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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.
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Interview with Brian Wecht: The Mathpocalypse; News Items: Does AI Have Feelings, CDC Hep B Vaccine Guidance, Potassium Enriched Salt for High Blood Pressure; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Interview with Andrea Jones Rooy on the Election; News Items: Red Flags for Bad Journals, Comets and the Origin of Life, Schooling and Dementia, Trapping Antimatter; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: CT Haunting; Science or Fiction
Guest Rogue: Alice Howarth; What's the Word: Centripetal-Centrifugal; News Items: Christina Applegate's MS Diagnosis, Ultraprocessed Food and Cancer Risk, Superworms Clean Skeletons, Goodbye Leap Second, Wellness and Hyperoptimization; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Flu Season; News Items: Future Forests, Carbon Nanotube Product, Rethinking Normal, Smart Clothing; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Your Questions and E-mails: Lab Leak Theory; Science or Fiction
AI Update; News Items: 2026 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry, Reading Fiction; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Sleep and Consciousness; Science or Fiction
Special Guests: Christian Hubicki and Julia Novella; Designing Your Dream Costume; Conspiracy Theories; News Items: Stellar Streams and Dark Matter, Possible Cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, IgNobels 2026, Pet Bird Research, Speedrunning Video Games; Science or Fiction
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 Grants, NYT Shills for Fake Psychics; Who's That Noisy; Name That Logical Fallacy; Science or Fiction
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
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