Return, Unique Glacial Microbiomes, Transatlantic Tunnel, Alcohol Advisory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Flu Vaccine, Cryptid Mascots; Science or Fiction
Psychic Predictions 2024; News Items: Space Exploration in 2025, Emerging Diseases, Dark Energy May Not Exist, Bigfoot Deaths; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fusion Energy, In Memoriam Addendum; Science or Fiction
2024 Year End Review; Best of 2024; Science Hero and Jackass of the Year; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction
Live from Washington DC; News Items: The Science of Tipping, JonBenet Ramsey Case, Primordial Black Holes, Oldest Alphabet, Food Distribution, Goop Spiral; Live Q&A; Science or Fiction
Interview with Noah Lugeons; News Items: Have We Achieved AGI, Coming Bird Flu, Weekend Warrior Exercise, Theoretical Technosignature, Simulation Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Blood Thicker than Water; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Atomic Scale Precision; News Items: Innate Morality, New Space Station, Climate Hot Spots, Orcas Wearing Hats, Evidence Against Water on Venus; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fisher Scream, CT UFO; Science or Fiction
Interview with Andrea Love; News Items: Near Earth Microquasars, How to Watch Research Misconduct, Genetically Modifying Brains, Largest Prime Number, Magic Amulets, Atlantic Current Climate Tipping Point; Science or Fiction
Interview with Kevin Folta; News Items: Sense of Self in Robots, New Energy Secretary, Finding Planet Nine, Stress and Paranormal Belief; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dumb Idioms; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Mann; Quickie with Evan: Banning Magic; News Items: Armed Police in Schools, Training Surgical Robots, New Imaging Technique, Physician Misinformation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Follow Up Mid-Atlantic Accent; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Cox; Quickie with Bob: Superheavy Element Chemistry; News Items: Biogenome Project, Ancient Solar Magnetic Field, MAHA, Miranda Ocean, Club 27 Myth; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Predicting Earthquakes; News Items: Cell Phones and Brain Cancer, Gold from Earthquakes, Plastic in the Brain, Quantum Neural Network, Marmosets have Names; Your questions and E-mails: Beetles; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Annular; News Items: Europa Clipper, Illusion of Information Adequacy, Seeding the Atmosphere, Exomoon, Psychology of Scare; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Replaceable Batteries; Science or Fiction
Interview with Christian Hubicki; From TikTok: Fake Spacestation; News Items: AI Common Sense, Malnutrition in Africa, Latest Starship Launch, New Metasurface, Exomoon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Myopia; Science or Fiction
EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/skepticsguide Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!Dumbest Thing of the Week: Loch Ness Sonar; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics, Fruit Fly Connectome, Shroud of Turin Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Cars; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Check out Surfshark https://surfshark.com/sgu, Quickie with Bob: Lunar Mantle Partially Molten; News Items: Heart Function in Space, Schizophrenia Drug, Wood Vaulting, AI Finds Nazca Lines, LISA Gravitational Telescope; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Religious Skepticism; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Andrea Jones Roy; What's the Word: Pitch; News Items: Crystal Genome Storage, How Reliable are Political Forecasts, Myopia Epidemic, Biotwang Explained; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Check out Surfsharkhttps://surfshark.com/sguQuickie with Steve: Minimoon; News Items: Dead Internet Theory, Classroom CRISPR, CAM Market, ADHD Increasing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Changing Names, Net Metering and Residential Solar; Science or Fiction
Check out Surfsharkhttps://surfshark.com/sguNews Items: Embryo Models, Carbon Fiber Battery, Zeta Class Supercomputer, UFOs as a Societal Problem; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Residential Solar; Science or Fiction
SGU Celebrates 1000 Episodes; A Skeptical Retrospective: Global Warming, Solar Panels, Cold and Hot Fusion, Medical Quackery, UFOs; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Bunk; News Items: Starliner Update, Therapeutic Roleplaying, The Search for Gravitons, Dinosaur Footprints, Schools vs Cell Phones; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Slippery Slope; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Killing Mammoths; News Items: Water on Exoplanets, Mpox, Darkling Beetles, Moon Gravity Assist, Luminescent Solar Concentrators; Who's That Noisy; From Tik Tok: The Sage Wall; Science or Fiction
Election Scams; News Items: Childhood Vaccines, Alien Solar Panels, Stuck in the ISS, Framing and Global Warming, Promoting Homeopathy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Forrest Valkai; News Items: Mark Edward, Moon Deep Storage, Pursuit of Happiness, Measuring Blood Pressure, First Complex Life on Earth, Life on Venus Update; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: AC vs DC; Science or Fiction
OIympic Controversy; News Items: Progeria Treatment, Solid State Battery, The Cass Review, Mammoth DNA; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Bacterial Flagellum; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Calculus; News Items: Water Harvesting, Chimp Communication, Dark Oxygen, Nuclear Clocks, Creationism Survey; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Logic of God; Science or Fiction
Conspiracy Theories; News Items: Lunar Cave, AI Love, AI Scams, Solar Clams; From TikTok: Antimony and Air Fryers; Your Questions and E-mails: Judith Curry; Science or Fiction
Robot Suicide; News Items: Mars Settlement Simulation, HIV Prevention, COVID Protection Gene, Nuclear Pasta, Eyeball Planet; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Water; Science or Fiction
Simulating Black Holes; News Items: DNA Nano Killbot, Bionic Leg, Neanderthal with Downs, Festival Fail, Kugelblitz Black Holes; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Multivitamin Supplements; News Items: GOES-U Satellites, Risks of Cannabis, Improved Enzymes, Geopathic Stress, Using AI to Predict Alzheimer's; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Pattern App, Processing Grief; Science or Fiction
Juneteenth; News Items: Sun's Magnetic Field About to Flip, Kids and Gun Safety, Gates Goes Nuclear, Nanodroplet Drug Delivery, Potential Dyson Spheres; Who's That Noisy; From TikTok: Free Energy Murders; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Evan: Mysterious Signal; News Items: Ultraprocessed Food, Artemis Update, Interstellar Clouds, Prebiotic Soda, Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob - Drake Equation; News Items: Chang-e-6 Lifts Off from Moon, Adaptogens, Younger Menarche, More Aliens, Metasurface Night Vision; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Megabits and Ancient Pyramids; Science or Fiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Special Report: Canadian Fires and Global Warming; News Items: The Coming of AR, The Causes of Cultural Differences, Space Travel and Brain Health, UFO Whistleblower; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Breaking Placebo Effects; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Brain Stimulation; News Items: Harvesting Energy from Air, Breakups and Hindsight Bias, AI Seance, Monster Stars; Your Questions and E-mails: Attenboroughs, Trees and CO2; Science or Fiction
Live Recording with special guest George Hrab; Quickie with Cara: New York is Sinking; News Items: Fourth Meal, Artemis Update, Making Fuel from Sunlight, Most Dangerous Toy, The Science of Reading, Urban Evolution; AI Voice Simulator, Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Pangenome; News Items: Fake Studies, Germany and Nuclear Power, Moon Landing Hoax Again, Earth Viewed by Alien Civilization; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dunning-Kruger Revisited; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Brushwood; What's The Word: Catacoustics; News Items: AI Mind Reading, 10,000 steps per day, 30 Years of the Web, When Will Aliens Contact Us; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Carnivore Diet; Science or Fiction
News Items: Starship Launch, False Belief Systems, Ashwagandha and other Herbal Drugs, The Evolution of Eukaryotes, Blue Holes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: P-Values vs Effect Sizes; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jon Bornstein of Amprius Technology; News Items: Dopamine Detox, Overprotection May Cause Anxiety, W-Boson Mass, No Health Benefits from Moderate Drinking; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Quantum Random Numbers; News Items: Treating Infections Without Antibiotics, The Science of Clogging, New Kind of Black Hole, First Cell Phone; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Feedback on AI; Science or Fiction
Interview with Blake Lemoine; Quickie with Steve: Batteries with Double the Energy Density; News Items: Mammoth Meatball, Lunar Ice, First Blitzar Observed, England Allows Gene-Edited Crops; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Pleonasm; Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engine, Tik Tok and Misinformation, 3D Printed Rocket, Beethoven's Hair, Uranus Moons and Subsurface Oceans; Follow up: Oumuamua Comet Hypothesis; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Derek Muller from Veritasium; Update: Mask Wearing; News Items: New Lunar Space Suits, End of Life Care, GPT-4 is Here, Terminator Zones, Ohio Chemical Spill
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Feng Shui; News Items: Blood Test for Anxiety, Mars Sample Return, Dinosaur Color; Cosmic Rays and the Pyramids; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, BetterHelp; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Serial Dependence Bias; News Items: 4-Day Work Week, Infants vs AI, Black Holes and Dark Energy, Ghost Hunting Devices, 3D Printing Super Alloys; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Wiseman; Quickie with Jay: Shooting Down UFOs; News Items: On Demand Male Contraceptive; Mask Update; Rogue Intergalactic Black Hole; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Steve: Dwarf Planet Mystery Ring; News Items: Lucky Girl Syndrome, Best Satellite Material, AI and Technosignatures, Sleep Disorders and Paranormal Belief, Earthing Update; Who's That Noisy; Potent Quotables; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Entanglement; News Items: Mummy Goo, Water Crisis and Climate Change, COVID Immunity, Bringing Back the Dodo, Fungal Pandemic; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Less vs Fewer, The Plug Wars; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Aposematism; News Items: NASA Experimental Technology, Procrastination, Bacteria that Eat Plastic, Rubble Pile Asteroids, Traumatic Brain Injury; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Aptera Solar Car; Science or Fiction
News Items: Intermittent Fasting, Tech Devices and Brain Development, Latest Cancer Statistics, Short Sleeper Syndrome, Hungriest Black Hole, Webb's First Exoplanet; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Coffee Pods; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Sock Potatoes; News Items: Roman Concrete, Neuroimaging and Mental Health, Using Tumor Cells to Kill Tumors, Planet Spirals Into Star; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Damascus Steel; Science or Fiction
Psychic Predictions for 2022; News Items: Hydration Myths, Bioplastics, GPS on the Moon, Russia Fears Western Psychics; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
2022 Year in Review; with Guest Rogue: Ian Callanan; Best Science of the Year; Best SGU Segments of the Year; Skeptical Hero of the Year; Skeptical Jackass of the Year; In Memorium; Science or Fiction
Live from Phoenix; News Items: Fusion Breakthrough, Closed Loop Pumped Hydro, Jibber Jabber, Artemis I Returns, Bright Satellites, Cuttlefish Pass Marshmallow Test; Science or Fiction
News Items: Square Kilometer Array, Mantle Plume on Mars, Swimming Dinosaurs, Ancient Environmental DNA, Cat Domestication; Who's That Noisy; Potent Quotables; Your Questions and E-mails: Rocketry Advance; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Milky Way Stellar halo; News Items: Plan to Occupy Moon, Cannabis for Pain, Acupuncture for Backpain, New SI Units, 911 Call Analysis; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Science or Fiction Protocol; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Volcanic CO2; News Items: Developing New Antibiotics, China Completes Space Station, 8 Billion People, New SARS-CoV-2 Variants, Psychogeneology; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and e-mails: Clinically Proven, Billion Dollar Disasters; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Alternative Medicine; News Items: Climate Change in the Classroom, Effects of Climate in US, Closest Black Hole, AWARE II Study of NDEs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Astrology; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Matter in Neutron Star Collisions; News Items: Daylight Saving Time, Humans Working With Robots, Lottery Miracle, Mechanical Neural Network; Special Report: History of Vibrators; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Intermittent Energy; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Richard Saunders; News Items: Trust in Scientists, Reliability of World Energy, Video Games and Cognition, New Aging Technique, NASA UAP Study; What's The Word: Regression; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Jay: Hiding Anti-Vaccine Misinformation; News Items: Electric Universe, Neanderthal Clan, Gorillas and Chimps Friends, Brightest Gamma Ray Burst, Cheating Scandals; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: COVID Vaccines and Bell's Palsy; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Sails of Supertanker; News Items: Neurons Play Pong, Smelling in VR, Technosignatures and Biosignatures, TWA 800 Lawsuit, DART Mission Success; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Hominid vs Hominin; News Items: Nobel Prizes 2022 - Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Homeopathy Lawsuit, Silkworm Pangenome; Quickies with Steve: New ALS Drug, 3D Printing Computer Chips; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Tim Dodd the Everyday Astronaut; Forgotten Superhero of Science: Raye Jean Montague; News Items: Are Fake Meats Sustainable, Why Go Back to the Moon; Science or Fiction
News Items: 2022 Ig Nobels, It's OK to Ask for Help, Bitcoin and Fedimints, Multivitamins for Memory, Refreezing the Poles, Neuro Emotional Technique; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Chess Cheating Follow Up; Science Fiction
Is It Real: Ear Snake; News Items: What Children Believe, Health Effects of Gas Stoves, Neanderthal Brains, Synthetic Microbiome, UFO Videos Classified; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Climate Nihilism; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Frank Drake; News Items: MOXIE Follow Up, Talk More, EMDR Update, Did Giant Meteorites Create Continents, Death by Herbal Remedy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dr. Seema Yasmin; News Items: Hot Summer, Tear Down this Paywall, Volcano Catastrophe, Solar Energy Update; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Report from Italy; News Items: Space-Based Solar Power, Theory of Decision Making, Urban Crops, Protons have Charm; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob: Friction; News Items: The Neuroscience of Politics, Cozy Lava Tubes, Video Games and Well-Being, Invisible Dark Matter; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lord Kelvin, Green Methane, Universe Isotropy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Dunning about UFO Movie; Cara's Cancer Experience; News Items: Global Warming Technologies, SLS Launch, Periodic FRBs, Habitable Super Earths; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Green Steel, T. Rex Arms, Getting Out The Vote, James Webb Latest Images; Who's That Noisy; Quote Quiz; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dr. Dave Stanton; Special Segment: The Fate of Fireworks; News Items: Universal Coronavirus Vaccine, Preserving Ukraine's Landmarks, Detecting Particles with Gravitational Waves, Who Owns the Moon; Your Questions and E-mails: What Is a Skeptic?; Science or Fiction
Quickie with Bob - Gamma Ray Burst Pauses; News Items: Mining the Sea, Science of Abortion, How Many Galaxies; Your Questions and E-mails: Can Dogs Talk; Science or Fiction
Secret of Skinwalker Ranch; News Items: Jupiter Ate Baby Planets, The Risk of Sitting, NASA Joins Study of UAPs, Galapagos Giant Tortoise Not Extinct; What's the Word: Nostrum; Your Questions and E-mails: Testing AIs; Science or Fiction
News Items: Is LaMDA AI Sentient, AI Influencers, Kids Don't Get Cancer Because They Are Unhappy, Free Floating Black Hole; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Infantile Amnesia, The Age of Giants, AI and Traffic Jams, Green Bank Radio Observatory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E=mails: Science of Gun Regulation; Science or Fiction
News Items: Exascale Supercomputer, Dinosaurs Warm or Cold Blooded, Preventing Violent Crime, Revising the Evolutionary Tree, New Optical Illusion; Quickie with Bob: Gato AI; Who's That Noisy; Your questions and E-mails: Reading Systematic Reviews; Science or Fiction
Interview with NASA's Naomi Rowe-Gurney; News Items: Monkeypox, NASA's Mars Plans, Linear Bias; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Health Benefits of Clean Energy, SIDS, Growing Plants in Lunar Soil, Milky Way Black Hole, Gullible Acupuncture Article; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Language and AI, Raw Food Diet; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Best UFO Picture; News Items: AI Artists, Molten Salt Battery, Trolling Science Journalism, Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Action Bias vs Omission Bias; Science Fiction
SGU 17 Year Anniversary; Quickie with Bob: Follow Up Solar Lens; News Items: Sustainable Jet Fuel, Dog Personality, COVID and Cognitive Function, Fertilizer Shortage, Cosmic Expansion; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lemuria; Science or Fiction
The Skeptics Guide to the Future Book Preorder; News Items: Redefining the Second, NFT Medicine, LHC Restart, Energy Psychology, Researching the Paranormal; Who's That Noisy; Corrections: Native vs Endemic; Science or Fiction
News Items: Vaping and Inflammation, Projectile Fusion, Facilitated Communication is Still Pseudoscience, Gamma Rays and Gravitational Waves, AI Emotion Detection; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Communicating Skepticism; Science or Fiction
Live from Boston with guest George Hrab; Over-Under; News Items: CRISPR-On, Achromatic X-Ray Lens, Pareidolia and Gender, Cleaning Solar Panels, Public Media and Democracy; Science or Fiction
Interview with NASA Biologist John Kiss; News Items: Life on Europa, Ancient Skull Surgery, Artemis Stuck, Most Distant Star, Fake News; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Evolution and Racism; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue Andrea Jones Roy; Special Report: Political Science of War; News Items: Transgenic Plants in Space, Homeopathy Trials and Publication Bias, Psychedelic Treatments, Anti-Universe, Plastic in our Blood; Science or Fiction
Daylight Saving Time; News Items: SLS is here, COVID Brain, Origins of Life, Orbiting Solar Power, Antarctic Heat Wave; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michelle Ciulla Lipkin from the National Association for Media Literacy Education; News Items: Why Is Life Symmetrical, Evolution of Language, Moon Rocks, Plasma Laser Lens, International Paranormal Conference; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue, Brian Wecht; News Items: Solid State Batteries, Are Coronal Loops Real, COVID Anosmia, Alcohol and the Brain; Special Report: Update on String Theory; Quickie with Bob: Bacteria Convert Sunlight to Energy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Special Report: Ukraine; News Items: Quantum Gravity Gradiometer, Sea Level Rise, NASA Innovative Projects, Biological Sex; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Hot Jupiters, Jumping To Conclusions, Nanoparticles to Stop Internal Bleeding, Internet 2035; Quickie with Bob: Plasma Physics; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Deaths; Science or Fiction
First Scientists; News Items: Psyche May Not Be The Iron Giant, Planet Around White Dwarf, Falling Birds, HIV Cure; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Girt; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
COVID Update: Vaccine Hesitancy; News Items: Plastic Tipping Point, Balloon Telescope, AI Creativity, More Space Tourism; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID Update: Vaccine Booster; News Items: Ethics of Human Genome Editing, Rogue Planets, Space Tourism, Hydroponic Farming; Your Questions and E-mails: Biodynamic Wine; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Osculant; News Items: FDA Approval of Aducanumab, New Kind of Supernova, Icelandia, Shorter Work Week; Your Questions and E-mails: Faith vs Belief; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Pioneers in Deep Sea Bathyspheric observations; News Items: Noisy Thinking, T-Rex Teens, Video Games and Mental Health, Forming the Milky Way, Dowsing Again; Science or Fictions; Live Questions
COVID Update: Delta Variant; News Items: Detecting Life, Update on Space Launch System, Brain Implant for Pain, Pupil Size and Intelligence; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Food from Air; Science or Fiction
News Items: Bad Science Reporting, Protecting Climate and Species, COVID Pseudoscience in Brazil, Night Vision Glasses, Homeopathic Overdose; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy
What's The Word: Operculum; News Items: Regeneration, Social Media and Memories, 3D Printing Reusable Rockets, Mental Illness and Mass Shootings, Magnetized by Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Wow Signal; Science or Fiction
Lab Leak Theory Revisited; News Items: Minimize Left Turns, Replacing Enamel, Graphene Aluminum Ion Batteries, Bee Venom Therapy Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Left Brain - Right Brain; Science or Fiction
Interview with Mick West; News Items: Non-Replicated Studies Cited More, Maximum Human Lifespan, Graphene Concrete, Atomic Level Microscope, Brain Game Pseudoscience; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID Update; News Items: Butt Breathing, Bullshit and Intelligence, Brightest Cosmic Light, UFOs Again; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Excited Delirium; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Julia Galef; News Items: Brain Implant Interprets Writing, SARS-CoV-2 May Enter Genome, Hypersonic Jets, Sequestering Carbon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Energy Density; Science or Fiction
Interview with Andy Weir; SGU 16 years; News Items: Electric Planes, Website Diversity, Evolution of Multicellularity, NASA Solar Probe, Chinese Space Program; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Correcting Lord Kelvin; News Items: Miracle Bleach Peddler Indicted, Michael Collins, Life on Mars, Political Polarization, Brood X; Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Non-Human Intelligence; Science or Fiction
COVID Update; News Items: Lunar Lander Chosen, Nuclear Fallout, Viral Vector Gene Therapy, Predicting the next Pandemic, FRBs and the Expansion of the Universe; Your Questions and E-mails: Why is North Up?; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID Vaccine Update; News Items: Possible New Force, CRISPRoff, US Power Half Way to Zero Carbon, Sea Meadows Carbon Sink, Pharoah's Curse; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Iszi Lawrence; News Items: Yawning Lions, Air DNA, Oxygenation Events, Infection Proof Implants, Aliens Friend of Foe; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Phenotype; News Items: Satellites and Light Pollution, Heart Size and Space Travel, Self-Replicating Synthetic Cells, Why No Lyme Vaccine, Origins of SARS-CoV-2; Quickie with Evan: New Atomic Clocks; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Avi Loeb; Science or Fiction
News Items: Vaccine Hesitancy, Ocean Worlds, Oumuamua Explained, More Dead Sea Scrolls; Your Questions and E-mails: Dark Matter Debunked?; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Your Number's Up: Pi; News Items: Landing on the Moon, Seeing Thylacines, Losing Yourself, Reading for Fun; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Geert Vanden Bossche, Power vs Energy; Science or Fiction
COVID Update; News Items: Vaccines Prevent Spread, Cave of Dog Evolution, Batteries on the Rise, AI Tech Gap, Nearby Superearth, Sea Slug Self-Decapitation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mechanical Turk; Science or Fiction
News Items: Moxie on Mars, Megafauna Extinction, Earth's Oxygen Atmosphere, When to End a Conversation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: TMS and Depression; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Philip Goff; What's the Word: Percolation; News Items: Perseverance, Communicating While Dreaming, Phage Viruses and Antibiotics, Good the Pandemic; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Cold Snap in Texas; News Items: American Megafauna Extinction, The Fifth Dimension, Bird's Magnetic World, Pentagon UFO Wreckage; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Police and Lie Detection, Saunas and Sweat; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Lie Detectors, Sauna Detox, Black Hole Energy Extraction, Hearing Dead People; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Availability Heuristic; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rita Levi-Montalcini; News Items: Dunning Kruger Validity, Junk on the Moon, Protein Switches, Bipolar Ionization; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Multiverse Revisited, Compliment Sandwich; Science or Fiction
12 SGU Live Stream; News Items: Streaming Carbon Footprint, Assassin Bug Fossil, Stealing Monkeys; Special Report: Solar Gravitational Lens Astronomy; Is It True; Science or Fiction
News Items: Number of Galaxies in the Universe, Logic of the Multiverse, Protecting Lunar Artifacts, Masking After Vaccine, CIA UFO Disclosure; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Q-Anon and Game Design; Science or Fiction
Interview with Phil McAlister from NASA; What's the Word: Degenerate; News Items: Graphene Superconductors, Controlling Superintelligent Machines, Scalar Energy Scam; Who's That Noisy; Your questions and E-mails: Learning Styles,; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Canyons on Mars, Ethics of Brain-Machine-Interface, Belief in Learning Styles, Ravens and Ape Intelligence; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pornstar Names and Security; Science or Fiction
Psychic Predictions; News Items: New SARS-CoV-2 Variant, Satellites Made From Wood, Quantum Computing Advance; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
SGU 2020 Year in Review; Best Science News Items and Pseudoscience of the Year; Favorite SGU Moments; Skeptical Heroes and Jackasses; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update: Vaccine and Home Testing; News Items: Arecibo Telescope, AI Predicting Weather, Manipulated by Robots, Genetically Engineered Pigs, Asteroid Sample Return; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Historicity of Jesus; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Chuck Yeagar dies at 97, The Smellicopter, COVID Anti-Vaxxers, Are We Ready for Aliens; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Protein Folding; Name That Logical Fallacy: More Slippery Slope; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: The Home of Jesus, Ancient Seeds, Treatment for Progeria, Protein Folding Solved, ISS Longevity; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Principia Follow Up; Name That Logical Fallacy: Slippery Slope; Science or Fiction
COVID Vaccine Update; News Items: The Popularity of Principia, Supersized Wind Turbines, A Magnetar is Born, Plant Personality; Special Report: The Truth about Galileo; Whos That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Racial Bias; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Vaccine Update; News Items: Resisting Facial Recognition, Farming Mars, Sound Beaming, Hydrogen from Ammonia; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Rankine Scale; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Vaccine; News Items: 3D Printing with Bacteria, Prebunking, Real Cause of Light Pollution, Physics Paradox Solved, Nuclear Thermal Engines; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Throw-Away Journals; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Amulets for COVID, Right to Try Laws, Earth-Sized Rogue Planet, Forest Regrowth, Lava Planet; Whos That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bee Balls; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Magic Lamp; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Pandemic Holidays, Water on the Moon, Murder Hornets Murdered, High Value Plastic, Exoplanet View of Earth; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Superconductors and Computers, Beef and Climate Change; Interview with James Randi; Science or Fiction
RIP James Randi; Interview with Richard Wiseman; News Items: Mapping the Proteome, Room Temperature Superconductivity, Falling Biodiversity; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Paul Thibado; News Items: Excess Deaths from Pandemic, When Satellites Collide, Humans Evolving Extra Blood Vessel; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Time and Traffic; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; Scott Lilienfeld Remembered; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Circuit Creates Limitless Power, Ouija Board Nonsense; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: German Alphabet and Coal Fired Plants; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; What's The Word: Decrement; News Items: Electric Vehicles and Climate Change, Black Holes and Wormholes, Neanderthals and Y Chromosomes, Paranormal Naval Ships; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Time Travel Paradox; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Better Batteries, Perovskite Solar Cells, Perception of Time, Rewiring the Brain, The 2020 IgNobels; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: June Almeida; News Items: Life on Venus, QAnon, Taxonomy of Lying and Cheating, AI Peer Review; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bear Follow Up, Burning Forests; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: AI to Detect Deep Fakes, The Neuroscience of Stuttering, Undead Fears, Mighty Mouse in Space, Fake Reviews; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Panspermia Again; Science or Fiction
Interview with Tim Dodd-The Everyday Astronaut; Covid-19 Update; News Items: Nuclear Diamond Batteries, Instant COVID Testing, Blanets, Detecting Alien Biochemistry; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Stargazing Permit; Science or Fiction
Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19; News Items: Recyclable Plastic, Honey Cure, Super Endurance, Supernova and Mass Extinction; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Vibrations for Stress; Science or Fiction
COVID Update; News Items: Oleandra Snake Oil, Moon Capsules, Vision Debate, Black Dwarf Supernova, Pentagon UFO Task Force; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Do Your Own Research; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Quackery in Afghanistan, The Russian Vaccine, CNO Neutrinos, TESS Exoplanet Mission, Huge Lave Tubes; Your Questions and E-mails: Benford's Law; Science or Fiction
Live from NECSS 2020; What's the Word: Perseverance; Your Number's Up: Absolute Zero; News Items: Climate Sensitivity, Massive Research Fraud, Sexual Parasitism and Immune Function; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: 5G and COVID-19, The Technology of Getting to Mars, Prayer is Not Medicine, Fake Mediums; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Predicting the Pandemic; 5-10 Years - Battery Breakthrough; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Human Curiosity, Twitter Bans QAnon, Uncuttable material, Bunny Ebola; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Shellenberger Letter; Science or Fiction
Interview with Stephon Alexander; Grant Imahara Dies; News Items: Dog Years Myth, Fighting Climate Change with Crushed Rock, Perception and Filtering, Unused EM Spectrum; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Roundness Bias, Pooled Testing, Insect Feed, Nuclear Thermal Propulsion; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pasteurization, Police Shooting Retraction; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; What's the Word: Water Caustics; News Items: Raw Milk, Monster Quasar, Asteroid Really Killed the Dinosaurs, Visualizing Data; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 and Air Purifiers; News Items: Electrified Masks, Black Neutron Stars, Vaccine Nationalism, Tennis Star Gets COVID-19; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Where Did the Towers Go; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Brain on a Chip, Twistronics, Drake Remix, Editing Human Embryos; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Policing Use of Force; Science or Fiction
Interview with Angela Saini; COVID-19 Update; News Items: Seeing Color, fMRI Research, Fast Radio Burst Origin; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: ISS Update; Science or Fiction
Update on COVID-19; News Items: More Accurate Time of Death, SpaceX and ISS, Police Brutality Breeds Distrust, Journalists and UFOs, Will Your Dog Rescue You; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Talking and Breathing; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Loners and Swarms, Dinosaur Asteroid Impact, Backward Time Universe, Why Beards, Solving Space Junk; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Electrical Stimulation Treatment; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue David Cheeseman; COVID-19 Update; News Items: Online Symptom Checkers, Crewed Dragon Final Test, Robot Boots, Small Modular Nuclear Reactors; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Inventor of E-mail; Science or Fiction
Interview with Gerald Posner; COVID-19 Update; News Items: Do Facemasks Work, Carbon Dioxide and the Pandemic, Distrust of Expertise Online, Closest Black Hole; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: R-Naught; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Richard Saunders; COVID-19 Update; News Items: Wandering Magnetic Poles, Air Plasma Jet Propulsion, Hydrogen Breathers, Murder Hornets, Prayer for COVID-19; Premium Wine Cards; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: New Row of Periodic Table, Safest Coffee, Pentagon UFO Videos, Malaria Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Informed Consent; Science or Fiction
Covid-19 Update; News Items: The Science Frontier, Bizarre Bacteria, UV Light and Covid-19, Diamond Energy Storage, Reproducing Cactus Coral; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: False Negatives; Science or Fiction
Covid-19 Update; News Items: Coronavirus Deaths in New York, Sterilizing Masks, Oldest String, Demand Characteristics, Lunar Radio Telescope; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Potent Venom; Science or Fiction
Interview with Kevin Peter Hand; COVID-19 Update; What's The Word: Fomite; News Items: 5G and COVID-19, The TP Hubbub, Mining Space, Comet Atlas; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: Don't Drink Poison, Decoding Speech from Brainwaves, Using Urine to Build a Moon Base, Evolution of Land Plants; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
COVID-19 Update; News Items: COV-2 Has Natural Origin, Snake Oil Kills, Fake Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed, Cannabinoids for Acute Pain, Why Do Females Live Longer; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
5-10 Years - Arsenic Based Life; News Items:Hoarders of the Pandemic, Evolution of Anxiety, Extreme Depth of Focus Lens, Predicting the Present; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Neonatal Vitamin K; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Moiety; News Items: Shorter Day in Past, Handwashing, CAM for Coronavirus, Lift Follow Up; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Ann Druyan; Swindler's List: Tax Scams; News Items: Dinosaur Proteins and DNA, Wetlands vs Levees, Largest Explosion; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Your Number's Up: The Speed of Light; News Items: How Planes Fly, Binaural Beats, Non-Breathing Animal, Rocketman Dies in Crash; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Seahawks, SGU 2035; Science or Fiction
News Items: Oldest Crater and Snowball Earth, The Broomstick Challenge, Hypoallergenic Cats, Betelgeuse, Supernova, and Neutrinos, Genetics of Dating; Science or Fiction
News Items: Coronavirus Update, Proxima B Climate, Drug Development with AI, Frame Dragging System, Scream Therapy; George Hrab Asks the Rogues Questions; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Ablation; News Items: Does Information have Mass, Fight Fat with Salt and Ice, Where Does Poop Go, Solar Scam; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Kinesio Tape; Science or Fiction
News Items: New Coronavirus, Proxima C, Wulong bohaiensis, Cancer Discovery, Marshmallow test revisited, Stress and Gray Hair; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Joe Carvalko; News Items: Xenobots, Goop on Netflix, Oldest Material on Earth, UFOs and National Security, Goldilocks Stars; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: England and Wales; Science or Fiction
Psychic Predictions 2019 Review; News Items: Virtual Humans, GM Trees, Australian Fires, Engrams, Puffin Tool Use; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live from LA with special guest, George Hrab; Talking to true believers; Science or Fiction
Live from Melbourne Australia; Your Number's Up: Hubble's Constant; News Items: Does wearing a face mask prevent disease?, Perineum Sunbathing, Redacting Animal Sex, The SCAN Scam, Horizontal Gene Transfer and Plants, Measles Update, Tracking Meteors; Australian Pseudoscience: Chiropractors, Clean Coal, and Supplementation; Science or Fiction
Live from New Zealand Skeptics Conference; News Items: Place With No Life, Superhydrophobicity, Insect on Mars, Political Anti-science, Does Adversity Increase Resilience, Climate Tipping Points, Oldest Dog, Pathway to Conspiracy Theories; Science or Fiction
Special Guest - Fraser Cain of Universe Today; Open discussion with Fraser about all things astronomy; Science or Fiction
Special Guest - Richard Saunders; News Items: Sex Robots, Acupuncture Points Don't Exist, Nuclear Rockets, Fake News and False Memory; Psychic Detectives in Australia; Science or Fiction
Special Guests - Richard Wiseman and George Hrab; Wiseman Interviews the Rogues on Skepticism; Audience Q&A Science or Fiction
What I Learned: Antimicrobial Copper; News Items: AI Will to Survive, First Cyborg, Confessions of an Astrologer, National Parks and Mental Health, Meat from Air; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Craniometry Follow Up; Science or Fiction
5-10 Years: Growing Livers; News Items: Bacterial Colonies, Does Music Make You Smarter, Measles and Immunity, Bill Maher Anti-Vaxxer; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Starship, New Kind of Black Hole, Organic Farming and Golden Rice, Craniometry; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Scam, Solar Minimum; Science or Fiction
Special Segment: Are We All Hypocrites; News Items: Prime Editing, Aluminum Air Batteries, The Blob, Holotropic Breathwork; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Leucism; News Item: New NASA Spacesuits, Recycling Nuclear Fuel, Galactic Eruption, Searching for Earhart's Plane; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on Meat; Science or Fiction
Interview with Bruce Hood; 5-10 Year Follow Up: Fairy Circles; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine; Electric Jet Engines; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Your Numbers Up: 666; News Items: Red Meat Controversy, Reusing Batteries, Bronze Age Baby Bottles, Planet Nine Black Hole; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Flu Vaccine and Herd Immunity; Science or Fiction
5-10 Year: Dinochicken; News Items: Fat Shaming, Warp Drive, TVs and Phones Communicating, Second Interstellar Object; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Survivorship Bias; Science or Fiction
News Items: 42, Eradicating Polio, Reverse Aging, Red Mercury, Crystal Healing, Biggest Neutron Star; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Super Lightening, 20-Year Battery, NDE Study, CRISPR Trials, Holy Water Trial; Quickie: Loch Ness DNA; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Carrington Event 160 Year Anniversary, Storm Area 51, Hurricane Dorian, Australopithecus anamensis, Human Effects on Environment, Genome Wide Association Study of Same Sex Behavior, Pluto Is Still Not a Planet; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Extragalactic Exoplanets, Denisovan Teeth, Climate Change and Clouds, Planting Trees; What Do You Want For Your Funeral; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
5-10 Years: Solar Roads; News Items: Wind Turbines, Bleach for Autism, Grain-Free Dog Food, Terraforming Mars; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Your Numbers Up, News Items: Banana Fungus, Epstein Conspiracy, Weber's Law; Who's That Noisy; Changing the Calendar; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Video Game Violence, Public Trusts in Scientists, Robot Workers, New Type of Star, Detecting Planet Cores; Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: TMT Follow Up; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Buffering; News Items: Signals from Earth, Acupuncture for Angina, Asteroid Near Miss, Rainmakers, Lyme Conspiracy; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Law of Truly Large Numbers; Science or Fiction
Whaddya Know: Beryllium; News Items: Telescope Protests, LightSail 2, Free Speech vs Professional Licensing, Autism Genetic, Bird Conspiracy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live from NECSS; News Items: Apollo Video, Moon Strategy, Artificial Gravity, High Resolution MRI of the Brain, Gorilla Society; SGU Taste Test; Science or Fiction
5-10 Years: Recorded Future; News Items: Eating Jellies, Rebutting Denialism, Cancer Quackery on YouTube, Detecting Earthquakes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science; News Items: The Bystander Effect, Drones on Titan, Simulating the Universe; Your Questions and E-mails: Lactic Acid, Climate Change; Science or Fiction
Interview with Evan Saitta about Dinosaur Proteins; News Items:Deep Space Atomic Clock, Printing Vaccines, Carbon Capture, Horny Kids; Who's That Noisy; E-mails and Questions: Thai Language, Audio Pareidolia; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Wiseman; 5-10 Years: Contact Lens TVs; News Items: Radioactive Energy Cards, Hungry Brain Puppy Dog Eyes; Who's That Noisy; Chernobyl Follow Up; Science or Fiction
News Items: Theory of Everything, FBI Bigfoot Files, Starlink, Evaluating Chernobyl; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Closest Planet, Married Bliss; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Anne Dagg; News Items: WHO and TCM, Solar Cell Defect Solved, Mutation Affects HIV and Flu, Defense Lasers; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Closest Planet; Science or Fiction
News Items: Hyperloop Update, Smart Clothing, Misreporting Medical News, Murray Gell-Mann Dies, Happiness; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bandwidth; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Life on Mars, Stem Cell Scams, Mandatory Vaccines, NASA Moon Base Plans; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Jevon's Paradox; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dark Matter specialist, Bjeorn Penning; News Items: 5G is Coming, Hardy Exoplanets, Moonquakes, Don't Farm Octopuses; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
We are excited to introduce you to Bill Nye's new podcast Science Rules! Bill takes phone calls and answers peoples questions about anything science related. Science Rules! Is out NOW - find it in your favorite podcast app.
Interview with Daniel Clark, Director of Behind the Curve; News Items: Reporting UFOs, Phosphorene Nanoribbons, Hearables; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Live from Bethlehem with guest George Hrab; News Items: Reading the Brain, JAMA on Medical Misinformation, Thanos Apocalypse, Fake Gay Cure; Skeptical Experiences; Science or Fiction
News Items: Energy Free Cooling, First Molecule, Reviving Pig Brains, Fake Miracle Cure; Who's That Noisy; Your questions and E-mails: Journal Reliability; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
News Items: FDA on GMO Labeling, Tabletop Fusion, Light Pollution, Another Mars Bacteria Claim, Biosynthetic Computer; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Flying Cars; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Quantum Acupuncture, Flying Cars and Space Planes, Picture of Black Hole, Quantum Engine; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Mexican Wave, Plastic Bags; Science or Fiction
News Items: Fossils from the KT, Brain Scans as Evidence, Mars Methane Mystery, AI Designed Materials; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: NASA Space Suits, Flat Earth Fail; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue - Tyler Black; News Items: Back to the Moon, Get Rid of Statistical Significance, Alcosynth, Predicting Suicide, Coal vs Renewables; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Whaddya Know: Animals and Music; News Items: Black Holes and Space Travel, Sugary Drinks and Heart Disease, Electrical Stimulation for Depression; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Questions and E-mails: Atomic Clocks, GMOs; Science or Fiction
Interview with Peter de Jager; News Items: Release of Golden Rice, How Intelligent is AI, Atomic Clock May Replace GPS System; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Audio book, Champing at the Bit; Science or Fiction
News Items: Fake Sex Doctor, Psychic Sting, Homeopaths in Honduras, Seeing Infrared; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Global Warming Edition; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Plenum; News Items: Expanded DNA Code, Quark Matter, Ancient Mobility, OneWeb Flies, Signature of Consciousness; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Warning About Big Data in Science; Live from the AAAS: What Is Scientific Skepticism; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy; Follow Up on Jupiter's Magnetic Field and Insect Apocalypse
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Alice Lee; News Items: Caring About Robots, Concrete Battery, Insect Collapse, Asteroid Mining; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Who Was Robin Hood, Medical Errors, Magnetic North Pole, Celery Juice, CRISPR Update; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Prosody; News Items: Cure for Cancer?; Liquid Fuel from Sunlight; Metallic Wood; Oldest Rock; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Whaddya Know: Periodic Table; News Items: Measles Hotspot, New Atom Smasher, Mapping the Brain, Animals in Winter; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
News Items: Microbes on Mars, Memory Works Backwards, Elephants without Tusks, Dunning Kruger and GMOs, Room Temperature Superconductivity; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Climate Change Around the World, Dangers of AI; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Nancy Grace Roman; News Items: Face Scanning for Disease, Cancer Stats and Crowdfunding Quackery, Cleaning Up Ocean Trash, Butterfly Decline, When Galaxies Collide; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Alpha Go Correction, CIA Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Predictions for 2018 and 2019; News Items: Ultima Thule, Magic and Pseudoscience, AI Breakthrough; Science or Fiction
2018 Year End Review; Best and Worst of 2018; SGUs Visit to the CIA; Science News of the Year; Skeptical Hero and Jackass of the year; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction
Live from London; SGU Guide to Americanisms; Which Movies Need Sequels; Air Dryers vs Paper Towels; Classic Pseudoscience: ESP, Piltdown Man, Loch Ness Monster, UFOs; Science or Fiction
Interview with Susan Gerbic; Guest Rogue Brian Trent; What's the Word: Philopatry; News Items: Release Active Drugs, Voyage 2 Update, Fast Radio Bursts Alien Hypothesis, China's Moon Mission, The Chickenocene; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Nick Pyenson; Living in the era of fake news; News Items: Back to the Moon, Gene Editing Babies; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Global Warming Report, The New Kilogram, Insight Mars Lander; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Atlantis Claim; Science or Fiction
QED 2018 Private Show with guest rogue George Hrab; Audience Q&A Personal Heroes; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Devin Bray; What's the Word: Cybernetics; News Items: Earth's Dusty Satellites, How We Think, The Mad Russian, Engineering Photsynthesis; Is Stuff Real; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's The Word: Agglutination; News Items: Oumuamua Update, Glasses for Color Blindness, Anti-Gravity, NASA Retires Kepler, New Controversial Opioid; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails; Science or Fiction
Live from Cambridge; Complete the Science Headline; News Items: Reliability vs Validity, Soyuz Failed Launch, Hot Jupiters, Bottom Baryons, UFO Government Waste, What Is Psychopathy; Science or Fiction
Live from QED 2018; Special Guest: Michael Marshall; Name That Pseudoscience; News Items: GMO-Free Himalayan Salt, Drugs in your Supplements, Fast Radio Burst Update, How Many Faces Do You Know, The Surface of Europa, Black Holes and Dark Matter, Latest IPCC Report; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Epistocracy; News Items: Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxies, Monkeys and Wolves, WHO and TCM, Iron Age Sword, HPV Vaccine Update; Most Desirable Artifact; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superhero of Science: Eunice Newton Foote; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry, Survey on New Age Beliefs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Traumatic Memory; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Pathognomonic; News Items: Oldest Animal, Mosquito Apocalypse, Asteroid Pics, Croydon Cat Killer, Octopuses on Ecstasy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Flu Season, That's Crazy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Basionym; News Items: Space X Flying to the Moon, Proxima b Weather, Wasps Are Important Too, Star vs Planet, Personality Types; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Trophic; News Items: Bogus Personality Tests, Pluto Revisited, Light Sails, Growing Brains; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live from DragonCon; SGU Book Update; News Items: CRISPR Halts Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Nudging Asteroids into Earth Orbit, Illusory Control, Evidence of Previous Universes, Shatner on VR, Seeing Only Movement; Science or Fiction
NECSS Private Show with George Hrab and Hai Ting; News Items: Why We Yawn, Motivated Reasoning vs Lazy Thinking, Isreali Moon Probe; Questions from George; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Transfect; News Items: Room Temperature Superconductor Questioned, Teleology and Conspiracies, Kratom Poisoning, Neanderthal Denisovan Child, Neutron Stars; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Phenomenology; News Items: Dunning Kruger Anti-vaccine Edition, Alien Abduction Stories, Smallpox Drug, Roundup Verdict, Schwarzite; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Arable Land; Science or Fiction
Interview with Sean Carroll; What's the Word: Orthogonal; News Items: Remembering is Seeing, Hothouse Tipping Point, Novel Amino Acids, Weird, Rogue Planet, Corporal Punishment; Who's that Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Monkeys and Apes; Science or Fiction
Interview with Robert Kurson, author of Rocket Men; What's the Word: Stylometry; News Items: Terraforming Mars, Shifty Eyes, Scutoid; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Alethea Dean; What's the Word: Stridulation; News Items: Lake on Mars, Reanalyzing the Drake Equation, In Search Of Reboot, More Energy Nonsense; Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction
Live from NECSS 2018 with special guest Bill Nye; News Items: Time Machine, Iceman's Last Meal, Training for Mars, Cosmic Ray Source, Virtual Reality Therapy, Testing Gravity; What's the Word: Definitions; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Etiology; News Items: Quantum Woo, Probing the Sun, Bullet Proof, Spider Ballooning, Hogweed; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bio-Degradable Plastics; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Adsorption; News Items: Harlan Ellison Dies, Complex Organic Molecules on Enceladus, Clever Crows, New England Supervolcano, Marshmallow Test Revisited; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Non-Ionizing Radiation; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Endophyte; News Items: DNA Testing, Anti-Smart Meter Pseudoscience, Keeping Ahead of the Expanding Universe, Roots of Alcoholism; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Brit-Bashing; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Vector; News Items: Video Game Addiction, Continent of Stability, Return of Astrology, Antarctic Ice; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Polio Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rachel Carson; News Items: Lying About Golden Rice, Solar Roads Again, Polio Comeback, Fastest Supercomputer; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Hermeneutic; News Items: Sterile Neutrino, Tardigrade Lifespan, Louis Vuitton Rainmaker, Panspermia Follow Up; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Balance of Nature; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Irruptive; News Items: Colonizing Mars, Multivitamin Meta-analysis, AI Diagnostics, Musk's Twitter Breakdown; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jennifer Ouellette; What's the Word: Sapient vs Sentient; News Items: Cancer Quackery Death, EM Drive Follow Up, Loch Ness DNA, Largest Salamanders; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Panspermia; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Consanguineous; News Items: Yanny or Laurel, Google Duplex, Falcon-9 Launches, Coffee a Carcinogen, Alien Octopuses; Science or Fiction
Interview with Adam Becker; What's the Word: Epiphyte; News Items: Knowledge of Evolution, Hawaii Volcanic Activity, Spider Silk and Steel, Toxic Moon Dust; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Ethan Winer; What's the Word: Fallacy; News Items: Flipping Magnetic Fields, Self-Assembling Space Telescope, JFK Headshot, Growing Brains; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Annealing vs Tempering; Science or Fiction
Interview with Tobias Fuchslin; What's the Word: Annealing; News Items: Echochambers, Organic Solar Cells, Self-Cleaning Coating; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Communicating without Speaking, Nutrition Pseudoscience, Rare Earths, Eating Plastic; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Acidic Food; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Demon; News Items: 666, Buzz Aldrin and Aliens, AI Good and Evil, The Business of Exorcism, The Power of Satan; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Acidic vs Alkiline diet; Science or Fiction
Interview with Mark Lynas; What's the Word: Atavism,; News Items: Cell Phones and Cancer, Robot Bees on Mars, Largest Dinosaurs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Math, Interstitium Pseudoscience; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Emily Rosa; News Items: Vitamin C Myth, Atacama Mummy, Death by Apitherapy, New Views of Jupiter; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Vagility; News Items: NASA's Hammer, ESP on CBS, Free Speech; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Meat Consumption; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Brenda Miller; News Items: Stephen Hawking Dies, The Brain's Predictive Coding, Daylight Savings Time, Fusion in 15 years?; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Duct Tape and Amelia Earhart; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Heritable vs Inheritable; News Items: Not Too Many Too Soon, Lab Grown Meat, Seeing Around Corners, Opiods No Better; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff; News Items: Low-Fat vs Low-Carb, Moa Genome, Superatomic Semiconductors, Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Meatleg Lives, Conspiracy Theorists; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Oscar Micheaux; News Items: Satellite Broadband, Superbrain Yoga, Video Game Violence; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Cellulose and the Analemma; Science or Fiction
News Items: Win Against Homeopathy, Life Beneath the Ice, Illuminati, Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots; What's the Word: Presbyopia; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Analemma; News Items: Falcon Heavy Launch, Egyptian Dinosaurs, Extragalactic Planets, Vulnerability to Fake News; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: GMOs and Glyphosate; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Dunning and Emery Emery; News Items: Portable DNA Sequencing, Alternative Treatment for Bears, Acoustic Tractor Beam, Super Blue Blood Moon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Driverless Cars; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Saunders; What's the Word: Altricial; News Items: CES 2018, Space Lasers, Rainbow Dinosaur; Your Questions and E-mails: Denying Depression; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Wiseman; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sophie Wilson; News Items: Black Death, Britt Hermes Lawsuit, Fake News Follow Up; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Eutrophication; News Items: Astronaut John Young Dies, Raw Water, Space X Loses Satellite, Human WiFi, Cancer Deaths Declining; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Hormesis; Predictions 2017; News Items: Protein Folding Breakthrough, Nitrate-Free Bacon, Donkey Hide Snakeoil, Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Accretion; News Items:FDA Regulates Homeopathy, Pentagon UFO Videos, How the Flu Kills, CDC Word Hubbub; Who's That Noisy; Interview with Joe Nickel; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Kathleen Drew-Baker; News Items: Space Policy Directive 1, Group Perception, Ticks Dinosaurs and Amber, Antarctic Extremophiles, Water Cloak; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Earthing; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Digitigrade; News Items: Nearly Complete Hominid Skeleton, Before the Big Bang, The Causes of Science Denial, This is Your Head in a Particle Accelerator; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Chunking, Follow Up on Net Neutrality; Science or Fiction
Interview with Britte Hermes; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Hisako Koyama; News Items: Speciation Event Observed, UK Water Companies Use Dowsing, NET Neutrality, Interstellar Visitor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
CSICon Special Recording, with Special Guest: George Hrab; Skeptical Ghost Stories; You Don't Know Me Bro; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Swartz Rose; News Items: Scientists' Warning, Smart Pills, Fact Checking on Facebook, Fast Electron Emissions; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: German; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Ontology; News Items: Risks of Gluten Free, Wormholes, Reversing Cell Aging, Gadolinium Law Suits, Universal Flu Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lava Tubes; Science or Fiction
Live from CSICon 2017, with special guest, Dr. Rachael Dunlop; What's the Word: Epistemology; News Items: Halloween Bad Reporting, Skeptical Activism Down Under, Conspiracy Thinking, Lava Tubes on the Moon, T. rex Arms, Raccoon Intelligence, Millennials and Religion; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Frances Glessner Lee; News Items: Debunking Works, Mindfulness Pseudoscience, Columbus Myths, Missing Matter; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thermos Physics; Science or Fiction
Interview with Pamela Gay; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Martin Jim Aitken; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physiology, Physics and Chemistry; Rocket Travel; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Cis-Trans; News Items: Chocolate Fungus, Mood Affects Flu Shot, Waking from Coma, International Moon Mission, Do Jellies Sleep; Who's that Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Celsius vs Fahrenheit; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Polymorphism; News Items: Pirates Ruined the Metric System, New Global Warming Estimate, Quackademic Medicine, Conspiracy Theories are for Losers, Asteroid Mining; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Gravity Train, Space Junk; Science or Fiction
Interview with Massimo Pigliucci; What's the Word: Occult; News Items: Equifax Data Breach, Cassini Grand Finale, Larges Void in the Universe, Microplastics; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live from DragonCon 2017 with special guest Brian Brushwood; Special: Costumes at DragonCon; News Items: The Benefits of Vaccines, Conspiracy Personality, Hurricane Harvey, Oldest Hominin Footprints, Heavy Element Creation, More False Claims from Goop, Deorbiting Space Debris, Electric Car Legislation; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Liminal; News Items: 40 Years of Voyager, Ichthyosaur, Strongest Resistive Magnet, GMO and Dunning Kruger, Banning Mention of Global Warming; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Eran Segev; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Baltz; News Items: Vitamins and Cancer, Panera Marketing Fear, Radio Dish Noise, Outcomes and Gay Marriage, Cyborg Bacteria; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Syzygy; Your Questions and E-mails: Farts; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Eclipse Terminology; News Items: Concrete Gravity Trains, Backfire Effect, Polio Vaccines from Tobacco Plants, Antibiotic Resistance, Alternative Medicine Kills; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Atheist Study Follow up; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jeffrey Hall; What's the Word: Gestalt; News Items: Wiring Taste, Portable Neutrino Detector, Are Atheists Moral, Anthrax Killing Chimps; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Almonds; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mildred Dresselhaus; News Items: Tracking Asteroids, Vaccinating Pets, The Return of Laetrile, Robot Safecrackers; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Recursive; Your Questions and E-mails: Sonic Boom; Science or Fiction
In Memorium: Joe Novella; News Items: NFL Brains, Supersonic Flight, Soft Engines, Measles Vaccination, Moon Express; What's the Word: Parsimony; Science or Fiction
Live from NECSS 2017; Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders; Greetings from the ISS; News Items: The One Law of Robotics, Eusaurophargis dalsassoi, Gravitational Waves and Extra Dimensions, Homeopathy Ban from Pharmacies, Illness from Placentophagy, Planck's Constant, Cleaver Therapy, Disrupting Microphones; What's the Word: Portmanteau; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Sex and DNA; Science or Fiction
Live Recording from NECSS 2017 with special guest: George Hrab; News Items: Glyphosate Update, Chimp vs Human Strength, Sub-2 Hour Marathon, NASA vs Goop; Skeptical Spoonerisms; Science or Fiction; Live Questions: LED Lights, SGU E-mails, Snopes.
Guest Rogue: Kavin Senapathy; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Virginia Apgar; News Items: Organic Effect, Hawking on Mars, Science in Court, Solar Eclipse; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Nominal; News Items: Relational Reasoning in Computers, Big Bang Problems, Breatharians, Biodynamic Farming, Coconut Snakeoil; Questions and E-mails: Metabolism Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Breatrice Shilling; News Items: Deep Brain Stimulation, Fasting Exercise, The Sixth Extinction, Earliest Modern Human, Stars Born in Pairs; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Volatile; Questions and E-mails: CRISPR Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Movie Review - Alien: Covenant; News Items: Dinosaur Proteins Questioned, Another Gravitational Wave, Bigelow on Aliens, Don't Put Wasps Nests In Your Vagina; Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction
Interview with Ed Stone; What's the Word: Epigenetics; News Items: Mandela Effect, Farming Land Use, Trump's Science Budget; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bible Time Frame; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Julius Youngner; News Items: Nature and Nurture of Numbers, Daryl Bem Follow Up, Smart Meter Hubbub; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Conceptual Penis; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Degenerate; News Items: Are You Being Watched?, Mechanism Behind Dark Energy, Dinosaur Extinction, Rational Arguments for God?; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Indigenous Science, AI Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Lillian Gilbreth; News Items: Satellite Broadband, Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience, Measles Outbreak, Giant Gas; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Confabulate; Your Questions and E-mails: Electric Universe; Science or Fiction
Interview with Marc Randazza; What's the Word: Exaptation; News Items: Exercise Metabolism, Earliest Humans in Americas, Cancer Evolution, David Young Update; Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Peggy Whitson; News Items: Worms That Eat Plastic, Artificial Photosynthesis, Historical Jesus, Hobbit Update; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Reovirus; News Items: Moisture Extinction, Life Without Oxygen, Mind Reading Hype, Alex Jones - Performance Artist; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Processed Food; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Patricia Bath; News Items: Deep Life, Short and Long Term Memory, Flat Earth, Cassini's Grand Finale; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Convergent; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Teleology; News Items: TM and Violence, Citizen Science and Planet 9, Tentacle Robot, Boeing Deep Space Plans, Death by Turmeric; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Doctors Prescribing Homeopathy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Jane Cooke Wright; News Items: Redrawing Dinosaur Clade, Bird Evolution, Elon Musk on AI, Smelling Breast Cancer; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Frisson; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Joshie Berger; What's the Word: Factoid; News Items: Cybersecurity and Neuromorphic Chips, Chiropractic Quackery, ASMR; Special Reports: Animals in the Bible; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Fractal; News Items: New Hominid Skulls, Solar Roadway Disaster, Dark Anti-Vax Conspiracies, Fast Radio Bursts and Aliens; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Tea and Coffee Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Valentina Tereshkova; News Items: The Science March, Giving Mars a Magnetic Field, Death of the Liberation Procedure, Supersolids; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Saturn V vs Falcon Heavy, Moving the Goalpost vs No True Scotsman; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Homologous; News Items: Nightmare Robot, Returning to the Moon, Digital Age Brain Disorders, The ADHD Controversy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Tinnitus Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Interview with Greg Dash; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Wang Zhenvi; News Items: Restoring Hearing, Smartphone Tricorder, Science of Smoking Bans, Seven Earth-like Exoplanets; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Pathology; Science or Fiction
Lawsuit Update; News Items: Monkey Mirror Test, Immigration and Crime, Human Embryo Editing, Mission to Europa; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Momentum in Sports; Science or Fiction
Interview with Acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen; What;s the Word: Impedance; News Items: Super Bowl Drones, GM Wheat, Security Chips; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rudolf Diesel; News Items: Human Pig Chimera, Life Review Experience, Communicating with the Locked In, Homeopathic Teething Products, Metallic Hydrogen; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Centrifugal Force; Science or Fiction
Movie Review: Hidden Figures; News Items: Restricting Science Communication, Fish Scales, Another Bogus Acupuncture Study, Video Games and Violence; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Atom; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dorothy Andersen; News Items: E-Waste, IBM Predicts Future Tech, Returning to the Moon, Two Trillion Galaxies; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with David Gorski; What's the Word: Parallax; News Items: Colliding Stars, Countering Fake News, Relaxing Music, A New Organ?; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dino Tail Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: George Hrab; In Memoriam: Carrie Fisher and Vera Rubin; Psychic Predictions; News Items: Motivated Reasoning, Deep Sea Discoveries; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
SGU 2016 Year in Review; Favorite Science News of 2016; Best and Worst of 2016; Skeptical Heroes and Skeptical Jackass of 2016, In Memorium; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Switek; Movie Review: Arrival; News Items: Better Outcomes from Female Doctors, Wet Ceres, Light from Anti-matter, Purple Food; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Barbara Liskov; News Items: Trust of Scientists and GMOs, Cryogenic Energy Storage, Deorbiting Space Junk; What's the Word: In Situ; Your Questions and E-mails: Premium Gas, Porn Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Interview with Marty Klein; What's the Word: Phylogenetic; News Items: High Density Supercapacitors, Adaptation vs Evolution, Instacharge Scam; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Maria Telkes; News Items: Fake News and Online Reasoning, Santa Myth, Farmer Ants, Diamond Batteries; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Endemic; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Autopoiesis; News Items: Improving Photosynthesis, Turkey Domestication, EM Drive, Tweaking Mitochondria, Orca Evolving; Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Percy Lavon Julian; News Items: FTC and Homeopathy, Stoern Liquidates, STDs Rising, Finding Antibiotics in the Genome; What's the Word: Isotropy; Your Questions and E-mails: P-hacking; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Xerophile; News Items: Wireless Brain-Spine Interface, Arctic Ice, Quantum Time, Hydrinos and Cold Fusion, Male Birth Control Study; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Democratization of Knowledge; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Wecht; What's the Word: Relict; News Items: Expanding Universe Follow Up, Mystery Human Ancestor, Alaskan Lake Monster; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Memory, Halloween Candy Tampering; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: David Young; News Items: Alien Signals, Patient Zero, Expanding Universe, Mars Probe Crash; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Stanislav Petrov; News Items: Musk, Obama and Mars; Encyclopedia of Life; Science and Colonialism; Who's that Noisy; What's the Word: Taphonomy; Science or Fiction
Interview with David Pratt; What's the Word: Autophagy; News Items: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics, Longevity Debate; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Healthy Foods; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rosa Smith Eigenmann; News Items: Hawaii Telescope Hubbub, Marijuana Changes the Brain, Brain Training and Power Poses, Listening to Experts; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: ultracrepidarian; Your Questions and E-mails: Net Metering; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Apophenia; News Items: Europa Venting, Piezoelectric Roads, Unhackable, Change in Astrological Sign; Who's that Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Elizabeth Barber; News Items: Tardigrade Radiation Resistance, Resistant Lice, Evolving Bacteria, Moon Formation; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Superfecundation; Your Questions and E-mails: Lightning Strikes; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Ian Harris; Special Report: Comedy and Skepticism; News Items: GMO Brinjal, Do Dogs Understand Language, FDA Bans Antibacterial Soap, Space X Explosion; What's the Word: Comorbidity; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue Brian Brushwood; News Items: Lightning Reindeer Death, Space Train, Juno at Jupiter, Evolving Tasmanian Devils, Finding Galactic Missing Mass; What's the Word: Thanatosis; Science or Fiction
Interview with Seth Shostak; Forgotten Superheroes of Science:Peter Fleming; News Items: NASA One Year Mars Simulator, Muscle Confusion, Biofuels Study, Building Solar Panels on the Moon; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Glycolysis; Your Questions and E-mails: Exoplanet Gravity; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Inquiline; News Items: Proxima Centauri b Confirmed, Anthropocene, World Wide Web 25, The Fight Against Pseudoscience, Pew Belief Poll; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Fraser Cain; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Janet Rowley; News Items: Chemtrails, Supar Hyperactivity, Augmented Reality and Cognitive Load, Fifth Force; Who's that Noisy; What's the Word: Flocculation; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: David Gorski; What's the Word: Hypnagogia; News Items: Now You Don't See It, Piltdown Case Closed, Black Hole Back Door, Cupping at the Olympics, Other Olympic Pseudoscience; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Interview with Grant Richey; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Elizabeth Rona; News Items: Young Blood, Electroceuticals, Female Orgasm, Private Moon Mission; What's the Word: Mondegreen; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nimrod and Edgy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Neotony; News Items: Vaxxed Lawsuit, Superatoms, Clone Follow Up, What's Cool; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: The Science of Race; Science or Fiction
Interview with Maria Cork; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Carlos Juan Finlay; News Items: Replications in Science, Single Atom Data Storage, The Connectome, HAARP, Bio Bot; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Estivation; Your Questions and E-mails: Snake Follow up, Archaic Words; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Apoptosis; News Items: Solar Panel Impact, Ancient Supernovae, Kubrick Moon Landing Hoax, Neurasthenia, Tiny-Armed Dinosaur, New Dwarf Planet; Who;s That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Bryce Bayer; News Items: A Psychiatrist Falls for Exorcism, fMRI Validity, Juno at Jupiter, First Autonomous Car Fatality; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Paroxysmal; Your Questions and E-mails: Jet Fuel; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Alluvium; News Items: MEND Protocol, The Cost of Carbon, China's New Supercomputer, Music Chills; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail:Politics and Gun Control; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Marshall; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Edwards; News Items: Electric Plane, Naturopathic Licensure, Black Holes and Dark Matter; What's the Word: Crepuscular; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders; News Items: Kinked Nanotubes, Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier, Gun Violence a Public Health Issue, Government Funding Pseudoscience, More Gravity Waves; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week, What's the Word: Eschatology; Science or Fiction
Interview with David Grossnickle; What's the Word: Iatrogenic; News Items: Universe Expanding Faster than Thought, Illusion of Choice, Is Hands Free Safer; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Noel Edmonds; Your Questions and E-mails: Antibiotics in Mexico, Mythbuster Science; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Andrew Benson; News Items: Cell Phones and Cancer Again, Total Bacterial Resistance, Bumble Bees Sense Electric Fields, What's Happening to our Oceans; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Cauliflory; Science or Fiction
Special Guests: Richard Wiseman and Hai-Ting Chinn; What's the Word: Autotomy; News Items: Watch Pseudoscience, Tabletop Particle Accelerators, GMO Sugar, Facebook News Algorithm, Blinking; Science or Fiction
SGU Live from NECSS with special guest: Bill Nye; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Cecilia Helena-Payne Gaposshkin; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Prince Charles and Homeopathy; News Items: Failure is an Option, Prosecuting Climate Change Denial, Lost Myan City, Why is Space 3D; What's the Word: Group Animal Names; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Yvonne Brill; News Items: Growing Human Embryos, Overprescribing Antibiotics, Earth-sized Exoplanets, Mike Adams Slanders Skeptics; What's the Word: Amphidromic, Questions and E-mails: Muad'Dib; Science or Fiction
SGU 11 Year Anniversary; What's The Word: Propaganda; News Items: Repealing Canadian Science Censorship, Bulletproof Biohacking, Origin of Gravity Waves, Slime Mold Memory; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Talc and Cancer; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Whelan; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Annie Maunder; News Items: Zinc Flash at Conception, Plant Prion Memory, Parents Convicted in Toddler's Death; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Hyperthymesia; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Geodesic; News Items: Neural Bypass, Dinosaur Extinction, Universe in the Lab, Genetic Superheroes; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Homophily; News Items: Metal Foam, Pig Heart Transplants, Should We Hide from Aliens, Computer Artists; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fishmato; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: words without English equivalents; News Items: Food Production, Swearing, Laser Propulsion; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: Predictions; Your Questions and E-mails: Carter UFO Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Kevin Folta; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dorothy Hodgkin; News Items: Ghosts in the Brain, Neuronal Feedback, Tribeca Pulls Anti-Vax Film, Minimal Genome, Vegetarians and Cancer; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Chemiosmosis; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Equilux; News Items: Supernova Shock Wave, Desk Exercise, Angry Suns, Moderate Drinkers and Health; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Shouting Fire; Science or Fiction
Interview with Bruce Hood; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose; News Items: AI Assistant, Cryotherapy; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Sciolism; Your Questions and E-mails: Valsalva Revisited, Non-Newtonian Fluids; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Thixotrophy; News Items: Overconfidence, AI vs Go Champion, Minority Report; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Piloting and Valsava; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: George Hrab; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Norman Borlaug; News Items: Uploading Memories, A Year in Space, Fast Radio Bursts, Imaging Alzheimer's Disease, Galaxy Symmetry; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Julia Galef; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dr. Moona Hanna-Attisha; News Items: Air Pollution and Public Health, Mystery Moon Music, Gender Bias Among Programmers; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Free Speech vs Social Justice; Science or Fiction
Interview with Kevin Folta; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Nikolai Vavilov; News Items: 14 Billion Year Memory, 3D Printing Body Parts, Eating Mammoth; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: David Suzuki; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Pleochroism; News Items: Robotic Chef, Brain Electrodes, Diagnosing Cancer, Gravitational Waves; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: RFID; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Lorna Wing; News Items: Concussions in the NFL, Zika Conspiracy, Planetary Defense System, Lab-Grown Meat; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word; Science or Fiction
Interview with SciBabe; What's the Word; News Items: The Viability of Conspiracies, The Aliens are Dead, Marvin Minsky, Probiotics Hype; Your Questions and E-mails: Fake Skeptic Scam; Science or Fiction
Interview with Craig Good; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Stephanie Louise Kwolek; News Items: Motorcycle Helmet Laws, Charlie Sheen HIV, Arctic Humans, Geckos and Spiderman; What's the Word: Agnatology; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Algorithm; News Items: Bacterial vs Human Cells, GMO Labeling, Mites Run in the Family, Apple Car, Gravity Waves; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green; News Items: FTC Smacks Down Lumosity, Picky Eaters, New Elements; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Fugacity; Name That Logical Fallacy: Learning Styles; Science or Fiction
Psychic Prediction 2015; News Items: HIV Blood Donations, The Genetics of Intelligence, British Smiles; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: James West; Special Report: This Year in Astronomy; News Items: Evil Robots, Hunting for Planet X, Antidepressants and Autism, More Problems for Supplements; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Solar NIMBY; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Shermer; Forgotten Superheroes of Science-Caroline Herschel; News Items: More Free Energy, Storing Nuclear Waste, Gene Editing Ethics; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Consilience; Your Questions and E-mails: Frame Dragging; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Thimerosal Revisited; Science or Fiction
What's The Word: Hysteresis; News Items: Male and Female Brains, Bird and Human Voices, Driverless Cars, Deep Nonsense, A Ring for Mars; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Tardigrade Genome; Science or Fiction
What's the Word: Homeostasis; News Items: Universe Resolution, Scientific Consensus, Hobbit Update, Gene Drive in Mosquitoes, A Century of General Relativity; Your Questions and E-mails: Political Questions; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Birute Mary Galdikas; News Items: DOJ and Supplements, Armadillos and Leprosy, Sun Stole Mars' Atmosphere, Meier's Paris Predictions; What's the Word: Albedo; Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptical Hoaxes, Microgravity; Science or Fiction
Interview with Simon Singh; What's The Word: Formication; News items: Low Calories Sweeteners, Making Metals Stronger, JFK Hitman, Fossilized Brains; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Anxiety in Space, How Much Meat; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Andrea Ghez; News Items: Poop Power, Parallel Universe, Universe Simulation, 3D Printed Rhino Horns; Special Report: Science and Faith; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Indolent; Swindler's List: Ransomware; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dr. Dean Edell; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Alice Hamilton; News Items: Red Meat and Cancer, Mega Poop, Tractor Beam, Whole Body Cryotherapy; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Canonical; Your Questions and E-mails: Tom Hanks and Cancer Quacks, Back to the Future Predicts 9/11; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Maria Sibylla Merian; News items: Placebos Getting Stronger, Danish Zoo Hubbub, Oswald Backyard Photo, Mars via the Moon; Special Report: Back to the Future Day; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Consoling Atheists; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Alice Catherine Evans; News Items: Stellar Mystery, Hallucinations; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Core Sci-Fi; Science or Fiction
Lawsuit Update; Forgotten Supervillains of Science; News Items: Nobel Prizes in Physics, Medicine, and Chemistry, Peer-Reviewing The Martian; Movie Review: The Martian; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Andy Weir; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Barbara McClintock; News Items: Water on Mars, Looking for Life on Mars, Brain Connections, Skeptic vs Denier; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Isograd; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Ruth Rogan Benerito; News Items: Predatory Pharmaceuticals, Ocean Populations Declining, Election Graphology, Conspiracy Thinking; Who's That Noisy; What's the Word: Efferent; Your Questions and E-mails: Proof of God; Science or Fiction
Dumbest Thing of the Week: Stone UFO; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Hedy Lamar; News Items: Solar Hydrogen, Homo naledi, Terraforming Mars, Metallic Glass; What's the Word: Anosmia; Your Questions and E-mails: Fibromyalgia; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science:Fritz Haber; News Items: Night Skies, Thinking Style and Paranormal Belief, Psychic Detectives; Special Report: Time Travel; What's the Word; Science or Fiction
In Memoriam - Oliver Sacks; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Granville Woods; News Items: Reproduction in Psychology, Brain Booster Drug, Defying the Standard Model, Rock Art Pterodactyl Debunked; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Miles Greb; Forgotten Superheros of Science; News Items: Anti-Vax Nonsense, Group Think Lie Detection, WiFi Lawsuit, Universal Flu Vaccine; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Frances Kelsey; News Items: Mars Simulation, Robot Evolution, Naming Exoplanets, Fusion Reactors, Building the Death Star, Does Science Prove God, Sunspots; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Marie Tharp; News Items: Skin Cells into Brain Cells, Registering Studies, Search Engines Influence Elections, Earth and Moon, Scotland Bans GMOs, Whos That Noisy, Science or Fiction
Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Inge Lehmann; News Items: Mystery Booms Solved, Convincing Antivaxxers, Needle Exchange Efficacy, Life on Earth's "Cousin"; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Kevin Folta; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Gerty Corti; News Items: EM Drive Revisited, Hope for Malaria Vaccine, Cannabis Oil, Washington DC Sinking; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live from TAM 13; Interview with James Randi and Ray Hyman; Introducing Cara Santa Maria; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Henrietta Leavitt; News Items: Pluto Close Approach, Village on the Moon, Giant Fighting Robots, Depression App, Teaching Science Wrong, New Winged Dinosaur, Pentaquark; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: George Hrab; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Earl Palmer; News Items: Pluto Update, New Zealand Illegalizes Trolling, New Seralini Study, Biological Age; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Jim Carrey; Your Questions and E-mails: UFO Cube; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superhero of Science: Charles H. Townes; News Items: New Sleep Recommendations, A Logic Lesson, Dragon Lizards and Climate; Limits of Phase Change Computer Memory; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Cruciferous Vegetables, Education and Paranormal Belief; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Joanne Benhamu; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Maria Goeppert-Mayer; News Items: Bionic Lens, Inside Out and Brain Metaphors, Pyramids on Mars and Ceres; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Eddie Van Halen and Discovery Institute; Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptical Questions; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Vera Rubin; Movie Review: Jurassic World; News Items: Breast Milk Snake Oil, Volocopter, Kennewick Man Follow Up, Sixth Extinction; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Kim Jung-un; Your Questions and E-mails: IT Rant; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Jerry Lawson; News Items: Nutrition Research, Graphene Light Emission, Global Warming Challenge, Philae Wakes Up; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week: David Tredinnick; Your Questions and E-mails: Hive Mind; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Chien Shiug Wu; News Items: Implantable Electrodes, Biolimbs, Tredinnick Pseudoscience, Darpa Robotics Challenge; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Memento Mori; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Margaret Hamilton; News Items: Laser Weapons, Chocolate Science Sting, How Many Species, In Memoriam-Dr. Wallace Sampson, Proton Spin; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Rape Statistics, Charity Effectiveness; Science or Fiction
Interview with Paul Braterman; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Georges Méliès; News Items: Scam Charities, Creationist Talking Points, Twitter Demons; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Feeders; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Sherman Morgan; Movie Review: Ex Machina; News Items: Federal Anti-SLAPP, Anti-Bacterial Soap and Cancer, Light-Based Computing, Online Timelapse; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Patrick Matthew; News Items: Orbo Again, Solar Roadways Test, Glass Delusion, Illusion of Invisibility, Threat to Citizen Science; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Black Box Tech, Buying Local
SGU 10 year anniversary live streaming event; Special Guests: George Hrab, Brian Wecht, Julia Galef, Richard Saunders; News and Discussion Items: Slapping Therapy Death, Black Box Tech, Tesla Home Battery, Podcast Patent Troll; Science Fiction or Fiction; Pseudoscience or Fiction
Live From New Zealand; Special Guests Siouxsie Wiles and George Hrab; This Day in Skepticism: Water on Mars; News Items: Intermittently Wet Mars, Glowing Bacteria, Dunning Kruger, Dawn Whale, YouTubes Algorithms; Science or Fiction
Special Guests: Brian Wecht and George Hrab; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Grace Hopper; News Items: Terror Bird, A Rape on Campus; Special Report: The Future of the LHC; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Bill Nye; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Lise Meitner and Ida Tacke; News Items: Parents No Longer Anti-Vaccine, Noticing Spiders, Solar Sail, NASA-ET Life in 20 Years, Lava Tubes on the Moon; Special Report: Bill Nye on GMOs; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Fazlur Kahn; News Items: Self-Driving Cars, Google University, The Size of Aliens, Toxic Oceans, Return of Brontosaurus; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Cults, Power Lifting Suits; The Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Sandra Faber; News Items: Radio Bursts and Alien Signals, Peer-Review Scandal, Is The World Greener, Gravity Tunnel Revisited; Special Report: Going Clear; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Interview with Chris Patil of Mars One; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Women of ENIAC; News Items: Titius-Bode Law and Exoplanets, Largest Asteroid Impact, Gold from Crap, FDA and Homeopathy; Your Questions and E-mails: Composting Follow Up; Dumbest Thing of the Week: Ted Cruz; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Richard Saunders; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Irene Joliot-Curie; News Items: Australia Pans Homeopathy, NYT and Wearable Tech, LHC Computer Grid, Naturopathy; Your Questions and E-mails: Composting; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Interview with Kevin Folta; Interview with Marc Randazza-Libel Reform; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Emmy Noether; News Items: Bright Spots on Ceres, Clinical Science, Gravity Lensing, Edison's Plans to Record the Dead; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Alan Melikdjanian aka Captain Disillusion; Leonard Nimoy 1931-2015; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Oswald Avery; News Items: Dress Color Hubbub, Ranking Websites by Factual Accuracy, Reverse Eyeball Evolution, Dawn at Ceres; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Interview with Timothy Caulfield; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Mary Anning; News Items: Marijuana Safety, Phantom Acupuncture, Liberal and Conservative Biases, Bladderwort Genome; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Jennifer Dixon; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Katherine Johnson; News Items: Mammals vs Dinosaurs, Scott Adams on Science, METI Controversy, Anderson Cooper vs Dan Burton, DNA Barcoding of Herbs; Who's That Noisy; Dumbest Thing of the Week; Science or Fiction
SGU 500 House Party; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Ada Lovelace; News Items: Making Better Steel, Lars Anderson Archery, Did Williams Lie?; Dumbest Thing of the Week: V-Steam; Jewie or Fiction; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: George Hrab; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Charles Drew; News Items: Scientific vs Public Opinion, Ghost Gadgets, Conservapedia Disproves E=MC2, FDA Cracks Down on Supplements, Gravity Waves Update; Who's That Noisy; The Dumbest Thing I Heard This Week; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Jocelyn Bell Burnel; News Items: Green Coffee Bean Hoax, Disneyland Measles Outbreak, Galaxy-Sized Wormhole, Fail-Safe for Artificial Life; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Comparing DNA; Name That Logical Fallacy; Crazy Stuff I Heard this Week; Science or Fiction
Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Rosalind Franklin; Edge Question: Artificial Intelligence; News Items: The Boy Who Didn't Go to Heaven, Biofortified GMO, Omniprocessor; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Deep Web Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Cara Santa Maria; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Edward Lorenz; Movie Review: The Imitation Game; News Items: Younger Dryas Extinction, Robot Poker, New Antibiotics; Special Report: Suicide and Depression; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Tim Farley; Forgotten Superheroes of Science: Annie Jump Cannon; Psychic Prediction 2014; News Items: The Science of God, Expected Science in 2015; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
SGU Live from Auckland with guest rogue George Hrab; This Day in Skepticism: Lick Observatory; News Items: Alternative Cancer Treatments, ESPN Twitter Kerfuffle, The Deep Web, Jet lag Pseudoscience, Gender in Education, Orion Capsule Test, Seeing Infrared; Science or Fiction
SGU 2014 Year in Review; SGU in 2014, Best and Worst of 2014, 2014 Mashups, Year in Science, In Memoriam; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: George Hrab; This Day in Skepticism: First Electronic Instrument; Special Reports: Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments; News Items: DNA Survives Spaceflight, Hong Kong Pillows, Discovering New Particles, Graphene Armor, Survey on Apathy; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi; Special Guests George Hrab and Richard Saunders; This Day in Skepticism: Last person on the Moon; News Items: Lunar Mission One, Ginkgo Biloba, Psychic Predicts Airline Crash, Politics vs Science, Nanosculpture, Saving Christmas, Teen Brains; Special Report: Wind Power; Science or Fiction
Interview with Scott Sigler; This Day in Skepticism: Kinetoscope; Special Reports: Favorite Pseudoscience; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: JFK Assassination; Review of Interstellar; News Items: Landing on a Comet, Feeling of Presence, Doubting the Higgs, Food Babe Nonsense; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interviews with Sheldon Helms and Siouxsie Wiles; This Day in Skepticism: Sara Josephine Baker; News Items: New Antibacterial, The Primeval Code, Curiosity Discovery, HAARP Closing, GMO Labeling; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: David Young; This Day in Skepticism: X-Rays; News Items: Virgin Galactic Crash, Homeopathy for Ebola, Fanged Deer, Time Undone, Center of our Galaxy, Feng Shui; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders; This Day in Skepticism: First Women's Medical School; News Items: Stem Cell Cancer Treatment, Skydiving Record, The Pope and Evolution, Dowsing in Australia; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with David Gorski; This Day in Skepticism: Accutron; News Items: A TCM Challenge, Stem Cells for Spinal Cord injury, Giants of Arkansas; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: BICEP 2 and Inflation, Jack the Ripper Follow Up; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Venera 4; News Items: AWARE NDE Study, Living on Mars, E-Cat Cold Fusion, Crocodilians, Sciencey, Sally Morgan Follow Up; Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Ebola Hysteria; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Andy Wilson; This Day in Skepticism: Meriwether Lewis; News Items: Nobel Prizes 2014, Rupert Sheldrake, Pumpkin Spice Latte, Sally Morgan's Thugs; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Alice Stewart; News Items: Bending iPhones, Martial Arts Nonsense, Doubting Black Holes, Organic Molecules in Space, Recognizing Faces; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: 432 Hz Tuning; Science or Fiction
Interview with Daniel Dennett; This Day in Skepticism: Answering Machine; News Items: Nvidia Debunks Moon Hoax, GMO Feeding Trial, Touch Pareidolia, Betavoltaics; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Hershey-Chase Experiment; News Items: NASA Crew Capsules, Universe Ending Bubble, Genetics of Schizophrenia, NAS Biotech Counsel, Artificial Sweeteners and Diabetes
This Day in Skepticism: Phineas Gage; News Items: Jack the Ripper Claim, Common Core, Canada's War on Science, Dreadnaughtus, Supplement Company Sues over Criticism, Brian Dunning; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Correction; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: First Heart Surgery; News Items: Neanderthal Shot by Time Traveler, Barreleye Fish, Eating Insects, Victor Stenger Dies, The Local Bubble, UN Warns of Killer Robots, Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize; Special Report: Review of ESP Panel; Science or Fiction; Live Q&A: Imagination in Science, Teaching Scientific Methodology
This Day in Skepticism: Sylvia Earle; News Items: Alternative Research, ISIS Bans Chemistry and Philosophy, Ice Sheets Melting, Hallucigenia, Talking Apes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: William Wallace; News Items: Robot Swarm, Epigenetics, Black Hole Universe, Man on the Moon, Big Pharma Suicide; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Groupthink; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; This Day in Skepticism: Urbain Grandier; News Items: Carrington Event Redux, Rangeomorphs, Shark Week Pseudoscience, Cervical Manipulation and Strokes, iPhone Performace - with Rene Ritchie; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Ebola and Hobbit Follow Up; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki; This Day in Skepticism: Nagasaki; New Items: Ebola 2014, Rosetta in Orbit, EM Drive, Hobbit Update, Volcanoes on Io; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Herxing; Science or Fiction
Interview with Bill Nye; This Day in Skepticism: Greenwhich Mean Time; News Items: Mike Adams Follow Up, Battery Advance, Ray Comfort's Gravity Gaffe, Dinosaur Feathers, Dinosaur Extinction; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Pierre and Marie Curie; News Items: SGU Sued, Mike Adams and Monsanto, Malaysia Flight MH17, Ken Ham Denies Aliens, Pits on the Moon; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Humor in Education; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi and Massimo Polidoro; This Day in Skepticism: Flitch Day; News Items: European Commission Human Brain Project, Guru Dead or Meditating, Ex-Exoplanets, Buzz Aldrin UFO Encounter, Alone with one's Thoughts, BBC Ditches False Balance; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Buckminster Fuller; News Items: Solar Freakin' Rebuttal, Slower Light, Orion Capsule, UFO Sightings, Facebook Experiment; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Transdermal Direct Current Stimulation; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: PT Barnum; News Items: Food Fears, Higgs Follow Up, Free Will, Rights of Unvaccinated, KFC Hoax; Who's That Noisy; Your E-mails and Questions: Isagenix; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Baron of Arizona; News items: Micro Architecture, Massive Underground Ocean, 9/11 Debate, Whooping Cough Epidemic, Trophy Wife; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Teleporting Information; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Summer Solstice; Cosmos Review; News Items: Chopra Challenge, New Computer Architecture, Oz Skewered, Self-Repairing Teeth; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Solar Power; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Space Monkeys; News Items: Turing Test, Psychic Fails, Origin of the Moon, Dragon V2, NASA Starship, Smallest Star; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Schizophrenia or Possession; Science or Fiction
Interview with Bug Girl; This Day in Skepticism: British Museum; News Items: Mega - Earth, Secondary Drowning, Medical Information on Wikipedia, Lady Hurricanes, Black Hole Magnetism; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Third-Hand Smoke; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Jaffina Public Library; News Items: Solar Highways, Suspended Animation, Comb Jellies, PETA Autism, Planetary Diameters; Who's That Noisy; Your E-mails and Questions: Corrections; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jason Luchtefeld and Grant Ritchey; This Day in Skepticism: Yness Mexica and Helen Taussig; News Items: Planet-Eating Stars, Fluoride and Vaccines are Safe, Nasal Strips for Horses, Jupiter's Red Spot Shrinking, Military Response to Zombies; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Harmonized Water; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Ajia Moon; Interview with Massimo Piggliucci; This Day in Skepticism: Nathan Kline; News Items: Afterlife Debate, Five Finger Shoes Settles, Graphene and Heat, Correlation and Causation, Lab Grown Vaginas; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live Recording at NECSS 2014; With Guest Rogue: George Hrab; This Day in Skepticism: Chernobyl; News Items: Black Salve, Tetraquarks, Homeopathy Report, Stradivarius Study, Video Game Aggression; Science or Fiction
Interview with Elise Andrew; This Day in Skepticism: Manuel Elizade; News Items: Neuromorphic Computer, Mixing Supplements and Meds, Microbial Doom, Marketing Organic; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Life Energy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: L'Aigle Meteorite; News Items: Food Babe Strikes Again, Dream Weaver, Super Mantis Shrimp, Motivated Memory, Silverstone Goes McCarthy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fuel from Seawater; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Live from NECSS 2014; Guest Rogue: Paul Offit; This Day in Skepticism: Salyut 1; News Items: Liquid Light, Geocentrism, The Continuity Field, Light on Mars, Ancient Asteroid Impact, Ant Complexity; Science or Fiction; Live Q&A: Skeptical Parenting
This day In Skepticism: SPAM; News Items: Chilis and Antivaxers, Crowdfunding Pseudoscience, Ocean under Enceladus, Looking Intelligent, Who's That Noisy, Your Questions and E-mails: Justina Case, Car Remotes; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Marsters; This Day in Skepticism: Hattie Alexander; News Items: Medical Conspiracies, Autism Onset, Artificial Yeast, Conflicts of Interest; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with David Gorski and Bob Blaskiewicz; Guest Rogue: Brian Wecht; News Items: Oil Pulling, Wikipedia Standards, Techno Fossils, Twin Prime Conjecture, Asteroid with Rings; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Brian Brushwood; Interview with Joe Anderson; This Day in Skepticism: Ulugh Beg; News Items: Waking from Coma with Psychic Powers, Cosmic Inflation, 24-192 audio; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Cartouche Again, Jet Stability; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jennifer Ouellette; This Day in Skepticism: Ides of March; News Items: Flight 370 Mystery, Earth's Shields, Meat Study; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Tilly Shilling; News Items: Countering Anti-Vaccine Fears, Dowsing in CA, Capturing Earth's Energy, Crank Sues NASA; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Michio Kaku, Dealing with Negativity; Name That Logical Fallacy: Eating Meat; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michio Kaku; This Day in Skepticism: Rebecca Lee Crumpler; News Items: My Three Parents, Dowsing for HIV, Climate Engineering, Open Data; Who's That Noisy; You Questions and E-mails: Food Babe Follow Up; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems; News Items: Genovese Myth, Pseudoscience Vandalism, Subway and Azodicarbonamide, Petawatt Lawer, AIDS Denialists Silence Critic; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Decimal Day; News Items: Organic Molecule on the Moon, Astrology Belief, Burgess Shale, Boeing Anti-Gravity, Photo Lineups, Fusion Beats Unity; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Net Neutrality, Placebo Medicine; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: The Devil's Footprints; News Items: Detecting Computer Zombies, Sucralose Fearmongering, Werewolf Diet, Nye-Ham Debate; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thorium Car, FTL Communication; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Lydia DeWitt; Special Report: What Scientific Idea is Ready for Retirement; News Items: No Black Holes?, Giant Stones of Egypt; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mithras; Science or Fiction
Interview with Karen Stollznow; This Day in Skepticism: Fluoridation; News Items: Cosmic Web, Exorcism Deaths, Ball Lightning, Kepler Update, Creationism in Texas; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Jacob Bronowski; News Items: Self-Cleaning Clothing, Fukushima, Tiktaalik Update, Universal Flu Vaccine, Snowden Alien Conspiracy, Blood Type Diet; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Destroying Currency; Science or Fiction
Interview with Mark Crislip; This Day in Skepticism: Amelia Earhart; News Items: Vitamin Supplements, Polar Vortex, Earthquake Lights, I Killed Bigfoot, Cancer Deaths Drop; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Distilled Water; Science or Fiction
Interview with Hai Ting and Matthew; This Day in Skepticism: Topsy the Elephant; Predictions 2013; News Items: Atmosphere of a Super Earth, Reverse Ageing, Magnetic Pooping, Virgin Births; Who's That Noisy, Science or Fiction
2013 Year in Review; Guest Rogue: George Hrab; This Day in Skepticism: Birth of Cinema; SGU Year in Review; Science News 2013; Who's That Noisy; In Memoriam; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: HMS Challenger; News Items: Geysers on Europa, Regulation in Genetic Code, Jade Rabbit, Aspartame Safe, Cell Phones on Planes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Reverse Speech; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Tycho Brahe; News Items: Atmospheric Mystery, Mima Mounds, Exploding Pig Farms, False Memories, Oldest Human DNA, Mars Radiation; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Creationist Claims; Science Fiction
Interview with Tim Farley and Susan Gerbic; This Day in Skepticism: Rube Goldberg and Eleanor Gibson; News Items: Male-Female Brain Wiring, Wormholes and Black Holes, Home Genetic Testing; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Hodges Meteorite; News Items: MAVEN Launch - with special guest Elliot Goldman, Sylvia Browne Dead, Homeopathy Death, Capturing Lost Energy, FDA Report on Burzynski, Comet ISON; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; This Day in Skepticism: Dr. Who; News Items: How Many Earth-Like Planets, Image of Saturn, 6-Tailed Asteroid, Chopra Attacks Skeptics, Typhoon Haiyan; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Blind Mole Rats; Science or Fiction
Interview with Gerald Posner; This Day in Skepticism: LSD; News Items: Oldest Animal, Junk DNA, Martian Lizard, Dark Energy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Knee Ligament; Science or Fiction
Interview with Chris Mooney and Indre Viskontas; This Day in Skepticism: Carl Sagan, Florence Rena Sabin; News Items: Tardis Science, Moving Stones, Blushing in the Dark, Rock Paper Scissors Robot; Who's That Noisy; Swindler's List: Kevin Trudeau; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Charles Van Doren; News Items: Ghost Story, Lorenzo's Oil, Li Fi, Space Ports, Gender; Who's That Noisy; Live Questions: Getting Involved in Skepticism; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Malow; This Day in Skepticism: Baby Fae; News Items: 1000 Exoplanets, Scientific Literacy and the Tea Party, PPMOs, Wind turbine Syndrome; Who's that Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Johnnetta Cole; News Items: Money Predicts Apocalypse, Herbal Supplements, Politics and Dogma, Singularity vs Bridge; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Cooling Drinks; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Marty Klein; This Day in Skepticism: Chicago Fire; News Items: 2013 Nobel Prizes, Kansas Citizens Oppose Science, Open Access Journals, Smart Metals; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: World Teacher Day; News Items: New IPCC Report, Photographic the Soul, Chiropractor Breaks Baby's Neck, Black Hole Explosions and Hair; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Monsanto, Overpowered Studies; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jamie Williams; This Day in Skepticism: Thomas Crapper; News Items: GMO OK, Angry Internet, Warning Labels, When Black Holes Explode, Carbon Nanotube Computers; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: David Vetter; News Items: IgNobel 2013, Top Quarks End Universe, Alien Life on Earth, The Physics of Homosexuality, Regeneration; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Quantum Energy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: 9/11; News items: Motivated Numeracy, Arctic Ice, Robot Traders, Teenage Exorcists, Homeopathic Vaccines, Mission to Mars; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bdellovibrio; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Last Thylacine; News Items: NASA Spiders, Chicken Wings and Penis Size, TCM for Flu, New Element 115; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pox Parties, Aromatherapy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Cara Santa Maria; This Day in Skepticism: Paul Ehrlich; News Items: Energized Water, Probiotics for Mental Health, Death by Iridology, Immortality; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Authority; Science or Fiction
Interview with Sanal Edamaruku; This Day in Skepticism: Vesuvius; News Items: No Proof of Creation, Area 51, Hydrating Beer, Indian Rationalist Shot Dead, Free Roaming Planets; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Sugar and Hyperactivity; Science or Fiction
This Week in Skepticism:Hazel Bishop; News Items: NDE Explained, TV Watching, Labor and Autism, Magenta Planet, Spontaneous Baby Combustion; Special Report: Onionated; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Mann; This Day in Skepticism: Smithsonian; News Items: Dead Monk Alive, Lab Grown Burger, Dolphin Memory, Cattle Mutilations, Gluten Follow Up; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: HPV Vaccine; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Robert House; News Items: Hunt for Alien Spaceships, 3-D Printing, Lunar Calendar, Full Moon and Sleep; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Man-Chimp-Pig; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Insulin; News items: Giant Virus, Gluten, Death Wave, The Pitch Drops, Revenge of the Conspiracy Theorists. Cassini Picture of Earth; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Live from TAM 2013; Guest Rogue: John Rennie; This Day in Skepticism: Viking 1; Special Report: Grand Canyon; News Items: The End of the World, Sailing Stones, Scrotal Evolution, Moons of Pluto; Interview with James Randi and Jamy Ian Swiss; Science or Fiction; Questions: Cynicism, Monsanto
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Interview with Joshie Berger; This Day in Skepticism: homosexuality and the DSM; News Items: Creationist Tactics, Truth in Education, Dawn of Life, History of Cheese, Vampire Warning, Ocean Robots; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; This Day in Skepticism: Atoms for Peace; News Items: End of the World, Bug UFO Follow Up, Inattentional Amnesia, Curiosity Kurfuffle, Grand Canyon Age, Moon Formation; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Banachek; This Day in Skepticism: Taman Shud Mystery; News Items: Not-So-Terror Bird, Bloop Solved, Hijacking DNA, Bigfoot DNA, Makemake; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Theory; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Richard Wiseman; This Day in Skepticism: Origin of Species; Special Report: Richard's Dream Research; News Items: Aspartame Study, Being a Psychopath, Type Ia Supernova, Fecal Transplants; Science or Fiction
Interview with Bruce Hood; This Day in Skepticism: Jonestown Massacre; News Items: Denver UFO, Math Hurts, Communicating with the Vegetative, Nearby Rogue Planet, Twisted Light; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Bicycle Physics; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Goddess of Reason; News Items: Life in the Universe, UFOlogy Dying, Chelation Therapy, Psychic Fail; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Universe Rotating; Science or Fiction; In Memorium: Mike LaCelle
Live From CSICon 2012; This Day in Skepticism: Sputnik 2; In Memorium: Paul Kurtz and Leon Jaroff; News Items: Big Bang Conference, Italian Earthquake Scientists Convicted, Whale Makes Human Sounds, PANDAS Controversy, Reporting Ghost Stories; Live Q&A Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Genetic Logic Circuit, Efficient Language, Closest Exoplanet, Alien Hacker; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Zombie Bite; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss; This Day in Skepticism: Norman Borlaug; News Items: Nobel Prize in Chemistry, DNA Half Life, The Simulated Universe, Supersonic Jump, Geoglyph; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Robert Hutton:SGU Transcripts; This Day in Skepticism: Lady of Fatima; News Items: 2012 Nobel Prizes, Looking for Dyson Spheres, Simon Singh and Libel, Presidential Lie Detector; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail: Proof of Heaven; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: The Billygoat Curse; News Items: The Physics of Roulette, Vitamin D and the Common Cold, Harpooning Satellites, Bee Brains; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: WTC7 Collapse; Science or Fiction
Interview with Pamela Gay; This Day in Skepticism: CERN; News Items: Ig Nobels 2012, GM Corn Rat Study, HIV and Faith Healing, Emoticons turn 30; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Golden Tablets and Hobbit Day; News Items: Warp Drive, Bad Science Reporting, Dark Energy Camera, Crowdsourcing Science, Spheres on Mars, CSICon 2012; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Blue Moon and Frances; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Murray Gell-Mann and Alexander Flemming; News Items: Sun Myung Moon Dies, Company Apologies for Thalidomide, Super WiFi, Calorie Restriction and Longevity; Special Report: A Skeptical 12 Step Program; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Quote of the Week
Live from DragonCon 2012; Interview with Billy West; This Day in Skepticism: First Trek; News Items: Blue Moon Lunacy, Bigfoot News, Negative Replication of Psi, Baldness Cure, Little Mass from Higgs, UFO Over Illuminati Castle; Science or Fiction; Your Questions and E-mails: SGU FAQ, Homeopath Pharmacist, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
This Day in Skepticism: Passenger Pigeon; News Items: Neil Armstrong Dies, Naked Darth Vader, Homeopathic Candy, Hearing Voices; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Conspiracy Conference; Science or Fiction
Interview with Pixar's Chris Ford; This Day in Skepticism: The Great Moon Hoax; News Items: The Sun is Round, DNA Storage, FDA and Homeopathy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pregnancy from Rape, E-bay and Magic; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Eggs and Atherosclerosis, Hacking the Rover, The Sneeze, Google Pyramids, Occ Update; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Asymmetrical Screw; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Dino Mating, Blowing Up Asteroids, Punching for God, Occ the Skeptical Caveman; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Kinesio Tape; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Wecht; This Day in Skepticism: First Fax; News Items: Superstition Fund, Curiosity's Sky Crane, Anti-Fluoridation News Fail, Bat-Winged Monkey Bird; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Kennewick Man; News Items: Skeptical Conferences, Sally Ride Dies, Mood Photography, Computer Modeling Life, Artificial Jellyfish, Firewalking Mishap; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Multivitamins; Science or Fiction
Live from TAM 2012; With Special Guests: Richard Saunders and George Hrab; This Day in Skepticism: Planet Nibiru, Jean Picard born; News Items: Fake Bomb Detector Maker Charged, Debating an Antivaccinationist. Feathered Dinosaurs, New Moon for Pluto, Higgs Discovery Announced, Sex Myths, Sapphire Hard Drive; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Daniel Beauley; This Day in Skepticism: Jane Goodall; News Items: UFOs in National Geo, Seeing Inside Tissue, GOP on Critical Thinking, Alternative Chocolate; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Who Owns Space; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jann Bellamy; This Day in Skepticism: Newcomen Engine; News Items: Water on The Moon and Mars, Swiss Report on Homeopathy, Twisted Light, Embodied Cognition; Who's That Noisy; News Update: Causeway Cannibal; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Tunguska Event; News Items: The Science of Prometheus, Time Slowing Down, Higgs Update; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Nessie Disproves Evolution; Science or Fiction
Interview with Professor Zhong Lin Wang; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Mystery Carbon Spike, Younger Dryas Impact, Liberation Procedure Study, Testing Female Athletes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Fetal Pill Update; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism - Captain Picard Day; News Items: LiDar, Extremophiles, Moral Behavior, Cervical Manipulation, Ghost Train; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Pharmacist Homeopaths; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism - Ray Bradbury Dies; News Items: Episode #360, Transit of Venus, Legislating Science, Science Education in California and South Korea, Vapor Storage; Magnetic Skeptical Phrases; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Peer Review; Science or Fiction
Interview with Debbie Feldman; This Day in Skepticism: Bridget Bishop; News Items: Medical Zombies, Science of Reruns, Leakey on Evolution; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Local Darkmatter Followup; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Joshie Berger; This Day in Skepticism: Animalcules; News Items: TAM Poker Tournament, Space X Launch, Studying the Universe, What is Consciousness; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Speaking to Mediums; Swindler's List: Hearing Aids; Science or Fiction
Interview with Chris Lewicki; Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; This day in Skepticism: Head Cabinet; News Items: Ghost Box, Mayan Calendar, Electricity from Viruses, UK LIbel Law Update; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Supermoon; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Dinosaur Farts, Aura Reading, 48 Frames per Second, Baby Powder, Killing Bigfoot, TAM2012; Who's That Noisy ; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogues: Seth Shostak and James Randi; This Day in Skepticism: First American in Space, SGU 7 Year Anniversary; News Items: Rogue Planets, Machine Monkey Interface, Finding ET with Robots, God Spot in the Brain; SETI Update; Audience Q&A: The Coming Singularity; Science or Fiction
Live from NECSS 2012 with special guest James Randi; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Pedantic Words, Sports Pseudoscience, Nuking Asteroids, Loch Ness Monster Spotted, Cosmic Rays, Space Shuttle Enterprise; SGU Video; Science or Fiction; Remembering Perry
This Day in Skepticism: The Surgeons Photo; News Items: Life on Mars, Indian Skeptic Charged with Blasphemy, Multitasking, Monkeys Recognize Words, Cosmic Superwinds; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Titanic Correction, Advanced Dinosaurs; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Titanic Disaster; News Items: Blow Up Space Junk, Aristolochia Nephropathy, Homophobia, Toilet Water, Monkey Bill Update; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Grover's Algorithm, Gulf of Cambay Ruins; Science or Fiction
Interview with Gripp (Marshall Gillson); This Day in Skepticism: World Health Day; News Items: Smart Sand, Enclothed Cognition, Death by Homeopathy, Small Scale, Rhino Horn; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi; This Day in Skepticism: Patenting Life; News Items: Tennessee Anti-Evolution Bill, Origin of the Moon, Mystery Cloud on Mars, Newage Mountain; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: Exxon Valdez; News Items: Superhero Pseudoscience, High Altitude Skydiving, Nuclear Clock, New Hampshire Abortion Bill, NDE and Lucid Dreaming, Designer Electrons; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Here Comes the Metric System; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Richard Saunders; This Day in Skepticism: Vanguard I; News Items: Oldest Skeleton, Red Deer Cave People, Neutrino Communication, Defending Science in Australia, Failure to Replicate Bem's Psi Research; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Catching up on Vaccines; Science or Fiction
Interview with Scott Sigler; This Day in Skepticism: Megalonyx; News Items: Robot Cheetah, Kony 2012, Neuroprosthetics; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Therapeutic Tattoos; Science or Fiction
Interview with Gordon Maupin; This Day in Skepticism: Leap Year; News Items: Iceman Genome, FTL Neutrino Follow Up, More on Anti-Climategate, Drug Testing, Your Deceptive Brain; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Fraser Cain and Pamela Gaye; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Tiny Lizards, Missing Dark Matter, Anti-Climate Gate, Nanoparticle Safety; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: The Science of Pony Tails, Online Surveys, Structural Batteries, Quickie with Bob - Alien Matter; Who's That Noisy; Questions and E-mails: Evolution Falsifiable, Headgear; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: 3D Printing, Morgellons Update, State Science Standards, Lake Vostok, Hard Drive Breakthrough; Special Report: Ouija Boards; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Derek Bartholomaus; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Speed Limit for Birds, Reading Brain Waves, Conspiracy Contradictions, Scorpion Inspired Armor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Sean Carroll; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Stem Cells for Blindness, Chiropractic Neurology, Mass Psychogenic Illness; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Sounds in the Sky; Science or Fiction
Interview with Eugenie Scott; This Week in Skepticism; News Items: NECSS 2012, Photographic Black Holes, SOPA-PIPA, Homeopathic Burn Treatment, Ice Forms; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Tricorder X-prize, Sheldrake on Presentiment, Physics Cranks, Witchhunter Comes to US; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Martin Rundkvist; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Psychic Predictions 2011, Hacker Satellite, Testing Violins; Quickie with Bob - Lost World of Antarctica; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
SGU 2011 Year in Review; Special Guest Mike Lacelle; Best and Worst of 2011; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Special Guests: George Hrab and Jamy Ian Swiss; Christopher Hitchens In Memoriam; News Items: Mammoth Bone Homes, Trillion Frames per Second, Neti Pot Dangers; Who's That Noisy; Special Report: Randomness; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Pro-Measles Children's Book, Higgs Update, Mercury UFO, Hallucinating Color; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Menstrual Syncing; Swindler's List: Online Dating; Science or Fiction
Interview with Lawrence Krauss; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Trudeau Fine Upheld, Planetary Probes, Cloning a Mammoth, Kepler 22b; Who's That Noisy; Corrections; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi; News Items: Detecting Digital Manipulation, Curiosity Heads to Mars, Creationist Bill Defeated in NH, Scorpios Need Not Apply, Jetpack Flies with Jets; Special Report: Burzynski Clinic Intimidates Bloggers, with Rhys Morgan; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Tomato Juice Color; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism: JFK Assassination; News Items: Power Balance Bankruptcy, FTL Neutrino Follow Up, Does Water Prevent Dehydration, Food Color and Taste; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: SILLY Bias in Scientific Reviews; Science or Fiction
Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Moon's Magnetic Field, Europa's Ice Surface, False Confessions; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: BMJ Poe, Catholic Pox Parties; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Stroke Turns Man Gay, Asteroid YU55, Pox Parties, US Government Denies UFOs, Man Confuses Moon for UFO, NASA's Orion Program; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Intercessory Prayer; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Climate Change Confirmation, Steve Job's Cancer, New GPS, Pre-Clovis Find; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Brush Before or After; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Banachek; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Seeing Through Walls, Malaria Vaccine, Luckiest Cities, New Name for VLA, Another Failed Prediction; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Wiseman; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Jay Report from Italy, Faster Than Light Neutrinos, Reiki Doesn't Work, Ending Genital Cutting, Camping Prophesy Update; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde; This day in Skepticism; News Items: Vitamins and Mortality, Megavirus, NDEs, More UFOs, Electrosense, Airborne Petition; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Steve Jobs Dies, Nobel Prizes 2011 for Physics, Medicine, and Chemistry, IgNobels for 2011; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Highlights from the SGU 24 Live Streaming event; Interview with Australian Skeptics: Richard Saunders, Dr. Rachie Dunlop, Jo Benhamu; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Grail Craft Launch, A. sediba, Adaptation and Orgasm; Special Report: Siphonomores; Top 10 Future Technologies; Science or Fiction
Special Guests: George Hrab and Brian Brushwood; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Single Molecule Electric Motor, Registering Atheists; Special Report: Nature vs Nurture; Science or Fiction
Interview with Sara Mayhew; This Day in Skepticism; New Items: Chinese Scientists Plan to Capture Asteroid, Acupuncture and Acoustic Waves; Science or Fiction
Live from DragonCon 2011; This Day in Skepticism: 9-11 Comic; News Items: Diamond Planet, Homeopathic Water, Woolly Rhino, Editor Resigns of Global Warming Paper; Science or Fiction; Live Q and A
Interview with Jad Abumrad; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Hurricane Irene, ISS Threatened, LHC and Super Symmetry, Alien Signals; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Tin Foil, Skeptical Shout-Out; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Virginia Earthquake, Brand Loyalty; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Tin Foil and RFID; Swindler's List: Functional Medicine; Science or Fiction
Interview with Paul Provenza; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Non-Growing Earth, Boiron Threatens Blogger, Woman Romance and Science, Space X Going to the Space Station; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on Helium; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Anti-Matter in Space, 3D Brain Mapping, Time Shift, 4-Time Lottery Winner; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Robert Johnson; Science or Fiction
Interview with Elizabeth Loftus; This Day in Skepticism - Life on Mars; News Items: The 27 Club, Blood-Red Lake, Earth Trojan Asteroid, Radioactive Heat; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: If It Can't Be Measured; Science or Fiction
Interview with Bill Nye; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Skeptical Conferences, Victory for Evolution in Texas, New Moon for Pluto, Life in the Universe, Connecticut Chupacabra; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live from TAM9; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Comet Elenin, Forces of Darkness, Science Proves the Bible (Not), Last Shuttle Launch, Pastafarian Headgear, Organic Water, Graphene Water Battery, Youngest Dinosaur Fossil; Live Q&A: Skeptical Wins, 24 Hour Live SGU Show, Reconciling Faith and Skepticism, Craniosacral Therapy, Favorite Science Jokes, Sam Harris, How SGU Started; Science or Fiction
Interview with Matthew Chapman; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Hypnotized to Death, Color of Extinct Birds, Magnetic Microprocessors, Twintuition; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mail: Creationist Arguments; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Classifying Galaxies, More Pareidolia, Easter Island Elixir, Driverless Cars, Elevatorgate; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Eugenie Scott; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Tau Day, Body Temperature of Dinosaurs Measured, Magnets and Blood Flow, Guru in Sweat Lodge Death Convicted, Close Call for the Space Station; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Michael Waterhouse; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: We Are All Mutants, Human Gecko, Creationists Infiltrate Geology Meeting, Battery Man; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Two New Elements, The Decline Effect, Zicam Inventor Arrested, Lasers from Human Cells, Mood Ears; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: The Enemy Within; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Phil Plait; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: SGU-24, Psychic Tip, Explosion on Sun, Moon Origin, UFO Nazis; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jamie Bernstein; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Predicting Earthquakes; Mapping the Brain; Implanting Memories; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Rapture Rationalizations, Fake Moon Rock, Dark Energy Confirmed, Religious Right vs Women's Rights, Preparing for a Zombie Apocalypse; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Banning Marmite; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi; This Week in Skepticism; News Items: Rapture, Another Cancer Cure, Gut Bacteria and Behavior, Habitable Exoplanet, Higgs False Alarm; Who's That Noisy; Swindlers List: Bidsell; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jon Ronson; This Week in Skepticism; News Items: Einstein Right Again, Mark Geier's License Suspended, Moon Microbe Mystery, Steytlerville Monster; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Yap Money; Science or Fiction
This Day in Science and Skepticism; News Items: Six years of SGU, Easter Island Controversy,Bin Laden Conspiracies; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Seth Shostak; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: A Skeptic in Oz, More Creationism in Texas, Higgs Rumor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Iszi Lawrence; This Week in Skepticism; News Items: Hottel UFO Document, New Method to find Exoplanets, Plans for NASA Shuttles, Power Balance Lawsuit, Nails of Christ; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
SGU Live from NECSS 2011; Special Guest Rogue: John Rennie; News Items: Gayveman, Cosmic Engineering, Homeopathy for Radiation and Vertigo, Evidence and Radiation Risk; You Know You're a Skeptic If; Science or Fiction; Live Q&A: Time Travel, Fecal Transplants, Skeptical Obligation
This Day in Skepticism: The Mercury 7; News Items: Pioneer Anomaly Solved, Pigasus Awards, Wakefield and Somalis, Boy Genius; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thorium Reactors; Science or Fiction
Interview with Kenny Feder; This Day in Skepticism; News Items: Colorado UFO, Breaking Heisenberg, Dinosaur Petroglyph; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Dinosaur Taxonomy; Science or Fiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2010 Year in Review; Best and Worst of 2010; In Memoriam; SGU Stats; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Guest Rogue: Phil Plait; News Items: Phil Plait's Bad Universe, Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay, Competition in Evolution, The Science of Zombies, Kurzweil Responds to Myers, Kaku on UFOs; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Bruce Hood; News Items: Banning Wi-Fi, Psychic Finds Wrong Body, Kurzweil on Brain Complexity, Magnetars and Black Holes; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Aubrey de Grey; News Items: Evolving Simulated Intelligence, Proximal Intercessory Prayer, Bermuda Triangle Solved, Booty Enhancement Spell, Censoring Skepticism featuring Interview with Rhys Morgan; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: DIY Genetic Testing, Coronal Mass Ejection, More Evidence for Warming, Analyzing the Future, Misfortune Teller; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on Dieting; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jim Underdown; News Items: Homeopathy in the UK, Cosmology with no Big Bang, Ghost Ship, Meat and Weight Control; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Biodynamic Farming, Orgel's Laws; Science or Fiction
Interview with Randi & Banachek; News Items: Report from TAM8, Monster Star, Anti-Vax in Oz, Kabbalah Bracelet, Monkey Fossil, Monkeys in the Pants, Libel Tourism Bill; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Live Recording from TAM8; News Items: Roswell Remembered, Nuclear Explosion in Space, Pepsigate, Energy Vampires, Gravitons and Black Holes, Obesity and Inactivity, Climategate Update, Planck Image of the Universe; Live Q&A: NESS Activities, Do Skeptics Ever Win?, Positive Attitude and Healing, Science of Love, SGU Editing, Art in Skepticism, True Believer Interviews, Live Million Dollar Challenge; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: George Hrab; News Items: Fin to Limb Evolution, Pat Boone on Laws of Physics, Ice Patch Archaeology, Stephen Barrett Sued; Your Questions and E-mails: Flag Worship; Science or Fiction
News Items: Whooping Cough Epidemic, Whaling Film Questioned, Superconductor Roadblock, Call to Ban Homeopathy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Orbital Periods, Sunscreen; Science or Fiction
Interview with Sanal Edamaruku; News Items: Growing Livers, Immortal Jelly, Gay Clinic, Space Storm Warning; Science or Fiction
News Items: Hayabusa Returns, Einstein's Brain, Largest Radio Telescope Array, Amityville Horror House for Sale; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Cursed Cell Phone Number, Soy, Magic Bee Juice; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Steve Matheson; News Items: Life on Titan, Vulture Threatened by Pseudoscience, WHO and H1N1; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Orbit of Phobos; Science or Fiction
Special Guests: Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay; News Items: X-37b Space Plane, Synthetic Bacteria, Hollow Phobos, Acupuncture Mechanism?, Guatemala Sinkhole; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Salt Substitute; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi about Martin Gardner; News Items: Energy of Early Life, End for Mars Phoenix Lander and Atlantis, Vaccine Safety, Accepting Science, Exonerated by Acupuncture; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Cell Phone Cancer Update, Why Does Matter Exist, Applied Kinesiology, BMA Trashes Homeopathy, Early Bird Feathers, Ball Lightening, Pesticides and ADHD; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Massimo Pigliucci; News Items: Nonsense on Stilts, Definition of Siphon, Neanderthal Interbreeding, Evolution in Alabama Politics, Science of Morality; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: 5 Years of SGU, Zettabytes, Prayer and Critical Thinking, Oil Spill Conspiracy, Life on Mars - Not, How to Build a Time Machine, Man Claims 70 Years Without Food or Water; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Croatian Girl Follow up; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dr. Dean Edell; News Items: 20 Years of Hubble, Nanodots, Boobquake, Stephen Hawking on Aliens, Noah's Ark; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Intelligence and Science; Science or Fiction
Live from NECSS 2010, with Special Guest: James Randi; Items: Volcano in Iceland, Near Death Experiences, Sound Bullets, Injured by Price Scanner, Singh Libel Suit dropped, Two Moms and a Dad, Girl Speaks German After Coma; Science or Fiction; Live Questions
Interview with Seth Shostak; News Items: Apollo 13, Water on Mars, Bioprinting, Scientific Literacy in the US, Dawkins vs The Pope; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Colour Therapy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Area 51 Declassified, Ununseptium, SBM visits NCCAM, Copper Magnetic Jesus Bracelet; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Human Population, Dutch Psychic Follow up; Name That Logical Fallacy: The Genetic Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Eugenie Scott; News Items: Update from the NCSE, Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticles, Prison Psychics, Changing Morality with Magnets; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptics and Atheists; Science or Fiction
Interview with George Hrab; News Items: Rise of the Dinosaurs, Woman X, Starchild Update; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Evangelical Listeners; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Greg Grunberg; News Items: When Homeopaths Attack, Texas Textbook Hubbub, Bacterial Fingerprint, Chief Exorcist, Biggest Quantum State; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Power Balance; Science or Fiction
News Items: Jenny on Huffpo, Autistic Pets, See-through Pain, Homeschooling and Evolution, Here's Your Jetpack, Spirits in a Bottle; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Richter Scale, Raining Fish Follow Up, Inner Space; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: James Randi; News Items: Chile Earthquake, Darwinius Revisited, Raining Fish, Acupuncture for Depression, Haunted Hotels; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Contrarion vs Skeptic, Personality Tests; Science or Fiction
Interview with Daniel Wilson; News Items: Homeopathy Smackdown in UK, What Darwin Got Wrong, The Bloom Box, Geller Aids Cops; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
News Items: Rom Houben Update, Solar Energy Breakthrough, Psychic Killed; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Gas from Carbon, Thomas Paine, Knocked Out; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Brian Dunning; News Items: Enceladus Update, Synthetic Organisms, Spray On Glass, Gasoline from Carbon, Oral Conception; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy: False Analogy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Simon Conway Morris; News Items: Fusion Breakthrough, Andrew Wakefield Rebuked, Return of Death Cat; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lady Gaga Illuminati; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Daniel Loxton; News Items: Book Release: Evolution, Dowsing for Bombs, Alien Life on Earth, Ginger Dinosaurs, I have Lizards in my Pants; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Addiction; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jon Rosenberg; News Items: Dead Bodies, Blond Warrior Princesses, Trees on Mars; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Correactology, Ayn Rand; Science or Fiction
Special Guest: Richard Saunders; News Items: TAM Australia, Tetrapod Footprints, Airport Security - with Bruce Schneier, Nearby Supernova, Cancer Miracle; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Evil Skeptics; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with D. J. Grothe; News items: Predictions for 2009 and 2010, The G-Spot Controversy, New Stellar Companion; Who's That Noisy; Your E-mails and Questions: Brain Capacity; Science or Fiction
2009 Year in Review - with Special Guests Phil Plait and Mike Lacelle; SGU and Science News of 2009; Science and Skepticism in the Last Decade; Science or Fiction Stats; SGU in 2010
Interview with Michael Specter; News Items: Dark Matter WIMPS, Synaesthesia; Your Questions and E-mails: The Future of Skepticism, LHC Risk with Brian Cox; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: Steorn Still At It, Computer-Brain Interface, Ancient Ruins in the Caribbean, Octopus Coconuts, Homeopathic Suicide; Your E-mails and Questions: Holodeck Food; Special Report: Coalition for Libel Reform; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items - With Special Guest Phil Plait: Denver Aliens, Bird Speciation, Blinded by Faith, Spiral over Norway, Uranus Tilt, Methane on Mars; Your Questions and E-mails: Homeopathy Ads; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Steven Thoms; News Items: Age of Autism Scandal, Porkenstein, Fat Murder Hoax; Your Questions and E-mails: ClimateGate Feedback; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: LHC Online, Coma and Facilitated Communication, ClimateGate, CrocoDuck; Your Questions and E-mails: Speaking in Tongues; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Kenny Feder; News Items: New Mammography Guidelines, Water on the Moon, Dark Flow, Lee Harvey Oswald Photo, Movie Reviews; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Special Report: H1N1 Flu Pandemic Update - With Steven Novella, David Gorski, Mark Crislip and Joe Albietz
News Items: Psychic Finds Skeleton, Dystonia Flu Shot Follow Up, More LRO Images, Paying for Prayer; Your Questions and E-mails: Wave Particle Duality; JREF Announcements; Special Report from TAM London with Simon Singh, Jon Ronson, and Adam Savage; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: Carl Sagan Day, Nutt Job, Dystonia after Flu Shot, Spontaneous Human Combustion Case; Interview with Michael Goldstein - starting a local skeptical group; Rebecca reports from TAM London with Phil Plait, Chris French, and Christina Martin; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: Swine Flu Scams, Hulda Clark Died of Cancer, The Physics of Homeopathy, Scientology Trouble, Suzanne Somers Cancer Quackery; Your Questions and E-mails: Size of the Universe (With Special Guest - Pamela Gay), Mad Scientists, Suspended Animation; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
Interview with James Randi; News Items: LHC Future Attack, Magnetic and Copper Bracelets; Balloon Boy; Lunar Plume Update; Giant Spider; Special Report: Rebecca from Bangkok; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Jack Horner; News Items: NASA Shoots the Moon, Saturn's Rings, Hypno Cat, Simon Singh Update; Your Questions and E-mails: Plasma Rocket, This Man; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Daniel Hooper; News Items: Premanand In Memoriam, Nobel Prizes 2009, Ardipithecus Ramidis, Autism Prevalence; Interview with Brian Cox; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Mark Edward; News Items: Premanand Statement, Dinosaur News, Nanotube Springs, Cameron and Comfort on Darwin, Couple Jailed over Homeopathy Death; Your Questions and E-mails: Spiritual Advice, Life Signs, Speed of Light; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Michael Vassar; News Items: Raptor Rex, Bill Maher Antiscience, Panama Monster; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Live from NECSS with Special Guest Richard Wiseman; News Items: Charlie Sheen 911 Truther, Quantum Amnesia, Hulda Clark Dead, Gonzalez Therapy Fail, What's in Your Wallet, Exomoons, Great Tits Eat Bats; Special Report: The Yale Study; Science or Fiction; Live QA
News Items: Live from DragonCon 2009, Google UFO, Mongolian Death Worm, Chupacabra in Texas, Magnetic Monopole; Live Q&A Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Adam Savage; News Items: Multitasking, Methane Fog on Titan, Google Nessie, Evolving Mice; Your Questions and E-mails: Appendix, iPhone Crap App; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss; News Items: Surviving a Cataclysm, Zombie Apocalypse, WHO Says No to Homeopathy,Itako Fading, Dinochicken; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
News Items: Battery Update, Super Planetary Nebulae, Adopt a Star, UFO Spikes; Your Questions and E-mails: Aquatic Ape, Caffeine Tolerance; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Michael Goudeau; News Items: Kepler Goes Online, Methane on Mars, MS Breakthrough, Placebo Medicine; Your Questions and E-mails: Birthers; Name That Logical Fallacy: Homeopathy Nonsense; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Skepchick Carrie Iwan; News Items: Teeth from Stem Cells, Stem Cell Clinic Raid, Laser Propulsion, Update on Simon Singh; Your E-mails and Questions: Origin of Matter, 4-minute Interval Training; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Jennifer Ouellette; News Items: Oldest Animal Fossils, New State of Matter, FDA Say Mercury Amalgam Safe, Past Life Hypnotism, Stressful Sweat; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with DJ Grothe; News Items: 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, Copernicium, Thomas Jefferson and Evolution; Your Questions and E-mail: Dowsing; Science or Fiction; Who's that Noisy
Live Recording from TAM 7; News Items: Microbot Plumbers, Archeological Dig, Sunspots Return, Blogs vs Journalists, Genie Sued; Science or Fiction; Live Questions; Rebecca's Wedding
Interview with Phil Plait; News Items: Steorn Fail, BCA Responds to Singh, Salt Water in Enceladus, Uranium on the Moon, Apollo 11 Video, Impact Bad Astronomy; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
Interview with Richard Prum; News Items: Ancient Lakes on Mars, Smoke Ring UFO, FDA Zicam Warning, Missing Sun Spots; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
Interview with Brian Brushwood; News Items: Junior Supernova, Boy Hit By Meteor, A New Heuristic, Planetary Life; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
Interview with Richard Wiseman; News Items: Negative CAM Research, Chiropractors In Retreat, Quantum Mechanics, Flu Pandemic Update; Your questions and E-mails: Youngest Skeptic, Prescient Genes; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
Interview with Bruce Hood; News Items: Crop Circles 2009, Chronic Lyme Disease, Casino Feng Shui, UFO follow up; Your Questions and E-mails: Liver Flush for Gallstones; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Simon Singh; News Items: Newsweek vs Oprah, Volcanic Extinction, UFO News, Texas Update; Your Questions and E-mails: Evangelical Skeptics, Begging the Question; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
Interview with Phil Plait; News Items: Whooping Cough Increase, Scientology on Trial, RNA World, Rook Tool Use, Northeast Skeptical Conference; Your Questions and E-mails: Polonium Halos; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: SGU 200th Episode, Missing Link Ida, GPS Failure, Stem Cell Quackery in China; Your Questions and E-mails: Candiru, If I Had a Million Dollars; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Rusty Schweickart; News Items: Simon Singh's Lawsuit, Ultradense Deuterium, Acupuncture Science, Last Fix for Hubble; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview With Rachael Dunlop; News Items: Four Years of SGU; Oprah Signs Jenny McCarthy; Dark Matter; Six Degrees of Separation; Homeopathy Death; Your Questions and E-mails: I Have Birds in my Pants; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Mark Crislip; News Items: Hidden Photons, Walking Seal, NASA and the Moon, Baby Chupacabras; Your Questions and E-mails: Hoagland on Iapetus; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Seth Shostak; News Items: Cassini Pictures, Smallest Exoplanet, Huffington Post Pseudoscience, Personal Attacks from Age of Autism, Kelloggs Settles FTC Suit; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: John Maddox Dies, The Hand of God, Flying Microbots, Darwin Awards, Homeopathy Nonsense, Belief in Ghosts; Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Induction in Science; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Daniel Loxton; News Items: Dennis Lee Strikes Again, Computers That Do Science; Your Questions and E-mails: Home Energy Scam; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Paul Murray; News Items: Mind Controlled Robot, Giant Protozoan, More Jenny McCarthy Nonsense; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: Cold Fusion Again, Evolution Education in Texas, Synthetic Blood; Questions and E-mails: Richard Saunders Open Letter to Pharmacists, Quantum Jumping, Super Chimney; Name That Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks; Science or fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Phil Plait; News Items: Pope on HIV and Condoms, 20th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, Canada Science Minister and Evolution; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Kenneth Miller; News Items: Stem Cell Ban Lifted, When Chimps Attack, Mellow Yellow, Prince Charles Snake Oil; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Kenny Feder - Clovis Find; News Items: Vaccine Decision, Designer Babies, Riversnake Update, TAM7 Info; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
News Items: Virtual Snowflakes, Evolution of Sex, Revenge of Titanoboa, Google Atlantis, Catboy; Your Questions and E-mails: Missing Moon, Moon and Sun; Randi Speaks; Whos That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Angie McQuaig; News Items: The Pose and Darwin, Ben Goldacre vs the Media, Healing Laser; Your Questions and E-mail: Starseeds, the eHolster; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Whos That Noisy
Interview with Jon Ronson; News Items: Wakefield Fraud, Wearable Computer, Amish Fireplace, LHC Delay; Your Questions and E-mails: Blood Type Follow Up, China Spacewalk Hoax; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Massimo Pigliucci; New Items: Singularity University, Mammoth Extinction, Smallest Exoplanet,Blood Type Pseudoscience; Your Questions and E-mails: Scientific Predictions; Science or Fiction; Whos that Noisy
Interview with Tim Minchin; News Items: Mercury In Our Food, Vaccine Controversy Updates, Evolution - Lizards and Fire Ants, Obama UFO; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Alice Tuff; News Items: The Holographic Universe, Science Education in Texas and Louisiana; Your Questions and E-mails: Pheromones, Dyslexia; Randi Speaks: Not in a Name; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Interview with Michio Kaku; News Items: Methane on Mars, Solar Storms, Mega MRI; Your Questions and E-mails: Young Skeptics; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
Psychic Predictions 2008; News Items: True Love, Jett Travolta, Christine Maggiorie, Detox Fail, Weblog Awards 2008; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy
2008 SGU Year in Review: Best Skeptics, Worst Promoters of Woo, Coolest Science News, Funniest Moments, Favorite E-mails, and SGU Stats
News Items: Jeremy Pivens Mercury Toxicity, Death by CAM, da Vinci Sketches Discovered, Medium Experiments Follow up; Your Questions and E-mail: ET Life, Winter Myths; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Wiseman; News Items: Reading Minds; Burglar Trapped by Ghost
Your Questions and E-mail: The Bloop, Evolution Questions; Science or Fiction
News Items: Age of the Sphinx with Dr. James P Allen, Supernova Reflections and Milky Way's Black Hole with Phil Plait, Searching for Dyson Spheres; Your Questions and E-mail: Skeptical Authority; Randi Speaks: Cold Reading; Science or Fiction
News Items: Early Earth, Turtle Missing Link, Search for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Power from Sound; Your Questions and E-mail: DNA from Hair, Magic Water, Starting a Skeptics Group, Carbon Footprint; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Steven Schafersman; News Items: Kevin Trudeau Smackdown, Placebo Acupuncture, NASA Recycles Urine, Reflexology in UK Schools; Your Questions and E-mail: Flu Vaccine, NESS in Video Game; Science or Fiction
News Items: Exoplanet Pictures, Neuroscience of Telepathy, Jonestown Massacre, Science Attitudes; Your Questions and E-mail: More Info on Sperm Donation, Sleepwalking, Global Warming; Science or Fiction
Interview with Paul Offit; News Items: Junk DNA, Mini Nuclear Reactor, Chandrayaan-1 Update, Phoenix Ends, Child Witches; Science or Fiction
Interview with Greydon Square; News Items: Michael Crichton In Memoriam, Portable Space Shield, Oil from Fungus; Your Questions and E-mail: Due Diligence; Randi Speaks - Wrong!; Science or Fiction
Interview with Diana Blaney
News Items: Vampire Moth, New Type of Planet, Artificial Heart, Polygraph for Debates, Science Debate 2008 Update
Science or Fiction
Interview with Phil Plait
News Items: Psychology of Superstition, Another Solar Breakthrough, UK UFO, Announcing SkepticBlog
Your Questions and E-mails: Blacklight Free Energy
Science or Fiction
Perry DeAngelis Memorial Live Podcast
Special Guests: Steve Mirsky and Terrence Hines
Science or Fiction
Interview with PZ Myers; News Items
2008 Nobel Awards, Turing Test
Your Questions and E-mails: Darwin Quote, Cosmology
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
Interview with Matthew Chapman
News Items: Dust and Snow on Mars, PETA Nonsense, Calorie Restriction Diet
Your Questions and E-mails: LHC Update, Correlation and Causation, Emergent Intelligence, Neanderthal DNA
Science or Fiction
Interview with Sharon Begley
News Items: LHC Problems, Worthless Acupuncture Studies, Japan Space Elevator, Belief and Credulity
Your Questions and E-mails: Real versus Scientific
Science or Fiction
Interview with Ben Goldacre
News Items: Goldacre LIbel Victory, Stellar Mystery, Creationism in the UK
Your Questions and E-mails: Pharma Conspiracy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Randi Speaks: The Media
Science or Fiction
Interview with Ben Radford
News Items: LHC Turned On, Elephant Math
Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Correction,Irradiated Food, Pseudoscience
Science or Fiction
SGU Live from DragonCon 2008 with special guests James Randi, Pamela Gay, and Derek Colanduno
News Items: The Milky Ways Supermassive Blackhole
Live Questions
Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Saunders
News Items: WTC-7 Collapse, Neanderthal Tool Making, Rainbow Lady Follow Up
Your Questions and E-mails: Teleportation
Science or Fiction
Interview with Adam Savage from Mythbusters;News Items: Remembering Perry, Monkey Eludes Dragnet, Bigfoot Body Hoax Revealed, Robot with Biological Brain, The Future of Doping;Special Report: JREF Psychic Challenge Report;Science or Fiction
Interview with Captain Disillusion;News Items: Bigfoot Body Claim, Invisibility Cloak, Prince Charles on GM Food, Sprinkler Rainbow Lady;Science or Fiction
Interview with Phil Plait and James Randi; News Items: James Doohan Ashes Lost, Solar Power Breakthrough, China Weather Control, The Montauk Monster; Your Questions and E-mail: Where Does Matter Come From; Science or Fiction
Interview with Banachek; News Items: Edgar Mitchell UFO Claims, UFOs and Terrorism, Gas from Garbage; Your Questions and E-mail: House and the Therapeutic Diagnosis; Science or Fiction
Interview with George Hrab; News Items: New Plutoid, Detox Danger, Amanda Peet Defends Vaccines, Barbara Walters Disses James Van Praagh, Allah Meat; Your Questions and E-mail: Chaos Theory; Science or Fiction
Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson; News Items: Black Hole Hubbub, Its Just a Cracker, Tiktalik Nonsense, Micro Laser Surgery; Your Questions and E-mail: Convincing Evidence; Science or Fiction
Interview with James Randi; News Items: Einstein Right Again, Conservapedia Denies Evolution, Controversial Chelation Autism Study; Special Report: Roswell 61 Years Later; Science or Fiction
Interview with Dr Dean Edell; News Items: Darwin-Wallace Anniversary, Tunguska Remembered, Creationst Bill Passes in Louisana, Nanowire Battery, SGU on Youtube; Your Questions and E-mails: Collective Skeptics, Body Fruit; Randi Speaks: Speaker Cables; Science or Fiction
SGU Live from TAM6; News Items: Ice on Mars, Crop Circle Pi, Japanese Water Car, Psychic Alleges Sexual Abuse, FDA Crackdown, Spa Reflexology; Special Report-Brian Dunning Present Here Be Dragons Video; Live Questions from the Audience; Science or Fiction
Interview with Jon Blumenfeld; News Items: NPR Psychics, Mars Lander Update, Petaflop Supercomputers, Optical Illusions; Your Questions and E-mails: Casey Predictions; Science or Fiction
News Items: Bacteria Evolve, The 100mpg Car, Unicorn Deer, Fishing Monkeys, Plutoids, Albinos in Africa; Special Report-Crystal Skulls; Your Questions and E-mails: Coincidence, Green Nanoparticles; Name that Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Walter Isaacson; News Items: New Hoax Alien Video, Solar Power from Sapce, Anti-Vaccine March on Washington, CAM in New Zealand Follow Up; Your Questions and E-mails: Cold Fusion; Science or Fiction
Interview with JPL Scientist Diana Blaney; News Items: Wi Fi Ban, New Zealand Considering CAM, Scientology Free Speech Follow Up, Medical Science Reporting; Your Questions and E-mails: Tasmanian Tiger Corrections; Least Skeptical; Science or Fiction
Interview with Carl Zimmer; News Items: Tasmanian Tiger Gene Resurrected, Mobile Phones and Pregnancy, Is Scientology a Cult, Supernova Caught in the Act, Interview with Michael Shull about Discovering Missing Matter; Your Questions and E-mails: Radiometric Dating of Mt St Helens; Update on TAM6; Science or Fiction
Interview with Martin Rundkvist; News Items: Einstein and God, The Vatican The UK and UFO's, China Quake Superstitions, NASA Announces Supernova Discovery, Creationism in Maine; Your Questions and E-mails: Wizardry Followup; Science or Fiction
SGU 3-Year Anniversary; News Items: Florida Anti-Evolution Law Fails, Florida Teacher Fired for Wizardry; Special Report: Bobs Haunted Tour; Your Questions and E-mails: T-Rex Proteins, Water Experiment, Misconceptions about Evolution, Consumer Reports and Homeopathy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Kirsten Sanford; News Items: Mystery Lights in Maryland, Evolution Freedom Law in Florida, Gary Null-HIV Denier; Special Report: The Real Iron Man; Science or Fiction
Interview with Simon Singh; News Items: Man Raised from Dead, Politics of Vaccines, Penis Theft Panic; Your Questions and E-mails: Oldest Plant, The SGU Drinking Game, Space Junk, Brain Gym; Science or Fiction
Interview with Eric Avery; News Items: Scientology Defection, Are Vitamins Harmful, Replicator Replicates Itself, ET Not Likely; Your Questions and E-mails: Age of the Earth, Magnetic Water; Science or Fiction
Interview with Yau-Man Chan; News Items: Skeptologists Shoot Complete, UK Psychic crackdown, LHC and the God Particle, Monty Hall Problem in Research; Your Questions and E-mails: Cursing in Sanskrit; Science or Fiction
News Items: The Skeptologists, Expelled Again, Human-Cow Hybrid, Tantric Killing Fails; Your Questions and E-mails: Debunking Skeptics, Dinosaur Fossils on the Moon; Science or Fiction
Interview with Eugenie Scott; News Items: Rebecca's Asteroid, Airborne Lawsuit, Pregnant Man, Hypnotist Robber; Your Questions and E-mails: Robin Migration, More on Soap; Science or Fiction
Interview with Stephen Barrett; News Items: Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90, Saudi Scholar Denies Holocaust, Michael Egnor on ID Podcast, Believers Stare at the Sun; Your Questions and E-mails: Boy Scout Follow Up, Cosmetic Pseudoscience; Science or Fiction
Interview with Ola Fincke about Science Education in Oklahoma; News Items: Ghosts in the Mind, US Government Settles Autism-Vaccine Case, Real Death Star, Drugs in the Water, The Skeptologists; Randi Speaks-about Gary Schwartz; Science or Fiction
Special Report: Timeshare Scams; News Items: Spaceprobe Anomalies, Aromatherapy Study, McCain on Autism and Vaccines; Your Questions and E-mails: CECTIC Skeptical Cartoon, Global Warming on Mars, Magneto Boy; Science or Fiction
News Items: McFeng Sui, Anti-Scientific Medicine in South Africa, Type IV Civilization, Killer Robots; Your Questions and E-mails: Favorite Science and Skeptical Books; Science or Fiction
Interview with Robert FitzPatrick; News Items: Lunar Eclipse, Censoring Skeptics, Scientific Challenges of 21st Century, Dualism; Your Questions and E-mails: Naadi Palm Leaf Reading; Science or Fiction
Interview with PZ Myers; News Items: Bat Evolution, UK Officials Evict Ghost, Acupuncture and IVF, Alien Mind Control, Darwin Day; Your Questions and E-mails: Fasting; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Hayes; News Items: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Dies,More Perpetual Motion, Voting in Invisible Ink, Canadian Snake Oil; Your Questions and E-mails: Organic Milk, Apocalypse 2012, SETI; Science or Fiction
News Items: UK Homeopathy In Crisis, Creationist Research Journal, Facilitated Communication in the Courtroom, ABC Drama on Vaccines and Autism, Arabian Brain Drain; Your Questions and E-mails: Got Milk, Psychic Cheat; Name that Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction
Special Guests Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay from Astronomy Cast; News Items: Texas UFO follow up, Mars Bigfoot, Homer on Mercury, Asteroid 2007 TU24, Bionic Eyes, Coast to Coast Gets Punked; Your Questions and E-mails: Restless Leg Syndrome, Time Travel, Relativity; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Dunning from Skeptoid; News Items: Scientists Make Beating Heart, Divining Intervention, UFO over Texas, Reaction to More Evidence Against Vaccines and Autism, Cruise Scientology Recruiting Video; Your Questions and E-mails: The K-T Extinction; Science or Fiction
Interview with John Rennie; News Items: SGU 5x5, The Reason Driven Podcast, Insects may have Killed the Dinosaurs, Biofuels; Your Questions and E-mails: Neti Pots, Healing Magnets; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction
News Items: New Science Based Medicine Blog, Psychic Predictions 2007, Edward to Channel Irwin, Masters Degree in Creation Science, Magic Amulets; Your E-mail and Questions: SGU for teachers, Magic Foot Pads, Quantum Entanglement and Warp Drive; Science or Fiction
Interview with Richard Wiseman; News Items: Rebecca's Pilot, Magic Leg, Creationists New Strategy; Your Questions and E-mails: Scientific Criticism, Cattle Mutilation, Eidetic memory; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Alex Tsakiris from Skeptiko about Paranormal Research and Skepticism; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Lawrence Krauss; News Items: Hucka-Bee, Moonbeams in Arizona, Chimp Memory, Anti-vaccine misinformation on Youtube; Your Questions and E-mails: Stem Cell Con, Information Theory; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Science and Faith, Computer Brain, Psychic Ripoff, Wifi and Autism; Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptiko on Skeptics; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Judgment Day Censored, Blue Ghost Followup, Death by Energy Medicine, Photo Memory Manipulation; Special Feature: Our Day at the Psychic Fair; Your Questions and E-mails: Bird Sex Correction; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Paul Kurtz; News Items: Judgment Day for ID, UFO Investigation, Universe loses weight, FDA Petition, Gas Station Ghost; Your Questions and E-mails: BMI; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Greydon Square; News Items: Phenomenon, Robot cars, Jehovahs Witness death, Fat is Healthy, Judgment Day, Follow up on Mange; Your Questions and E-mails: Special Request; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Ghosthunting Season, Report from the Homeopathy Conference, Rude 9-11 Truthers, Dinosaur Extinction, Mangy Bigfoot; Your Questions and E-mails: Supplements, Spine tingling; Randi Speaks: Jaque Benveniste; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Joe Nickell; News Items: Autism and Vaccines, Ben Stein on OReilly, James Watson Followup, The Dangers of Pseudoscience; Your Questions and E-mails: Honey, Flu Vaccine Myths; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Mark Crislip of QuackCast; News Items: Robot Marriage, Overeating Gene, New Dinosaur, Female Cult; Your Questions and E-mails: Watson on Race; Randi Speaks: Best Mentalist Trick; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Marc Abrahams of the IgNobels; News Items: Geller on NBC, More Acupuncture, Cell Phones and Cancer, World with Time; Your Questions and E-mails: Energy Follow up, Slain by Woo; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Jon Blumenfeld; News Items: Tom Cruise Bunker, The View of a Flat Earth, Fly Boy Follow up, Martial Arts Woo, Vaccine follow up; Your Questions and E-mails: 30 Year Battery, Orthomolecular Medicine; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Richard Saunders; News Items: Rebecca Wins, New Acupuncture Study, Academic Free Speech, Boy Survives Jet Ride; Your Questions and E-mails: Smart Sex, Colloidal Silver; Randi Speaks - Faith Healers; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Monkey Bird Love, Trouble for Trudeau, Free Energy, Medical Science, Judge believes in Elves; Your Questions and E-mails: HPV Vaccine, Autism Nonsense on Oprah; Name that Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with David Colquhoun; News Items: How the WTC Towers Fell, Burning Water, Extant Dodos; Your Questions and E-mails: SGU Affiliations, Peanuts, King Tut Follow up, Billy Meier; Randi Speaks: Mentalism; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Bill Nye the Science Guy; News Items: Airline Sacrifices Goats, King Tut, Is Race Real; Your Questions and E-mails: The Persistence of Myth; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
The Fans and Rogues remember Perry DeAngelis; News Items - Jerry Andrus: Another Skeptic Passes, HIV Denial, Jesus Appears in Fence, Ben Stein Expelled; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Perry DeAngelis 1963-2007; The Psychology of Belief - a lecture by Perry DeAngelis; The fans favorite clips of Perry
Opening Remarks by Steven Novella and Steve Mirsky; MC Todd Robbins; Live Questions: Autism Groups, Girls and Science, Nice Skepticism, Science Education; Science or Fiction
News Items: Largest Planet Discovered, New Da Vinci Conspiracy, Korean Stem Cell Controversy, UK UFO Followup; Questions and E-mail: Unproven Therapies, CO2 from Walking, AI Sense of Humor; Name That Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Barry Glassner; News Items: Death Cat, FDA Shuts Down DCA, Exorcisms Gone Bad; Questions and E-mail: Ward Churchill Correction, The Man with No Brain, The Overview Effect; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Jimmy Carter; News Items: Ward Churchill Fired, Homeopathic Surgeon, UK UFO, Asian Parasite Killing Bees; Your Questions and E-mails: Electric Car, Brain Evolution; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Scott Lilienfield; News Items: Most Distant Galaxy, Orbo Perpetual Motion Machine, Salt Water Fuel; Your Questions and Emails: Scientology and Homocide; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Barry Beyerstein In Memoriam, Black Cohosh and Liver Failure, Echinacea Meta-analysis, Jury Accuracy, Bishops and Floods; Your Questions and Emails: HIV and Condoms, Chiropractic and Colic, Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, Sickesz Follow Up; Name that Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Orac - The author of Respectful Insolence Science Blog; News Items: Do black holes exist, President Bush vetoes new stem cell bill, Legends for profit; Your Questions and Emails: Belgium skeptic sued, The Galileo gambit; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: SGU 100th Episode, 60 Years of Flying Saucers, Nano Drugs, Dino Big Bird; Your Questions and E-mails: Home Buying Pseudoscience, Magneto and Son, Acupuncture Brain Surgery; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Phil Plait - The Bad Astronomer; News Items: Creationism Poll, Academic Freedom, Mercury-Autism Controversy in Court, Mr. Wizard Dies at 89; Your E-mails and Questions: Rods, Zero Point Energy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Creation Museum in Canada, NASA on Global Warming, Chiropractic in VA Hospitals, Death by Pseudoscience, UFO Drone CGI, New Loch Ness Video; Your E-mails and Questions: Lunar Effect, Herxheimer Reaction, Chemtrails; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Creation Museum Opens, Licensing Psychics, Homeopaths Lame Response; Your E-mails and Questions: China Follow Up, Kevin Trudeau, UFO Drone; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with China Consultant Gareth Hayes; News Items: UK Scientists Reject Homeopathy, Boy Whose Parents Rejected Chemotherapy Dies, Scientology in Public Schools; Your E-mails and Questions: Is Science Made Up, Legislating Thought; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay from Astronomy Cast; News Items:Scientology vs the BBC, Rosie and 9-11, Star Kids, Multivitamins and Cancer; Your E-mails and Questions: Moo UFO; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Barry Beyerstein; News Items: The Encyclopedia of Life, Nanotech Spidy Suit, Bigfoot Endangered; Your E-mails and Questions: Corrections and Clarifications, Evolution Challenge; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Bug Girl - The Beetastrophy; News Items: Philly Shuts Down Psychics, Fire Melts Steel, Woman Hanged as Vampire; Your E-mails and Questions: Drake Equation, EM Sensitivity, Hitler Fallacy Revisited, Genetic Drug Therapy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Is Mental Illness Real, Earth-like Planet Discovered, Criminalizing Holocaust Denial follow up, Pill for Genetic Diseases; Your E-mails and Questions: Bacterial Flagella Follow Up, Vitrification; Name That Logical Fallacy - 9/11 Conspiracy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Susan Blackmore; News Items: More ID Nonsense from Dr. Michael Egnor, Criminalizing Holocaust Denial; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Quantum Computer?, Fermilab Flub, Dieting News, Time Travel, Meta Analysis; Your E-mails and Questions: Chiropractic Confusion, Death Star Conspiracy, Hugh Ross and Testable Creationism, Near Death Experiences; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: 9/11 Conspiracy Celebrities, Holy Water for AIDS, Astrology Fails Again, Fairy Hoax, Avoiding the Holocaust, Neal Adams on Fox; Your Questions and E-mails: Peanut Butter and Evolution, Peloop, When Birds Attack, Groupthink; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with David Seaman, DC; News Items: UFO news, Houdini exhumed, Buhhda boy returns; Your E-mails and Questions: PETA, GM foods, Satanic Barcode; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Robert Lancaster; News Items: Vernal Equinox, Prayer Meta-analysis, Creationist Teacher Fired, Polar Bear Euthanasia; Your E-mails and Questions: Pluto Corrections, Herbal Remedies; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Update on the Tomb of Jesus, The Revenge of Pluto, Robot Rights, More ID Nonsense; Your E-mails and Questions: ADHD, Nerves Conduct by Sound?; Name that Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Battle of the Diets, True Believers take on SGU, Modern Day Witch Trial; Your E-mails and Questions: Billy Meier Apologst; Name that Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Kenny Feder: The Tomb of Jesus and More; News Items: Update on Scientific Literacy, Human-Chimp Split, Mary on Pizza Pan; Segment #2. Your E-mails and Questions: Negativity, Vitamins, more on Angel Voices; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
TAM5 Interviews Part V: with Julia Sweeney, Richard Wiseman and The Onion Editor Scott Dickers; News Items: Angels Voices, New JFK Footage, Bigfoot Foot; Your E-mails and Questions: Psychics on Oprah, Zodiac Insurance; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
TAM 5 Interviews Part IV with Christopher Hitchens and South Parks Matt Stone; News Items: Psychic Healer, Score 1 for Evolution in Kansas, Paranormal Research Center Closes, Monkey Feng Shui; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
TAM5 Interviews Part III: Phil Plait the Bad Astronomer, and Mythbusters Adam Savage and Tory Belleci; News Items: Enviga Suit, Iran AIDS Cure, Creationists in Kenya; Your E-mails and Questions: Follow up on Global Warming, Youngest Skeptic; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
TAM5 Interviews Part II: John Rennie, Teller, Jim Underdown; News Items: Randi takes on Sylvia, The Hobbit Returns; Your E-mails and Questions: The God Question, Cults and Religion
Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
The TAM5 interviews with James Randi, Todd Robbins, Hal Bidlack and Eugenie Scott; News Items: Report from TAM5, Sylvia Browne, Uri Geller, Tom Cruise the Christ; Your E-mails and Questions: Meat-eating Rebecca, Terminal Velocity; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Stem Cell Debate, Randi Psychic Challenge (with an interview with Jeff Wagg); Your E-mails and Questions: Government Conspiracies, Herbal Remedies, Skeptical Movement, Scientology; Randi Speaks: Whats That Line; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Spencer Weart, author of The Discovery of Global Warming; News Items: Stem Cell Updates, Enviga, Hawking in Space, Weight loss pill firms fined; Your E-mails and Questions: Corrections, The Moon, True belief skeletons; Randi Speaks: Coincidence; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: NeuroLogica Blog, Evolution in Cobb County, 2006 Predictions, Homeopathy in Scotland; Your E-mails and Questions: Salt Lamps, UFOs, Intelligent Forces, Chelation Therapy; Randi Speaks: Optical Illusions; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
2006 Year in Review: Join the Skeptics' Guide host and the rogues as they look back at the year in science, skepticism, and podcasting.
News Items: Carl Sagan, Sylvia Browne Update, IQ and Vegetarians; Your E-mails and Questions: Santa Claus, Facilitated Communication; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle;
Interview with B. Alan Wallace
News Items: Tree Octopus, Irans Holocaust Denial; Your E-mails and Questions: Science and the Supernatural; Randi Speaks: Communication; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Paleontologist Ken Macleod - New Evidence for the Single Impact Theory; News Items: Holiday shopping scams, NASA plans moon base, Flowing water on Mars?, Molecular manufacturing; Your E-mails and Questions: Hi from Down Under, Chiropractic HIV denial, Testing ID, High Tech Dowsing; Randi Speaks: End of the World and other nonsense; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Mark Crislip; News Items: Paranormal Computer Storage, ID in the UK; Your E-mails and Questions: Corrections, Einstein, Ghost Photos, Neurolink; Randi Speaks: Mentalism; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Orgasm Day, Science of Deception, MoD warns of Aliens; Your E-mails and Questions: Wonders of the World, top 10 Scientific Discoveries; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Seth Shostak; News Items: Qi-Gong on You Tube, Cryotherapy,Chicken-Tac-Toe; Your E-mails and Questions: Hallucinations, Chiropractic, Religion and Mental Illness; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Kent Hovind Convicted, UFO Mocumentary, Bigfoot in Academia, Learn while you Sleep, Dolphin Legs; Your E-mails and Questions: Edgar Cayce, Quantum Love, Distribution of Pseudoscience, Workplace Skepticism; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Richard Wiseman; News Items: Pseudohistory of Exorcism, Glossolalia, Elephant Mirrors, Holiday Weight; Your E-mails and Questions: Anti-skeptics, Fox Parkinsons and Stem Cells, Face on Earth; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Stebbins, Scientists and Engineers for America; News Items: The Physics of Ghosts and Vampires, What killed the dinosaurs?; Your E-mails and Questions: Hallucinations, UFO cults; Randi Speaks: People in Space
Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Geller's Heir, Human speciation, New Element 118; Your E-mails and Questions: The 7th Fleet, Moon Robots, Vegetarians, Vitamin Supplements; Name That Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks: Homeopathy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Stuart Vyse, Author of The Psychology of Supersition; News Items: Friday 13th, Teaching Evolution in Michigan, Science in the UK, Comet to hit Earth; Your E-mails and Questions: Water Cycle, Selling the Moon; Name That Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks: Aromatherapy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Michael Shermer - Author of Why Darwin Matters; News Items: Skepchick-dude Calendars, Sexual arousal, Harry Potter; Your E-mails and Questions: Autism, Skepticism and sensitivity; Name That Logical Fallacy; Randi Speaks: Business Astrology; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Joe Nickell, Paranormal Investigator; News Items: Global Warming update, Face on Mars; Your E-mails and Questions: Lightening Rods, Psychic Astrology; Randi Speaks: Left Behind; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: James Randi Joins the Skeptics Guide, Male-Female Intelligence, Exorcism rape; Interview with Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer, about Eris, Pluto, NASA and more; Your E-mails and Questions: OBE's, More on 9/11, Denial; Randi Speaks; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: 9/11 news, Report from Mexico, No Gulf War Syndrome; Your e-mails: Persistant Vegetative State, Math vs Science, Thinking about the dead, Moon Hoax; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Ed Warren Dies, New ESP claims, Evolution of Superstition; Your E-mails and Questions: Korean fan deaths, New UK Homeopathy law, Science beliefs, Recycling; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Kimball Atwood, MD; News Items: Pope and ID, Hitler and Stalin Possessed, Pluto not a planet, Kabbalah; Your E-mails: Archaeological conspiracies, Skeptical Soldier, Abiogenesis Pseudoscience; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Larry Sarner; News Items: Water Tree Solved, Mystery Creature in Maine, Creationism update, Planet definition; Your E-mails and Questions: Acupuncture followup; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Ken Feder; News Items: Evolution Survey, water tree; Your E-mails and Questions: Abiogenic Origin of Oil,Dinosaur Petroglyphs, Acupuncture; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Steve Salerno; News Items: Happy Birthday James Randi, Archimedes Palimpsest; Your E-mails and Questions: Science and Falsifiability, Skeptics track record, FDA; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Creationism Museum, Kansas votes out Creationists, Coulter throws down the gauntlet; Your E-mails and Questions: Exorcism, PC, Chiropractic, Singularity; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
News Items: Possible increase for NASA budget, Indigo children; Your E-mails and Questions: Monkey eating eagle, Bird flight, Teachers respond to textbook criticism; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Bill Bennetta, The Textbook League; News Items: Rebecca Returns, Precious Bodily Fluids, World Jump Day; Your E-mails: Follow up on Neal Adams, Women in Science; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Neal Adams; News Items: Space Shuttle Mission, Asteroid near miss, Psychedelic mushrooms, Kevin Barrett and 9/11 conspiracies; Your E-mails: More on supplements, Peak Oil?; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed; News Items: Second hand smoke; Your E-mails: Binaural Beats, Aubrey de Grey; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle (answer plus new puzzle)
Your E-mails: Theory of Evolution, Agnosticism, Magnet therapy, Regulating supplements, Neuroethics; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Steve Mirsky, Scientific American; News Items: Herbs for menopause, Anne Coulter and evolution; Your E-mails: Penta Water, Alcoholism a disease?; Science or Fiction; Skeptical Puzzle
Interview with Zachary Moore: Evolution 101; News Items: Feng-shui, Hawking on space travel; Your E-mails: Consensus on Global Warming, God and the Big Bang; Science or Fiction
Interview with Phil Plait: The Bad Astronomer;News Items: Satans day, Skepchick infiltrates Christian Scientists;Your E-mails: Altruism genes, Follow up on 9/11 Hoax;Science or Fiction
News Items: Skeptics Guide Forum; 9-11 footage; UK Doctors fight against Alternative Med; Your E-mails: Cancer Cures, Dream Interpretation, Science vs God, Suns temperature; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Ray Hyman; News: Bosnian Pyramid update, Mormon cult leader hits FBI list; E-mail: Paranormal mysteries, Science education, Scientology super powers; Name that logical fallacy; Science or fiction
Interview with Eugenie Scott; News: UFO's in the UK, Scientology Superheroes; E-mails: Tracking Satellites, Drinking water; Science or Fiction
News Items: Bosnian pyramids, Toxic Cruise; Your E-mails: Bubble Universes, Iridology, Black holes, and the Origin of life; Name That Logical Fallacy; Discussion: The Scope of Skepticism; Science or Fiction
Interview with Brian Trent, author of Remembering Hypatia; News Items: Sonoma Bigfoot revealed, Channeling John Lennon; E-mails: More on Hurricanes and Birthdays, Bananas and logical fallacies; Science or Fiction
Interview with Marilyn Schlitz, ESP researcher; >News: More on the polar ice caps, Sad Monkeys, spinal stem cells and mercury amalgam; Your e-mails: gene multiplication, Skeptical Tools; Science or Fiction
News Items: Bill Nye, Tom Cruise, Time Travel, Global Warming, Happy Face on Mars; Your E-mails: Evolution, more on the flood, the psychosomatic effect and Science or Fiction
(News Items - fish evolution - prayer in medicine,E-mail - Noah's ark - EVP - more on the solar eclipse, Science or Fiction )
(Interview-Rick Ross, News Items: Solar Eclipse -The Woman who Never Forgets, YourE-mails: Panspermia -Hydrino power -Bigfoot -Microwaves, Science or Fiction )
News Items (more on Scientology and South Park, Noah's Ark), Bigfoot or Bison, E-mail (Cancer quacks, creationism in UK), Science or Fiction, DNA vs the Mormons
News Items (Buddha Boy, El Chupacabra, Scientology and South Park), What the Bleep: Down the Rabbit Hole, Your emails (water on enceladus), Science or Fiction
Interview with Rebecca Watson - founder of the Skepchicks, News Item (Magnet Therapy, Tax scams, Plastic Scare) Your E-mails, Science or Fiction,
News Items (more on ID, holy hardware), E-mail (G-spot, oil crisis, the 12th planet), Science or Fiction
Interview with Terrence Hines - author of Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, Science or Fiction
New UFO Coverup, News Items (Randi, ID, Jesus in court) Email (cholesterol and colon cleansing), Science or Fiction
News Items, Featured Website: Two sites on Science Myths, Feynman on Education and Textbooks, Your E-mail and Questions, Science or Fiction, Going Beyond Science?
Interview with Tara Smith of Iowans for Science; News Items, Your E-mail and Questions, More on HIV Denial, Science or Fiction
News Items, Ask the Skeptic, Science or Fiction, Two Views of American Education, Government and wacky science
Interview with Eric Altman from the Penn Bigfoot Society, Psychic Predictions for 2005, Darwin Day
News Items: Did Castro Kill JFK; Science or Fiction; Discussion Items: Iran Denies the Holocaust, Cell Research Fraud in South Korea, Political Correctness vs Freedom of Speech
Interview with Jan Helen McGee - Psychic Detective, Victory for Science and Reason in Dover
News Items: Holiday Scams; Science or Fiction; Discussion Topics: Eye Evolution, Venus the UFO, Video Games and Seizures, Psychic Detectives
Interview with Wallace Sampson, MD - Editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine, News Items, Intelligent Design and Weeping Icons
Interview with Tom W. Clark - founder of Naturalism.org, News Items, Intelligent Design Update
Intelligent Design and Idiocy, Putting the Psi into Science, The Starchild Project, Science or Fiction
UFO Landing Strip, Science or Fiction, Intelligent Design Update, Bigfoot Convention, Katrina Myths and Conspiracies
Bush-The Pope-and evolution -again, Science or Fiction, Atlantis, Modern Witch Hunts, Science and Hollywood
The Pope on Potter and evolution, Ghostbusting with Penn & Teller, Ask the Skeptic, Science or Fiction, Quackwatch
Science Magazine's 125 things we do not know, Science or Fiction, Tom Cruise, Scientology and Psychiatry, CT Warning on e-scams, Ramada Inn in Stratford Haunted
Interview with Massimo Pigliucci, Science or Fiction, Update on ID film in the Smithsonian Institution
Kansas Evolution Update, Science education failing in the US, Stem Cell Research, CropCircle Season.