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The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

2026/04/18

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

The Skeptics Guide #1083 - Apr 11 2026

2026/04/11

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

The Skeptics Guide #1082 - Apr 4 2026

2026/04/04

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

The Skeptics Guide #1081 - Mar 28 2026

2026/03/28

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

The Skeptics Guide #1080 - Mar 21 2026

2026/03/21

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 #1079 - Mar 14 2026

2026/03/14

Back to Basics: Fundamental Attribution Error; News Items: Improved Photosynthesis, Birth of a Magnetar, US Bioweapons Research, False Health Information from Chatbots; Your Questions and E-mails: Consistency; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1078 - Mar 7 2026

2026/03/07

Quickie with Bob: Thatcher Effect; News Items: Lunar Chickpeas, Sea Level Rise, Latest Study Shows Reiki Does Not Work, Brain Cells Playing Doom; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Glyphosate Safety; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1077 - Feb 28 2026

2026/02/28

Swindler's List: Tax Fraud; News Items: Universal Nasal Respiratory Vaccine, Origins of COVID, Reusing Spent Nuclear Fuel, Birding Brain Boost; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Starting A Skeptical Group; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1076 - Feb 21 2026

2026/02/21

News Items: Banana Resistance to Fungal Disease, Drug Advertising, AI Powered Prosthetics, Laser Written Glass Storage, UFO Balloons; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Mental Illness and Culpability; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1075 - Feb 14 2026

2026/02/14

Quickie with Evan: Erich von Däniken dies at 90; News Items: Review of ADHD Treatment, Religious Nones, EPA Ends Endangerment Ruling, The Physics of the Quintuple Jump, Crotchgate; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: More on the yellow sun, The Turkey Illusion; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1074 - Feb 7 2026

2026/02/07

Quickie with Bob: The Death of 8k TV; News Items: Faith-Based Addiction Programs, Noise and Sleep, A Fully Renewable Grid, Moltbook for AI Agents Only; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1073 - Jan 31 2026

2026/01/31

News Items: Artemis Getting Ready for Launch, New Extinct Branch of Life, Why We Need Wikipedia, Ideological Bias in Research, Expanding the Habitable Zone; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Kesterite Solar Panels; From TikTok: Coincidence?; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1072 - Jan 24 2026

2026/01/24

What's the Word: Culture; News Items: Increasing Life Expectancy, AI 2027, Deep Reading, Spray on Wound Treatment, Monkeys and AI; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Global Warming Falsifiable; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1071 - Jan 17 2026

2026/01/17

News Items: Donut Lab's Solid State Battery, Artemis Update, EPA Change, Life on Planets Around Red Dwarfs, Malaysia Air Search Resumes; Special Report: RFK on Vaccines and the Food Pyramid; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Birding and Memory; Science or Fiction

The Skeptics Guide #1070 - Jan 10 2026

2026/01/10

Live From Not-A-Con 2025, with guests George Hrab, Andrea Jones-Rooy, Brian Wecht, and Adam Russell; What Are You Most Proud Of; What Is Your Quirky Pet Peeve; If You Could Change One Thing; Here Me Out; Science or Fiction

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4.7 out of 5

6182 reviews

YupOkay 2026/02/02

Love the Liberal

I love that they stand up for vaccines and intelligence. Love that they are smart liberals!!!!

That guy in the hat 2026/04/04

Still among the best podcasts out there, though slipping

When the hosts are on-subject, five stars. Sometimes when they’re off-subject, also five stars. But in the last few years I find myself hitting the sk...

Zbigniew Rusin 2026/03/27

What happened!

Disappointing Decline I’ve been listening to SGU for nearly 20 years, and unfortunately it’s clear the show is no longer what it used to be. What was ...

Mike Friebel 2025/11/23

Still the Best Science Podcast After 20 Years

I’ve listened to The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe since 2006, and it remains one of the very few podcasts I’ve never dropped. Few maintain such con...

NATECH 2026/01/23

Lost me

I was an avid listener until covid came and they got everything wrong and just spewed the big Pharma narrative. It was gross and has me questioning an...

It'sNotMe123 2026/01/15

USED TO BE GOOD

This used to be the BEST podcast and recommend listening to old episodes. Unfortunately, it has really gone down hill with its bias, that they preach ...

Sweavs97 2025/12/10

Egotistical arrogance

I was excited to try this podcast as somebody who is in a technical healthcare field and looking for informational listening material. Immediately upo...

Driftediron 2025/10/04

Great science

It’s a great science podcast, they do get a little to political at times though…

SteveDTNYC 2025/10/30

Great content, with 1 major issue

I have to say as much as I used to really enjoy this show, Cara’s vocal fry is absolutely so utterly grating and annoying I can’t even make it through...

mmmjjjmaria 2025/08/27

Done with this one

What used to be a skeptical review of scientific news is slowly starting to feel like neoliberal sanewashing of non-scientific topics, such as AI chat...

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