Skeptics Guide #1097
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1096
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1095
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1094
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1093
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1092
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1091
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1090
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1089
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
info_outline
Skeptics Guide #1088
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
info_outlineWant to restore the planet's troubled ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 150 people to join Planet Wild with our code SKEPTICS9 will get their first month for free – and you will already have an impact on protecting the environment: Go to https://planetwild.com/skeptics and the code will automatically be applied. If you feel down about the state of our planet, check out this video about protecting Europe’s cutest bird from extinction: https://planetwild.com/skeptics/m18
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe Skepticast #1000 August 18th 2024 Segment #1. SGU 1000 Episodes The Rogues celebrate the recording of their 1000th episode, live in Chicago, with George Hrab. Segment #2. A Skeptical Retrospective News Item #1 – Global Warming News Item #2 – Solar Panel Technology News Item #3 – Fusion Hot and Cold News Item #4 – Medical Quackery News Item #5 – UFOs 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: 1000 Item 1: There are roughly 1000 stars within 45 light years of Earth. Item 2: A recent census of a 430 m^2 urban property (in Brisbane AU) found over 1000 macroscopic species. Item 3: In 2021 the median household income in the world was just over $1,000. Segment #4. Skeptical Quote of the Week "At the heart of science is an essential balance between an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense." - Carl Sagan