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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Published by Dr. Steven Novella

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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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5 chart placements

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  1. Number 19ScienceAustralia
  2. Number 17ScienceCanada
  3. Number 47ScienceUnited Kingdom
  4. Number 28ScienceNorway
  5. Number 30ScienceUnited States

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Recent episodes

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  1. The Skeptics Guide #1105 - Sep 12 2026

    Sep 12, 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

  2. The Skeptics Guide #1104 - Sep 5 2026

    Sep 5, 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 Segway, Going to Mars; Science or Fiction

  3. The Skeptics Guide #1103 - Aug 29 2026

    Aug 27, 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 and E-mails: Peptides vs Proteins, Stellarator; Science or Fiction

  4. The Skeptics Guide #1102 - Aug 22 2026

    Aug 22, 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 Diversity; Science or Fiction

  5. The Skeptics Guide #1101 - Aug 15 2026

    Aug 15, 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 Old Remedy; Science or Fiction

  6. The Skeptics Guide #1100 - Aug 8 2026

    Aug 8, 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 Community, Terraforming Mars, Fauci Under Fire, AI Satellites, AI Solves 90 Year Math Puzzle; Science or Fiction

  7. The Skeptics Guide #1099 - Aug 1 2026

    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

  8. The Skeptics Guide #1098 - Jul 25 2026

    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

  9. The Skeptics Guide #1097 - Jul 18 2026

    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

  10. The Skeptics Guide #1096 - Jul 11 2026

    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

  11. The Skeptics Guide #1095 - Jul 4 2026

    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

  12. The Skeptics Guide #1094 - Jun 27 2026

    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

  13. The Skeptics Guide #1093 - Jun 20 2026

    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

  14. The Skeptics Guide #1092 - Jun 13 2026

    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

  15. The Skeptics Guide #1091 - Jun 6 2026

    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

  16. The Skeptics Guide #1090 - May 30 2026

    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

  17. The Skeptics Guide #1089 - May 23 2026

    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

  18. The Skeptics Guide #1088 - May 16 2026

    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

  19. The Skeptics Guide #1087 - May 9 2026

    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

  20. The Skeptics Guide #1086 - May 2 2026

    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

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