Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsOpening Radio and Podcast...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast shows and categories...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast episodes...
Listen to learn the real state of science behind astronomy-, physics-, and geology-related creationist claims, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, misconceptions, and bad or incomplete media report...
After being gone for a bit of time, I return to discuss where I have been, what to expect for the future (when more episodes will air), and...
In the final regular episode in the three-part Solar Eclipse of August 2017 series, several of the claims made by Richard Hoagland are addre...
An exploration into four groups of fine-tuning arguments used by some to say that we are special: Solar outbursts, habitable zone, lunar ori...
The August 2017 total solar eclipse was seen by hundreds of millions of people, and yet some of them have tried to use it to promulgate pseu...
The half-truth and misconception addressed in this episode is whether the age of a star with error bars that overlap with the age of the uni...
Three separate topics all tied together by a commonality: A little bit of something that you tend to only experience in space. First up is m...
The world did not end, again, on September 23, 2017. However, the story behind this latest doomsday prognostication may surprise you -- it d...
This past eclipse on August 21, 2017, was perhaps one of the most-hyped and most-viewed solar eclipses in human history. As with any such ma...
Young-Earth creationists who are not geocentrists - those who accept the Copernican Revolution so far as Earth's place in the universe - hav...
Inspired by one of the longest-running primetime television shows in history, and frustration with late-night radio hosts pretending they ca...
A return to a tried-and-true subject of skepticism: the Apollo Moon Hoax. In this shorter episode, I discuss two of the most common claims t...
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union sparked an uproar and furious debate among scientists and non-scientists alike when they voted...
In past episodes, I have talked about how you can't get any more information out of an image than what is in a single pixel. Dr. Tod Lauer i...
In a special cross-over episode, the cast of The Reality Check (Cheque?) podcast come over and we all did short-ish segments on astronomy-re...
The scientific method is the process through which most modern science is done. Whether done explicitly in its formalized steps or not, it u...
Magic mirror on the wall, when will reality shifts affect us all? A phenomenon known as the Mandela Effect has been making the rounds of par...
Impact craters form the basis of, or fit into the claimed evidence for, several different kinds of pseudoscientific claims. In this episode,...
Radiation is a mechanism for a large array of pseudosciences out there today, almost on par with quantum mechanics. The purpose of this epis...
This podcast show most often focuses on refuting pseudoscience with real science, but it rarely sets out to make a positive case for real sc...
Planet X is one of those topics that keeps coming up in pseudoscientific circles, in part because people who have been claiming it will come...
Moving away from the Earth-centric episodes since The Return of the podcast, this epsidoe addresses the concept of dark matter and claims th...
Flat Earth proponents have numerous claims that they use to promote the concept that Earth is flat. In this episode, we examine two of the c...
When a NASA press released announced that scientists had observed x-rays coming from Pluto, my knee-jerk reaction was that certain people wo...
After 139 episodes, a return to some of the claims that Earth is hollow, this time as presented by David Icke. An examination into how gravi...
Sometimes, things just get to you. A Planet X proponent who has been preaching catastrophe for years, keeps saying the doom will happen in a...
A beginning examination of some of the modern claims put forth by the very recent resurgeance of Flat Earth proponents. This episode focuses...
A ten-minute update and apology for delay in new episodes, and an announcement that the podcast is now officially on hiatus for another few...
A close examination of why astronomers claim that they know about things on the other side of the universe, but they can't figure out what's...
On July 7, 2015, one week before the New Horizons spacecraft made its closest approach to Pluto and Charon, I sat down with six other early...
From an ego standpoint, it's nice to get credit if you're the first to do something or figure something out. But from a scientific standpoin...
A conspiracy idea is that part of Nazi Germany propaganda was to redefine the musical standard for the world, moving it up in pitch from a s...
There are a lot of rumors going around that September 2015 is going to result in doom and gloom, with the destruction of financial markets,...
A look at many of the conspiracies related to the New Horizons mission through the Pluto-Charon system. This Part 2 episode focuses on anoma...
A look at many of the conspiracies related to the New Horizons mission through the Pluto-Charon system. This Part 1 episode focuses on some...
Most often when discussing the age of the Earth or the solar system, scientists refer to radiometric dating. In kind, young-Earth creationis...
I briefly spoke with two of the science journalists who are embedded within NASA's New Horizons team for the spacecraft's flyby of the Pluto...
I bring you an interview with Dr. John Spencer, head of the hazards search for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto, and co-deputy of the...
The Big Bang is the model that is used to explain what happened just after the origin of the universe. No more, and no less. But there are d...
Bob Lazar is often credited - at least in part - with re-energizing the UFO field in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Unfortunately for the f...
On May 24, 2015, I presented a live talk at the Denver ComicCon modeled after Leonard Nimoy's "In Search Of" televsision series. The session...
A lot of small threads are discussed in this episodes: The latest lunar eclipse and its relation to the Blood Moons phenomenon, the bright s...
Who can present at a scientific conference is often shrouded in mystery to non-scientists, and it is viewed as an Ivory Gate by pseudoscient...
Comet Hale-Bopp put on a fantastic display for Earth-bound skywatchers for over two years, often considered "the" comet of the 20th century....
Comet Hale-Bopp put on a fantastic display for Earth-bound skywatchers for over two years, often considered "the" comet of the 20th century....
Comet Hale-Bopp put on a fantastic display for Earth-bound skywatchers for over two years, often considered "the" comet of the 20th century....
The issue of funding in science is near and dear to my heart ... or, perhaps to my grocery, rent, and utility bills. Most people who are not...
Black holes seem like a given in popular culture: They exist, they have to, right? Well, some people claim they don't. In this episode, we g...
Measuring distance in every-day life requires some basic tools like a ruler. But who holds the other end when we want to measure the distanc...
Lingust, Dr. Karen Stollznow, discusses some of the communication problems on our own planet and how that translates to the huge potential p...
The Rosetta mission with a destination of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has faced numerous conspiracies circulating throughout the interne...