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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella

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

300 episodes

The Skeptics Guide #1108 - Oct 3 2026 3 Oct 2026 Special Guests: Christian Hubicki and Julia Novella; Designing Your Dream Costume; Conspiracy Theories; News Items: Stellar Streams and Dark Matter, Possible Cause of Chronic Fati…

The Skeptics Guide #1107 - Sep 26 2026 26 Sept 2026 Interview with Adam Kall and Troy Morris; What's the Word: Application; Whatever Happened to Lab Grown Meat; News Items: The Brain is a Composite Organ, Independence of Science Gr…

The Skeptics Guide #1106 - Sep 19 2026 19 Sept 2026 News Items: How Dangerous is AI, Memories of 9-11, Solar is Booming, GPT-6 Astra, Frisson; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Educating Children; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1105 - Sep 12 2026 12 Sept 2026 With Special Guest Christian Hubicki; Updating the Matrix; News Items: Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, Training Baby Robots, Testing Gravity in Space; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1104 - Sep 5 2026 5 Sept 2026 Live from LA with guests Andrea Jones Rooy and Brian Wecht; Living in LA; What Ever Happened To: Breakthrough Starshot, Fen-phen, The Coming Hydrogen Economy, String Theory, The S…

The Skeptics Guide #1103 - Aug 29 2026 27 Aug 2026 What's the word: Encephalopathy; News Items: AI Assisted Research Training, Robot Outruns Humans, Latest CTE Study, Bacteria Share Survival Genes; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions…

The Skeptics Guide #1102 - Aug 22 2026 22 Aug 2026 News Items: Drone Delivery System, Human Taxonomy, Peptide Wellness Fad, NASA Radiation Vest; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Model Railroaders, Leechbook, Genetic D…

The Skeptics Guide #1101 - Aug 15 2026 15 Aug 2026 News Items: Trump Order on Vaccines, Spying with WiFi, Diminishing Vegetables, Two Origins of Life, More Pentagon UFOs; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Thousand Year…

The Skeptics Guide #1100 - Aug 8 2026 8 Aug 2026 Live from Christchurch with guests George Hrab, Andrea Jones-Rooy, and Brian Wecht; Special Segment: SGU Down Under; News Items: Telescope Ranch, The Fate of Earth, The Science of…

The Skeptics Guide #1099 - Aug 1 2026 1 Aug 2026 Live from CSIcon Buffalo; CSI 50th Anniversary; News Items: Artemis III Crew Announced, Sniffing Out the Spotted Lanternfly, Human Echolocation, Are Cold Stars Alien Megastructure…

The Skeptics Guide #1098 - Jul 25 2026 25 Jul 2026 Live From Madison Wisconsin; Amending the Constitution; News Items: Believing in the Supernatural, Desalinating Water, Superheavy Cosmic Rays, AI Designed Bioweapons; Science or F…

The Skeptics Guide #1097 - Jul 18 2026 18 Jul 2026 Live from Seattle; Theaters vs Home Streaming; News Items: The Enshittification of Academic Publishing, Ending Forever Plastic, Reanalysis of Type Ia Supernova, Manipulating Gravi…

The Skeptics Guide #1096 - Jul 11 2026 11 Jul 2026 Special Guest: David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Bob: Two States of Water; News Items: Using AI To Detect AI Cheating, Teens Using AI Chatbots, NYT Article on Rapid Prompting Metho…

The Skeptics Guide #1095 - Jul 4 2026 4 Jul 2026 Back to Basics: Scientific Skepticism; News Items: Synthetic Cells, Trust in Science, Geothermal Update, Solar Corona Heating; Quickie with Cara: Radiation Eating Fungus; Who's Th…

The Skeptics Guide #1094 - Jun 27 2026 27 Jun 2026 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; Sc…

The Skeptics Guide #1093 - Jun 20 2026 20 Jun 2026 Guests George Hrab and Andrea Jones Rooy; SGU Down Under; News Items: Donut Lab Battery Follow up, Fungal Superhighway, Echochambers and Radicalization, Payam Method, Strength Tra…

The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026 13 Jun 2026 Quickie with Steve: Ebola Update; News Items: Ben Franklin's Anti-Counterfeiting Innovations, Mars Maven, Human Cooperation, Pre Cambrian Animal Senses, Peudoscience Protection Bi…

The Skeptics Guide #1091 - Jun 6 2026 6 Jun 2026 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 Aud…

The Skeptics Guide #1090 - May 30 2026 30 May 2026 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;…

The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026 23 May 2026 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 F…

The Skeptics Guide #1088 - May 16 2026 16 May 2026 News Items: The Interstitium and Acupuncture, Climate Change Food Insecurity, Neanderthal Dentistry, Tiny Robots, More UFO Nonsense; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails:…

The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026 9 May 2026 Interview with Philosopher David Kyle Johnson; Quickie with Bob: Exotic Matter; News Items: When Are Screening Tests Necessary, Dawkins Writes LLMs are Conscious, Iron Flow Batter…

The Skeptics Guide #1086 - May 2 2026 2 May 2026 Back to Basics: Pareidolia and Apophenia; News Items: Smart Watch Health Metric Errors, Space Debris Hitting the Moon, Evolvable AI, Merging Quazars, Longevity Escape Velocity; Wh…

The Skeptics Guide #1085 - Apr 25 2026 25 Apr 2026 What's the Word: Cryptomnesia; News Items: Belief in Unproven Health Claims, Regenerating Limbs, Suicide Hotline Seems to Work, Why is Rubber Strong; Who's That Noisy; Your Questi…

The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026 18 Apr 2026 News Items: Artemis Recap, AI Biology Research, AI Security Disruption, Superconductivity Breakthrough, Red Light Therapy; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mach, Miss…

The Skeptics Guide #1083 - Apr 11 2026 11 Apr 2026 Dumbest Thing of the Week: Waffle House Teleportation; News Items: Artemis II Heat Shield, Fairness in the Brain, Genetic Engineering Humans, Self-Healing Composite; Who's That No…

The Skeptics Guide #1082 - Apr 4 2026 4 Apr 2026 Quickie with Bob: Transporting Antimatter; News Items: Artemis II Launches, Can AI Predict Science Replication, Smart Drugs, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, Underwater Fairy Circles;…

The Skeptics Guide #1081 - Mar 28 2026 28 Mar 2026 Back To Basics: Confirmation Bias; News Items: NASA Announces New Moon Plans, The Limits of Cloning, Giant Insects, Pushing Exorcism, Update on 3I-Atlas; Who's That Noisy; Science…

The Skeptics Guide #1080 - Mar 21 2026 21 Mar 2026 Interview with Professor Kristian Andersen; Update on Conspiracy Teacher; News Items: Cannabis Review, AI Agents Breaks Out Of Testing Area, Life On Exomoons, Man Producing Carbon…

The Skeptics Guide #1079 - Mar 14 2026 14 Mar 2026 Back to Basics: Fundamental Attribution Error; News Items: Improved Photosynthesis, Birth of a Magnetar, US Bioweapons Research, False Health Information from Chatbots; Your Quest…