Episode 170 - Interlude, and Another Podcast Endeavor
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...
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20 of 175 episodesEpisode 169 - Modern Eclipse Lunacy, Part 3: Richard Hoagland's Claims
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...
Episode 168 - Common (and False) Fine-Tuned Universe Beliefs, Discussed
An exploration into four groups of fine-tuning arguments used by some to say that we are special: Solar outbursts, habitable zone, lunar ori...
Episode 167 - Modern Eclipse Lunacy, Part 2: Flat Earth
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...
Episode 166 - Stellar Evolution, Age of the Universe, and Young-Earth Creationism
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...
Episode 165 - Little Things in Space
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...
Episode 164 - The World Didn't End on September 23, 2017
The world did not end, again, on September 23, 2017. However, the story behind this latest doomsday prognostication may surprise you -- it d...
Episode 163 - Modern Eclipse Lunacy, Part 1
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...
Episode 162 - Geocentrism, Take 2
Young-Earth creationists who are not geocentrists - those who accept the Copernican Revolution so far as Earth's place in the universe - hav...
Episode 161 - Water on Earth— Coriolis and Tides
Inspired by one of the longest-running primetime television shows in history, and frustration with late-night radio hosts pretending they ca...
Episode 160 - Apollo Hoax: The US Flag Waving, and the Moon of No Return
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...
Episode 159 - A Proposal for the Geologic Definition of Planet, Interview with Kirby Runyon
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union sparked an uproar and furious debate among scientists and non-scientists alike when they voted...
Episode 158 - Getting Beyond the Photograph: Image Tricks with Dr. Tod Lauer
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...
Episode 157 - Special Cross-Over Episode with The Reality Check, Astronomy Edition
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...
Episode 156 - The Scientific Method: How We Get to What We Know
The scientific method is the process through which most modern science is done. Whether done explicitly in its formalized steps or not, it u...
Episode 155 - New Science: Evidence for the Mandela Effect?
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...
Episode 154 - Impact Crater Pseudoscience Mishmash
Impact craters form the basis of, or fit into the claimed evidence for, several different kinds of pseudoscientific claims. In this episode,...
Episode 153 - What Is Radiation?
Radiation is a mechanism for a large array of pseudosciences out there today, almost on par with quantum mechanics. The purpose of this epis...
Episode 152 - Modern Flat Earth Thought, Part 3 (Young-Earth Creationists Debunking Flat Earth)
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...
Episode 151 - The Fake Story of Planet X, Part X - Nancy Leider Redux and Planet Nine Claims of 2016
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...