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The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is produced by SGU Productions, LLC - dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and the public understanding of science through online and other media. The first episode of the SGU podcast went online on May 4th, 2005. It soon became a popular science/skeptical podcast, and remains one of the most popular science podcasts on iTunes.

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341 Jan 28 2012   Show Notes
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Interview with Sean Carroll
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Stem Cells for Blindness, Chiropractic Neurology, Mass Psychogenic Illness
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Sounds in the Sky
Science or Fiction
340 Jan 21 2012   Show Notes
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Interview with Eugenie Scott
This Week in Skepticism
News Items: NECSS 2012, Photographic Black Holes, SOPA-PIPA, Homeopathic Burn Treatment, Ice Forms
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
339 Jan 14 2012   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Tricorder X-prize, Sheldrake on Presentiment, Physics Cranks, Witchhunter Comes to US
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
338 Jan 7 2012   Show Notes
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Interview with Martin Rundkvist
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Psychic Predictions 2011, Hacker Satellite, Testing Violins
Quickie with Bob - Lost World of Antarctica
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
337 Dec 31 2011   Show Notes
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SGU 2011 Year in Review
Special Guest Mike Lacelle
Best and Worst of 2011
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
336 Dec 24 2011   Show Notes
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Special Guests: George Hrab and Jamy Ian Swiss
Christopher Hitchens In Memoriam
News Items: Mammoth Bone Homes, Trillion Frames per Second, Neti Pot Dangers
Who's That Noisy
Special Report: Randomness
Science or Fiction
335 Dec 17 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Pro-Measles Children's Book, Higgs Update, Mercury UFO, Hallucinating Color
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Menstrual Syncing
Swindler's List: Online Dating
Science or Fiction
334 Dec 10 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Lawrence Krauss
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Trudeau Fine Upheld, Planetary Probes, Cloning a Mammoth, Kepler 22b
Who's That Noisy
Corrections
Science or Fiction
333 Dec 3 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with James Randi
News Items: Detecting Digital Manipulation, Curiosity Heads to Mars, Creationist Bill Defeated in NH, Scorpios Need Not Apply, Jetpack Flies with Jets
Special Report: Burzynski Clinic Intimidates Bloggers, with Rhys Morgan
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Tomato Juice Color
Science or Fiction
332 Nov 26 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism: JFK Assassination
News Items: Power Balance Bankruptcy, FTL Neutrino Follow Up, Does Water Prevent Dehydration, Food Color and Taste
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: SILLY Bias in Scientific Reviews
Science or Fiction
331 Nov 19 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Moon's Magnetic Field, Europa's Ice Surface, False Confessions
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: BMJ Poe, Catholic Pox Parties
Science or Fiction
330 Nov 12 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Stroke Turns Man Gay, Asteroid YU55, Pox Parties, US Government Denies UFOs, Man Confuses Moon for UFO, NASA's Orion Program
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Intercessory Prayer
Science or Fiction
329 Nov 5 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Climate Change Confirmation, Steve Job's Cancer, New GPS, Pre-Clovis Find
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Brush Before or After
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
328 Oct 29 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Banachek
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Seeing Through Walls, Malaria Vaccine, Luckiest Cities, New Name for VLA, Another Failed Prediction
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
327 Oct 22 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Richard Wiseman
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Jay Report from Italy, Faster Than Light Neutrinos, Reiki Doesn't Work, Ending Genital Cutting, Camping Prophesy Update
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
326 Oct 15 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde
This day in Skepticism
News Items: Vitamins and Mortality, Megavirus, NDEs, More UFOs, Electrosense, Airborne Petition
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
325 Oct 8 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Steve Jobs Dies, Nobel Prizes 2011 for Physics, Medicine, and Chemistry, IgNobels for 2011
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
324 Oct 1 2011   Show Notes
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Highlights from the SGU 24 Live Streaming event
Interview with Australian Skeptics: Richard Saunders, Dr. Rachie Dunlop, Jo Benhamu
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Grail Craft Launch, A. sediba, Adaptation and Orgasm
Special Report: Siphonomores
Top 10 Future Technologies
Science or Fiction
323 Sep 24 2011   Show Notes
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Special Guests: George Hrab and Brian Brushwood
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Single Molecule Electric Motor, Registering Atheists
Special Report: Nature vs Nurture
Science or Fiction
322 Sep 17 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Sara Mayhew
This Day in Skepticism
New Items: Chinese Scientists Plan to Capture Asteroid, Acupuncture and Acoustic Waves
Science or Fiction
321 Sep 10 2011   Show Notes
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Live from DragonCon 2011
This Day in Skepticism: 9-11 Comic
News Items: Diamond Planet, Homeopathic Water, Woolly Rhino, Editor Resigns of Global Warming Paper
Science or Fiction
Live Q&A
320 Aug 29 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Jad Abumrad
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Hurricane Irene, ISS Threatened, LHC and Super Symmetry, Alien Signals
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Tin Foil, Skeptical Shout-Out
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
319 Aug 24 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Virginia Earthquake, Brand Loyalty
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Tin Foil and RFID
Swindler's List: Functional Medicine
Science or Fiction
318 Aug 17 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Paul Provenza
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Non-Growing Earth, Boiron Threatens Blogger, Woman Romance and Science, Space X Going to the Space Station
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: More on Helium
Science or Fiction
317 Aug 10 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Anti-Matter in Space, 3D Brain Mapping, Time Shift, 4-Time Lottery Winner
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Robert Johnson
Science or Fiction
316 Aug 3 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Elizabeth Loftus
This Day in Skepticism - Life on Mars
News Items: The 27 Club, Blood-Red Lake, Earth Trojan Asteroid, Radioactive Heat
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: If It Can't Be Measured
Science or Fiction
315 Jul 27 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Bill Nye
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Skeptical Conferences, Victory for Evolution in Texas, New Moon for Pluto, Life in the Universe, Connecticut Chupacabra
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
314 Jul 20 2011   Show Notes
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Live from TAM9
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Comet Elenin, Forces of Darkness, Science Proves the Bible (Not), Last Shuttle Launch, Pastafarian Headgear, Organic Water, Graphene Water Battery, Youngest Dinosaur Fossil
Live Q&A: Skeptical Wins, 24 Hour Live SGU Show, Reconciling Faith and Skepticism, Craniosacral Therapy, Favorite Science Jokes, Sam Harris, How SGU Started
Science or Fiction
313 Jul 13 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Matthew Chapman
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Hypnotized to Death, Color of Extinct Birds, Magnetic Microprocessors, Twintuition
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mail: Creationist Arguments
Science or Fiction
312 Jul 5 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Classifying Galaxies, More Pareidolia, Easter Island Elixir, Driverless Cars, Elevatorgate
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
311 Jun 29 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Eugenie Scott
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Tau Day, Body Temperature of Dinosaurs Measured, Magnets and Blood Flow, Guru in Sweat Lodge Death Convicted, Close Call for the Space Station
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
310 Jun 22 2011   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: Michael Waterhouse
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: We Are All Mutants, Human Gecko, Creationists Infiltrate Geology Meeting, Battery Man
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
309 Jun 13 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Two New Elements, The Decline Effect, Zicam Inventor Arrested, Lasers from Human Cells, Mood Ears
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: The Enemy Within
Science or Fiction
308 Jun 8 2011   Show Notes
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Special Guest: Phil Plait
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: SGU-24, Psychic Tip, Explosion on Sun, Moon Origin, UFO Nazis
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
307 May 31 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Jamie Bernstein
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Predicting Earthquakes; Mapping the Brain; Implanting Memories
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
306 May 25 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Rapture Rationalizations, Fake Moon Rock, Dark Energy Confirmed, Religious Right vs Women's Rights, Preparing for a Zombie Apocalypse
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Banning Marmite
Science or Fiction
305 May 18 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with James Randi
This Week in Skepticism
News Items: Rapture, Another Cancer Cure, Gut Bacteria and Behavior, Habitable Exoplanet, Higgs False Alarm
Who's That Noisy
Swindlers List: Bidsell
Science or Fiction
304 May 9 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Jon Ronson
This Week in Skepticism
News Items: Einstein Right Again, Mark Geier's License Suspended, Moon Microbe Mystery, Steytlerville Monster
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Yap Money
Science or Fiction
303 May 4 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Science and Skepticism
News Items: Six year of SGU, Easter Island Controversy,Bin Laden Conspiracies, Touched by a Robot
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails
Science or Fiction
302 Apr 27 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Seth Shostak
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: A Skeptic in Oz, More Creationism in Texas, Higgs Rumor
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
301 Apr 20 2011   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: Iszi Lawrence
This Week in Skepticism
News Items: Hottel UFO Document, New Method to find Exoplanets, Plans for NASA Shuttles, Power Balance Lawsuit, Nails of Christ
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
300 Apr 9 2011   Show Notes
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SGU Live from NECSS 2011
Special Guest Rogue: John Rennie
News Items: Gayveman, Cosmic Engineering, Homeopathy for Radiation and Vertigo, Evidence and Radiation Risk
You Know You're a Skeptic If
Science or Fiction
Live Q&A: Time Travel, Fecal Transplants, Skeptical Obligation
299 Apr 4 2011   Show Notes
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This Day in Skepticism: The Mercury 7
News Items: Pioneer Anomaly Solved, Pigasus Awards, Wakefield and Somalis, Boy Genius
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Thorium Reactors
Science or Fiction
298 Mar 30 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Kenny Feder
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Colorado UFO, Breaking Heisenberg, Dinosaur Petroglyph
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Dinosaur Taxonomy
Science or Fiction
297 Mar 24 2011   Show Notes
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This Week in Skepticism: Hale Bop Cult
News Items: Meier Earthquake Non-prediction, Swarm Robots, Sexual Preference, Pre-biotic Chemistry, Science fact vs fiction
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Radiation Hormesis, Overunity, Fecal Transplants
Science or Fiction
296 Mar 16 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Mark Mervine
This Week in Skepticism
News Items: Japan Earthquake, Time Traveling Particle, Finding Atlantis, TAM9 From Outer Space
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections - Magellan and DNA Computing, Ambit Energy
Science or Fiction
295 Mar 9 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Ben Radford
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Meteorite Bacteria, Biological Computers, Super Full Moon, Imam Retracts Support for Evolution
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Definition of Skeptic
Science or Fiction
294 Mar 2 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Eric-Jan Wagenmakers
This Day in Skepticism: Limelight
News Items: Predicting Earthquakes, Growing Fuel, Neutron Star Superflluidity, Heidi Follow up
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Information Follow up, 10,000 Years in the Future
Science or Fiction
293 Feb 23 2011   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: Joshie Berger
This Day in Skepticism: Galileo Censored
News Items: Internet Kill Switch, Japan to Trawl for Space Junk, Watson on Jeopardy!, Lie to Me
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Lost Information
Science or Fiction
292 Feb 16 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Kevin Folta
News Items: Jovian in the Outer Solar System, Haunted Theme Park Ride, Heidi the Cross-eyed Psychic Opossum
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Product Reviews
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
291 Feb 9 2011   Show Notes
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Interview with Jeff Ainslee
News Items: Processed Food and IQ, Bacterial Intelligence, Skin Cell Spray Gun, Treating Trauma with Herbs, Jerusalem UFO
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
290 Jan 31 2011   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: Dr. Ray Greek - The Science of Animal Models
This Day in Skepticism
News Items: Homeopathy Pseudoscience, Teachers Cautious about Evolution
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Countering Fallacies
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
289 Jan 26 2011   Show Notes
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News Items: Jack LaLanne dies at 96, Cold Fusion Again, The Cochrane Review of Statins, Astrologists Angered, More on Education
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Alien DNA
Science or Fiction
288 Jan 19 2011   Show Notes
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News Items: No Ghosts in my Backyard, Simulating Earth, Reaction to Bem's Psi Research, Engineered Chickens, Cloning Mammoths
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Sun as Battery, Land Sharks
Science or Fiction
287 Jan 12 2011   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: Phil Plait
News Items: Molten Exoplanet, BMJ Slams Wakefield, Creationist Teacher Fired, Galactic Black Holes
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Nassim Haramein
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
286 Jan 5 2011   Show Notes
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Predictions 2010 and 2011
News Items: Mysterious Bird Deaths, Predictions from 1931, Mars News in 2010, Apocalypse 2011, Printing Solar Cells
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Thomas Kuhn
Science or Fiction
285 Dec 29 2010   Show Notes
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2010 Year in Review
Best and Worst of 2010
In Memoriam
SGU Stats
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
284 Dec 22 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Arsenic-Based Life, Buttology, V-Steam, Singing Mice, The Real daVinci Code
Who's That Noisy
Special Report: Power Bands with James Randi and the SkepticBros
Science or Fiction
283 Dec 15 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Dan Gardner
News Items: Piltdown Anniversary, Hydrogen Production, Voyager Leaves Solar System, Slushball Earth
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Alien Plants vs Animals
Science or Fiction
282 Dec 8 2010   Show Notes
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SGU Live in Sydney Australia
News Items: New Crystal Skull, Roger Penrose Before the Big Bang, Chimps Outwit Human Traps, Anti-Antivax Activism
Special Report: Masonic Conspiracy Theories
Science or Fiction
Live Q&A: Scientists Baffled, Size of Quantum Effects, Sympathectomy, Future of Skepticism, Pseudo-Experts
281 Dec 1 2010   Show Notes
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SGU Live in Vancouver with Special Guest: George Hrab
News Items: SETI 50th Anniversary, Antimatter Breakthrough, Nanoparticles and Glowing Trees, Oprah Promotes Psychic Surgeon, Latest PSI Research, Bending Time and Space
Live Q&A: Neurology of Belief, Coincidence, Multi-Level Marketing
Science or Fiction with Special Guest Fraser Cain
280 Nov 24 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guest: Richard Saunders
News Items: Eken Power Bands
Your Questions and E-mails: Frozen Stiff, Cockroach Brains, Deal or No Deal
Name That Logical Fallacy: Argument from Silence
Special Topic: Religious Skeptics
Science or Fiction
279 Nov 15 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with D.J. Grothe
News Items: NASA Discovers Mysterious Bubbles, Exploiting "Psychic" Kids, More Homeopathy Spin
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Lunar Weather Predicting, Caffeine and Sperm Count
Science or Fiction
278 Nov 10 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Carl Sagan Day, Mystery Missile, LHC Big Bang, The Twinkie Diet, Hamburger Experiments Redux
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Spinning Spaceship, Ear Light
Science or Fiction
277 Nov 3 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss
News Items: Psychic Cat, 100 Year Starship Project, Cure for Common Cold, Life on the Moon, Alien Ballot Defeated
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Banana Ripening
Science or Fiction
276 Oct 27 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Ghosts Calling Cellphones, Hawking Radiation, More On Radioactive Decay Rates, The Science of Medicine, NECSS 2011, Physics.org Award Nomination
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Time Traveling Cell Phone User
Interview with SGU Forums Moderators
Science or Fiction
275 Oct 19 2010   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: Brian Trent
News Items: Benoit Mandlebrot 1924-2010, Stem Cell Funding, Do Mummies Get Cancer, Asteroids Buzz Earth
Your Questions and E-mails: Whale Poop Correction, T-Rex Blood Cells, Help - My Friend is a Pseudoscientist
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
274 Oct 13 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Ben Goldacre
News Items: Dark Matter Strangeness, Vaccine Case in Supreme Court, Gliese 581g Follow Up
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Magic Burgers
Science or Fiction
273 Oct 6 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: 2010 Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and Physics, 2010 IgNobels, Diesel from a Stone
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Mass and Gravity, Science Education, Laughing Hyenas
Science or Fiction
272 Sep 30 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Bug Girl
News Items: New Moonlanding Footage, UN Alien Ambassador, Poor Science Education, New Force of Nature?, Goldilocks Planet
Who's That Noisy
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
271 Sep 22 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Simon Singh
News Items: Losing Your Religion, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Dirty Electricity, Origins of Moons, Halfalogue
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
270 Sep 15 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Ben Radford, Joe Nickell, and Karen Stollznow
News Items: Modern Geocentrism, Irish Minister of Science Scandal, Robot Skin, No Link between Thimerosal and Autism, Canadian Government Muzzles Scientists, Crop Circle Sting
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
269 Sep 8 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Carol Tavris
News Items: Stephen Hawking on God, Magnetic Mom, Organic Strawberries, Burning the Quran, Pyschic Incites Mob
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
268 Sep 1 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Donald Prothero
News Items: Thorium Power, Impacts and Extinction, Spontaneous Combustion, Enfield Poltergeist, Ghost Train
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Mitochondrial Eve Follow Up
Science or Fiction
267 Aug 25 2010   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: Phil Plait
News Items: Phil Plait's Bad Universe, Solar Flares and Radioactive Decay, Competition in Evolution, The Science of Zombies, Kurzweil Responds to Myers, Kaku on UFOs
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
266 Aug 19 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Bruce Hood
News Items: Banning Wi-Fi, Psychic Finds Wrong Body, Kurzweil on Brain Complexity, Magnetars and Black Holes
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
265 Aug 11 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Aubrey de Grey
News Items: Evolving Simulated Intelligence, Proximal Intercessory Prayer, Bermuda Triangle Solved, Booty Enhancement Spell, Censoring Skepticism featuring Interview with Rhys Morgan
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
264 Aug 4 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: DIY Genetic Testing, Coronal Mass Ejection, More Evidence for Warming, Analyzing the Future, Misfortune Teller
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: More on Dieting
Science or Fiction
263 Jul 29 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Jim Underdown
News Items: Homeopathy in the UK, Cosmology with no Big Bang, Ghost Ship, Meat and Weight Control
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Biodynamic Farming, Orgel's Laws
Science or Fiction
262 Jul 21 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Randi & Banachek
News Items: Report from TAM8, Monster Star, Anti-Vax in Oz, Kabbalah Bracelet, Monkey Fossil, Monkeys in the Pants, Libel Tourism Bill
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
261 Jul 10 2010   Show Notes
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Live Recording from TAM8
News Items: Roswell Remembered, Nuclear Explosion in Space, Pepsigate, Energy Vampires, Gravitons and Black Holes, Obesity and Inactivity, Climategate Update, Planck Image of the Universe
Live Q&A: NESS Activities, Do Skeptics Ever Win?, Positive Attitude and Healing, Science of Love, SGU Editing, Art in Skepticism, True Believer Interviews, Live Million Dollar Challenge
Science or Fiction
260 Jun 30 2010   Show Notes
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Guest Rogue: George Hrab
News Items: Fin to Limb Evolution, Pat Boone on Laws of Physics, Ice Patch Archaeology, Stephen Barrett Sued
Your Questions and E-mails: Flag Worship
Science or Fiction
259 Jun 28 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Whooping Cough Epidemic, Whaling Film Questioned, Superconductor Roadblock, Call to Ban Homeopathy
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Orbital Periods, Sunscreen
Science or Fiction
258 Jun 16 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Sanal Edamaruku
News Items: Growing Livers, Immortal Jelly, Gay Clinic, Space Storm Warning
Science or Fiction
257 Jun 14 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Hayabusa Returns, Einstein's Brain, Largest Radio Telescope Array, Amityville Horror House for Sale
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Cursed Cell Phone Number, Soy, Magic Bee Juice
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
256 Jun 9 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Steve Matheson
News Items: Life on Titan, Vulture Threatened by Pseudoscience, WHO and H1N1
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Orbit of Phobos
Science or Fiction
255 Jun 2 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guests: Fraser Cain and Pamela Gay
News Items: X-37b Space Plane, Synthetic Bacteria, Hollow Phobos, Acupuncture Mechanism?, Guatemala Sinkhole
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Salt Substitute
Science or Fiction
254 May 26 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with James Randi about Martin Gardner
News Items: Energy of Early Life, End for Mars Phoenix Lander and Atlantis, Vaccine Safety, Accepting Science, Exonerated by Acupuncture
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
253 May 19 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Cell Phone Cancer Update, Why Does Matter Exist, Applied Kinesiology, BMA Trashes Homeopathy, Early Bird Feathers, Ball Lightening, Pesticides and ADHD
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
252 May 12 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guest: Massimo Pigliucci
News Items: Nonsense on Stilts, Definition of Siphon, Neanderthal Interbreeding, Evolution in Alabama Politics, Science of Morality
Who's That Noisy
Science or Fiction
251 May 5 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: 5 Years of SGU, Zettabytes, Prayer and Critical Thinking, Oil Spill Conspiracy, Life on Mars - Not, How to Build a Time Machine, Man Claims 70 Years Without Food or Water
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Croatian Girl Follow up
Science or Fiction
250 Apr 28 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Dr. Dean Edell
News Items: 20 Years of Hubble, Nanodots, Boobquake, Stephen Hawking on Aliens, Noah's Ark
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Intelligence and Science
Science or Fiction
249 Apr 17 2010   Show Notes
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Live from NECSS 2010, with Special Guest: James Randi
Items: Volcano in Iceland, Near Death Experiences, Sound Bullets, Injured by Price Scanner, Singh Libel Suit dropped, Two Moms and a Dad, Girl Speaks German After Coma
Science or Fiction
Live Questions
248 Apr 13 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Seth Shostak
News Items: Apollo 13, Water on Mars, Bioprinting, Scientific Literacy in the US, Dawkins vs The Pope
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Colour Therapy
Science or Fiction
247 Apr 7 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Area 51 Declassified, Ununseptium, SBM visits NCCAM, Copper Magnetic Jesus Bracelet
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Human Population, Dutch Psychic Follow up
Name That Logical Fallacy: The Genetic Fallacy
Science or Fiction
246 Mar 31 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guest: Eugenie Scott
News Items: Update from the NCSE, Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticles, Prison Psychics, Changing Morality with Magnets
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptics and Atheists
Science or Fiction
245 Mar 25 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with George Hrab
News Items: Rise of the Dinosaurs, Woman X, Starchild Update
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Evangelical Listeners
Name That Logical Fallacy
Science or Fiction
244 Mar 18 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Greg Grunberg
News Items: When Homeopaths Attack, Texas Textbook Hubbub, Bacterial Fingerprint, Chief Exorcist, Biggest Quantum State
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Power Balance
Science or Fiction
243 Mar 11 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Jenny on Huffpo, Autistic Pets, See-through Pain, Homeschooling and Evolution, Here's Your Jetpack, Spirits in a Bottle
Who's That Noisy
Your Questions and E-mails: Richter Scale, Raining Fish Follow Up, Inner Space
Science or Fiction
242 Mar 3 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guest: James Randi
News Items: Chile Earthquake, Darwinius Revisited, Raining Fish, Acupuncture for Depression, Haunted Hotels
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Your Questions and E-mails: Contrarion vs Skeptic, Personality Tests
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241 Feb 24 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Daniel Wilson
News Items: Homeopathy Smackdown in UK, What Darwin Got Wrong, The Bloom Box, Geller Aids Cops
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240 Feb 17 2010   Show Notes
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News Items: Rom Houben Update, Solar Energy Breakthrough, Psychic Killed
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Your Questions and E-mails: Gas from Carbon, Thomas Paine, Knocked Out
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239 Feb 10 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guest: Brian Dunning
News Items: Enceladus Update, Synthetic Organisms, Spray On Glass, Gasoline from Carbon, Oral Conception
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Name That Logical Fallacy: False Analogy
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238 Feb 3 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Simon Conway Morris
News Items: Fusion Breakthrough, Andrew Wakefield Rebuked, Return of Death Cat
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Your Questions and E-mails: Lady Gaga Illuminati
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237 Jan 27 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guest: Daniel Loxton
News Items: Book Release: Evolution, Dowsing for Bombs, Alien Life on Earth, Ginger Dinosaurs, I have Lizards in my Pants
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Your Questions and E-mails: Addiction
Name That Logical Fallacy
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236 Jan 20 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with Jon Rosenberg
News Items: Dead Bodies, Blond Warrior Princesses, Trees on Mars
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Your Questions and E-mails: Correactology, Ayn Rand
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235 Jan 13 2010   Show Notes
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Special Guest: Richard Saunders
News Items: TAM Australia, Tetrapod Footprints, Airport Security - with Bruce Schneier, Nearby Supernova, Cancer Miracle
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Your Questions and E-mails: Evil Skeptics
Name That Logical Fallacy
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234 Nov 15 2009   Show Notes
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Special Report: H1N1 Flu Pandemic Update - With Steven Novella, David Gorski, Mark Crislip and Joe Albietz
233 Jan 6 2010   Show Notes
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Interview with D. J. Grothe
News items: Predictions for 2009 and 2010, The G-Spot Controversy, New Stellar Companion
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Your E-mails and Questions: Brain Capacity
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232 Jan 1 2010   Show Notes
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2009 Year in Review - with Special Guests Phil Plait and Mike Lacelle
SGU and Science News of 2009
Science and Skepticism in the Last Decade
Science or Fiction Stats
SGU in 2010
231 Dec 21 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Michael Specter
News Items: Dark Matter WIMPS, Synaesthesia
Your Questions and E-mails: The Future of Skepticism, LHC Risk with Brian Cox
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230 Dec 16 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Steorn Still At It, Computer-Brain Interface, Ancient Ruins in the Caribbean, Octopus Coconuts, Homeopathic Suicide
Your E-mails and Questions: Holodeck Food
Special Report: Coalition for Libel Reform
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229 Dec 9 2009   Show Notes
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News Items - With Special Guest Phil Plait: Denver Aliens, Bird Speciation, Blinded by Faith, Spiral over Norway, Uranus Tilt, Methane on Mars
Your Questions and E-mails: Homeopathy Ads
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228 Dec 2 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Steven Thoms
News Items: Age of Autism Scandal, Porkenstein, Fat Murder Hoax
Your Questions and E-mails: ClimateGate Feedback
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227 Nov 25 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: LHC Online, Coma and Facilitated Communication, ClimateGate, CrocoDuck
Your Questions and E-mails: Speaking in Tongues
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226 Nov 18 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Kenny Feder
News Items: New Mammography Guidelines, Water on the Moon, Dark Flow, Lee Harvey Oswald Photo, Movie Reviews
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225 Nov 11 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Psychic Finds Skeleton, Dystonia Flu Shot Follow Up, More LRO Images, Paying for Prayer
Your Questions and E-mails: Wave Particle Duality
JREF Announcements
Special Report from TAM London with Simon Singh, Jon Ronson, and Adam Savage
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224 Nov 4 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Carl Sagan Day, Nutt Job, Dystonia after Flu Shot, Spontaneous Human Combustion Case
Interview with Michael Goldstein - starting a local skeptical group
Rebecca reports from TAM London with Phil Plait, Chris French, and Christina Martin
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223 Oct 28 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Swine Flu Scams, Hulda Clark Died of Cancer, The Physics of Homeopathy, Scientology Trouble, Suzanne Somers Cancer Quackery
Your Questions and E-mails: Size of the Universe (With Special Guest - Pamela Gay), Mad Scientists, Suspended Animation
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222 Oct 21 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with James Randi
News Items: LHC Future Attack, Magnetic and Copper Bracelets
Balloon Boy
Lunar Plume Update
Giant Spider
Special Report: Rebecca from Bangkok
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221 Oct 14 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Jack Horner
News Items: NASA Shoots the Moon, Saturn's Rings, Hypno Cat, Simon Singh Update
Your Questions and E-mails: Plasma Rocket, This Man
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220 Oct 7 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Daniel Hooper
News Items: Premanand In Memoriam, Nobel Prizes 2009, Ardipithecus Ramidis, Autism Prevalence
Interview with Brian Cox
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219 Sep 28 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Mark Edward
News Items: Premanand Statement, Dinosaur News, Nanotube Springs, Cameron and Comfort on Darwin, Couple Jailed over Homeopathy Death
Your Questions and E-mails: Spiritual Advice, Life Signs, Speed of Light
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218 Sep 23 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Michael Vassar
News Items: Raptor Rex, Bill Maher Antiscience, Panama Monster
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217 Sep 12 2009   Show Notes
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Live from NECSS with Special Guest Richard Wiseman
News Items: Charlie Sheen 911 Truther, Quantum Amnesia, Hulda Clark Dead, Gonzalez Therapy Fail, What's in Your Wallet, Exomoons, Great Tits Eat Bats
Special Report: The Yale Study
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Live QA
216 Sep 9 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Live from DragonCon 2009, Google UFO, Mongolian Death Worm, Chupacabra in Texas, Magnetic Monopole
Live Q&A
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215 Sep 1 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Adam Savage
News Items: Multitasking, Methane Fog on Titan, Google Nessie, Evolving Mice
Your Questions and E-mails: Appendix, iPhone Crap App
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214 Aug 25 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Jamy Ian Swiss
News Items: Surviving a Cataclysm, Zombie Apocalypse, WHO Says No to Homeopathy,Itako Fading, Dinochicken
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213 Aug 18 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Battery Update, Super Planetary Nebulae, Adopt a Star, UFO Spikes
Your Questions and E-mails: Aquatic Ape, Caffeine Tolerance
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212 Aug 12 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Michael Goudeau
News Items: Kepler Goes Online, Methane on Mars, MS Breakthrough, Placebo Medicine
Your Questions and E-mails: Birthers
Name That Logical Fallacy: Homeopathy Nonsense
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211 Aug 4 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Skepchick Carrie Iwan
News Items: Teeth from Stem Cells, Stem Cell Clinic Raid, Laser Propulsion, Update on Simon Singh
Your E-mails and Questions: Origin of Matter, 4-minute Interval Training
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210 Jul 29 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Jennifer Ouellette
News Items: Oldest Animal Fossils, New State of Matter, FDA Say Mercury Amalgam Safe, Past Life Hypnotism, Stressful Sweat
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209 Jul 22 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with DJ Grothe
News Items: 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, Copernicium, Thomas Jefferson and Evolution
Your Questions and E-mail: Dowsing
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208 Jul 11 2009   Show Notes
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Live Recording from TAM 7
News Items: Microbot Plumbers, Archeological Dig, Sunspots Return, Blogs vs Journalists, Genie Sued
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Live Questions
Rebecca's Wedding
207 Jul 1 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Phil Plait
News Items: Steorn Fail, BCA Responds to Singh, Salt Water in Enceladus, Uranium on the Moon, Apollo 11 Video, Impact Bad Astronomy
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Whos That Noisy
206 Jun 18 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Richard Prum
News Items: Ancient Lakes on Mars, Smoke Ring UFO, FDA Zicam Warning, Missing Sun Spots
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Whos That Noisy
205 Jun 16 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Brian Brushwood
News Items: Junior Supernova, Boy Hit By Meteor, A New Heuristic, Planetary Life
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204 Jun 11 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Richard Wiseman
News Items: Negative CAM Research, Chiropractors In Retreat, Quantum Mechanics, Flu Pandemic Update
Your questions and E-mails: Youngest Skeptic, Prescient Genes
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203 Jun 9 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Bruce Hood
News Items: Crop Circles 2009, Chronic Lyme Disease, Casino Feng Shui, UFO follow up
Your Questions and E-mails: Liver Flush for Gallstones
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202 Jun 3 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Simon Singh
News Items: Newsweek vs Oprah, Volcanic Extinction, UFO News, Texas Update
Your Questions and E-mails: Evangelical Skeptics, Begging the Question
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201 May 27 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Phil Plait
News Items: Whooping Cough Increase, Scientology on Trial, RNA World, Rook Tool Use, Northeast Skeptical Conference
Your Questions and E-mails: Polonium Halos
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200 May 20 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: SGU 200th Episode, Missing Link Ida, GPS Failure, Stem Cell Quackery in China
Your Questions and E-mails: Candiru, If I Had a Million Dollars
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199 May 13 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Rusty Schweickart
News Items: Simon Singh's Lawsuit, Ultradense Deuterium, Acupuncture Science, Last Fix for Hubble
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198 May 7 2009   Show Notes
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Interview With Rachael Dunlop
News Items: Four Years of SGU; Oprah Signs Jenny McCarthy; Dark Matter; Six Degrees of Separation; Homeopathy Death
Your Questions and E-mails: I Have Birds in my Pants
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197 Apr 30 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Mark Crislip
News Items: Hidden Photons, Walking Seal, NASA and the Moon, Baby Chupacabras
Your Questions and E-mails: Hoagland on Iapetus
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196 Apr 22 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Seth Shostak
News Items: Cassini Pictures, Smallest Exoplanet, Huffington Post Pseudoscience, Personal Attacks from Age of Autism, Kelloggs Settles FTC Suit
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195 Apr 15 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: John Maddox Dies, The Hand of God, Flying Microbots, Darwin Awards, Homeopathy Nonsense, Belief in Ghosts
Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Induction in Science
Randi Speaks
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194 Apr 8 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Daniel Loxton
News Items: Dennis Lee Strikes Again, Computers That Do Science
Your Questions and E-mails: Home Energy Scam
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193 Apr 1 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Paul Murray
News Items: Mind Controlled Robot, Giant Protozoan, More Jenny McCarthy Nonsense
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192 Mar 25 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Cold Fusion Again, Evolution Education in Texas, Synthetic Blood
Questions and E-mails: Richard Saunders Open Letter to Pharmacists, Quantum Jumping, Super Chimney
Name That Logical Fallacy
Randi Speaks
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191 Mar 18 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Phil Plait
News Items: Pope on HIV and Condoms, 20th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, Canada Science Minister and Evolution
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190 Mar 12 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Kenneth Miller
News Items: Stem Cell Ban Lifted, When Chimps Attack, Mellow Yellow, Prince Charles Snake Oil
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189 Mar 4 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Kenny Feder - Clovis Find
News Items: Vaccine Decision, Designer Babies, Riversnake Update, TAM7 Info
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188 Feb 26 2009   Show Notes
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News Items: Virtual Snowflakes, Evolution of Sex, Revenge of Titanoboa, Google Atlantis, Catboy
Your Questions and E-mails: Missing Moon, Moon and Sun
Randi Speaks
Whos That Noisy
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187 Feb 11 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Angie McQuaig
News Items: The Pose and Darwin, Ben Goldacre vs the Media, Healing Laser
Your Questions and E-mail: Starseeds, the eHolster
Randi Speaks
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186 Feb 9 2009   Show Notes
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Interview with Jon Ronson
News Items: Wakefield Fraud, Wearable Computer, Amish Fireplace, LHC Delay
Your Questions and E-mails: Blood Type Follow Up, China Spacewalk Hoax
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185 Feb 4 2009   Show Notes
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