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Skeptics Guide #1057

The Skeptics Guide To The Universe

Release Date: 10/11/2025

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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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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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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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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

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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...

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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