Skeptics Guide #1067
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
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Skeptics Guide #1066
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
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Skeptics Guide #1065
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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 –...
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Skeptics Guide #1064
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
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Skeptics Guide #1063
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
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Skeptics Guide #1062
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
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Skeptics Guide #1061
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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
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Skeptics Guide #1060
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
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Skeptics Guide #1059
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
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Skeptics Guide #1058
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
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...
info_outlineQuickie 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