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

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20 episodes
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The Skeptics Guide #1099 - Aug 1 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 Megastructures, Ediacaran Sex; Interview with Michael Mann, Science or Fiction
July 25
The Skeptics Guide #1098 - Jul 25 2026
Live From Madison Wisconsin; Amending the Constitution; News Items: Believing in the Supernatural, Desalinating Water, Superheavy Cosmic Rays, AI Designed Bioweapons; Science or Fiction
July 18
The Skeptics Guide #1097 - Jul 18 2026
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
July 11
The Skeptics Guide #1096 - Jul 11 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 Method, SETI Partly Explains Fermi; Skeptical Philosophy; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
July 4
The Skeptics Guide #1095 - Jul 4 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 That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Responses to Evan; Science or Fiction
June 27
The Skeptics Guide #1094 - Jun 27 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; Science or Fiction
June 20
The Skeptics Guide #1093 - Jun 20 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 Training and Longevity; Who's That Noisy; ADIct game; Science or Fiction
June 13
The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026
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
June 6
The Skeptics Guide #1091 - Jun 6 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 Audio Cables; The Science of Survivor; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
May 30
The Skeptics Guide #1090 - May 30 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; Science or Fiction
May 23
The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 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 Fiction
May 16
The Skeptics Guide #1088 - May 16 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: AI Consciousness; Science or Fiction
May 9
The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 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 Batteries, Haunting with Friends; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
May 2
The Skeptics Guide #1086 - May 2 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; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Stem Cell Hype; Science or Fiction
April 25
The Skeptics Guide #1085 - Apr 25 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 Questions and E-mails: Mythos Follow Up, Americans' Knowledge of Mexico; Science or Fiction
April 18
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 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, Missing and Dead Scientists; Science or Fiction
April 11
The Skeptics Guide #1083 - Apr 11 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 Noisy; Science or Fiction
April 4
The Skeptics Guide #1082 - Apr 4 2026
Quickie with Bob: Transporting Antimatter; News Items: Artemis II Launches, Can AI Predict Science Replication, Smart Drugs, Nuclear Electric Propulsion, Underwater Fairy Circles; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
March 28
The Skeptics Guide #1081 - Mar 28 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 or Fiction
March 21
The Skeptics Guide #1080 - Mar 21 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 Fiber, Bigfoot Hoax Revealed; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

The Skeptics Guide #1099 - Aug 1 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1098 - Jul 25 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1097 - Jul 18 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1096 - Jul 11 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1095 - Jul 4 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1094 - Jun 27 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1093 - Jun 20 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1091 - Jun 6 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1090 - May 30 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1088 - May 16 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1086 - May 2 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1085 - Apr 25 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1083 - Apr 11 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1082 - Apr 4 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1081 - Mar 28 2026

The Skeptics Guide #1080 - Mar 21 2026