The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Science Podcasts
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
Location:
New Haven, CT
Description:
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
Twitter:
@SkepticsGuide
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.theskepticsguide.org
Episodes
The Skeptics Guide #1054 - Sep 20 2025
9/20/2025
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
Duration:01:37:19
The Skeptics Guide #1053 - Sep 13 2025
9/13/2025
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
Duration:01:42:46
The Skeptics Guide #1052 - Sep 6 2025
9/6/2025
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
Duration:01:50:27
The Skeptics Guide #1051 - Aug 30 2025
8/30/2025
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
Duration:01:48:36
The Skeptics Guide #1050 - Aug 23 2025
8/23/2025
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
Duration:01:46:54
The Skeptics Guide #1049 - Aug 16 2025
8/16/2025
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
Duration:01:58:00
The Skeptics Guide #1048 - Aug 9 2025
8/9/2025
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
Duration:01:32:44
The Skeptics Guide #1047 - Aug 2 2025
8/2/2025
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
Duration:01:48:53
The Skeptics Guide #1046 - Jul 26 2025
7/26/2025
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
Duration:01:50:29
The Skeptics Guide #1045 - Jul 19 2025
7/19/2025
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
Duration:01:36:57
The Skeptics Guide #1044 - Jul 12 2025
7/12/2025
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
Duration:01:49:45
The Skeptics Guide #1043 - Jul 5 2025
7/5/2025
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
Duration:01:51:04
The Skeptics Guide #1042 - Jun 28 2025
6/28/2025
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
Duration:01:53:32
The Skeptics Guide #1041 - Jun 21 2025
6/21/2025
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
Duration:01:52:43
The Skeptics Guide #1040 - Jun 14 2025
6/14/2025
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
Duration:01:39:07
The Skeptics Guide #1039 - Jun 7 2025
6/7/2025
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
Duration:01:48:06
The Skeptics Guide #1038 - May 31 2025
5/31/2025
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
Duration:01:47:05
The Skeptics Guide #1037 - May 24 2025
5/24/2025
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
The Skeptics Guide #1036 - May 17 2025
5/17/2025
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
The Skeptics Guide #1035 - May 10 2025
5/10/2025
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