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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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