The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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

The Skeptics Guide #1058 - Oct 18 2025

News Items: Why People Believe Misinformation, Measles on the Rise, Is Therapy Speech, Solar Activity Increasing, Possible Wormhole; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; From TikTok: Earth in a Vacuum; Science or Fiction

10-18
01:45:52

The Skeptics Guide #1057 - Oct 11 2025

Interview with David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Steve: Liver Xenograft; News Items: Nobel Prizes 2025 for Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Long COVID Discovery; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

10-11
01:46:55

The Skeptics Guide #1056 - Oct 4 2025

Quickie with Bob: Galaxy Wave; News Items: Redrawing the Human Family Tree, Fig Wasps, ALS May Be Autoimmune, Complex Chemistry on Enceladus, Genius Act; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Kea Intelligence; Science or Fiction

10-04
01:41:53

The Skeptics Guide #1055 - Sep 27 2025

What's the Word: Autism; News Items: New NASA Mission Control, Element l120, Scalable Quantum Computer, Using AI Increases Lying, Scams and Fraud; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen as a Propellent; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

09-27
02:01:06

The Skeptics Guide #1054 - Sep 20 2025

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

09-20
01:37:01

The Skeptics Guide #1053 - Sep 13 2025

Quickie with Evan: Earth's Quasi-Moon; News Items: Guiding Tiny Robots, Tylenol and Autism, Music Choices as we Age, Wearable for Subtle Communication, Decreasing Science Scores; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Gold Nanowire Gel Batteries, Otters; Science or Fiction

09-13
01:44:53

The Skeptics Guide #1052 - Sep 6 2025

Quickie with Bob: Real Interstellar Technosignatures; News Items: Sexless Seeds, Spouses Share Psychiatric Disorders, CRISPR Improvement, Robotic Bee, Tin Man Syndrome Retraction, Super Wood; Who's That Noisy; Taxing Deductions; Science or Fiction

09-06
01:53:24

The Skeptics Guide #1051 - Aug 30 2025

Why Didn't I Know This: First Portable Computer; News Items: Brightest Fast Radio Burst, Trash into Biochar, Declining Reading Rates, Most Americans Skeptical of Paranormal, Quantum Alternative to GPS; Who's That Noisy; From TikTok: Mammograms; Science or Fiction

08-30
01:50:31

The Skeptics Guide #1050 - Aug 23 2025

Quickie with Steve: Using Fusion to Make Gold; News Items: Older Americans Using AI, Semi-Solid State EV, Ad Hominem Attacks Online, Non-Surgical LASIK, Now 3I-ATLAS is Glowing; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and Emails: Elemental Drugs; Science or Fiction

08-23
01:49:34

The Skeptics Guide #1049 - Aug 16 2025

News Items: Jim Lovell Dies at 97, Music Anhedonia, Lithium and Alzheimer's, CHAT GPT-5, Dangerous Worm Cleanse; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mini Nuclear Reactors; Who Am I; Science or Fiction

08-16
02:00:17

The Skeptics Guide #1048 - Aug 9 2025

Quickie with Bob: Water from Air; News Items: Depleted Uranium Batteries, Russia Earthquake and Volcanoes, New Shroud of Turin Analysis, Web of Space; Your Questions and E-mails: Hydrogen Powder, Lab Leak; From TikTok: Lyme Lab Leak; Science or Fiction

08-09
01:35:52

The Skeptics Guide #1047 - Aug 2 2025

From TikTok: More on 3I/Atlas and Aliens; News Items: Artery Calcium Scan, Microwave Beam for Geothermal Drilling, World's Largest Cargo Plane, Dental Floss Vaccine; Your Questions and E-mails: Apes Sign Language, Mama Cass; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

08-02
01:50:07

The Skeptics Guide #1046 - Jul 26 2025

What's the Word: Fossil Words; News Items: New Supermaterial, Avi Loeb and the Alien Hypothesis, Belly Fat Jab, Hormone Therapy, Death by Haunted Doll; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

07-26
01:53:42

The Skeptics Guide #1045 - Jul 19 2025

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

07-19
01:39:39

The Skeptics Guide #1044 - Jul 12 2025

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

07-12
01:51:35

The Skeptics Guide #1043 - Jul 5 2025

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

07-05
01:53:34

The Skeptics Guide #1042 - Jun 28 2025

What's the Word: Eco; News Items: Vaccinating the World, How Children vs AI Acquire Language, Vera Rubin Observatory, Visible Nova, Effects of Chat GPT on the Brain; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

06-28
01:53:01

The Skeptics Guide #1041 - Jun 21 2025

Guest Rogue: Justin Daab; From TikTok: Mysterious Moon; News Items: Scopes 100 Year Anniversary, Smells and Hunger, GMOs May Save Florida Citrus, Black Hole Supercollider, Antarctica Radio Pulses; Special Report: Does AI Think?; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

06-21
01:54:18

The Skeptics Guide #1040 - Jun 14 2025

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

06-14
01:41:11

The Skeptics Guide #1039 - Jun 7 2025

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

06-07
01:50:20

ID19619055

It’s really interesting listening to cis white people sit around and talk about how we need to “deal with it” about terrible, terrible people. Shall we do that with Nazi scientists as well? Your privilege is showing BIG TIME. No need to say anyone is “complicated”. It’s okay to say someone is a TERRIBLE human being who happened to be given capital and work with a good team to come up with a good idea. Good ideas or not, Musk (nazis) are still terrible humans. No need to be wishy washy.

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ID19619055

Enjoy being in, as I like to call it, Misery- along with all the Bible thumping evangelicals. Y’all like to have these shows where not all of your listeners are safe.

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ID19619055

I’ve seen these strokes at least 10 times in my 20 year career. It has GOT to be more than they are saying. It’s almost all young women and it’s a terrible avoidable situation.

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James Leatham

Yes

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Braden Wilson

anyone else having a problem playing this one?

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