SIO519: People Are Misinterpreting Obsession in Very Revealing Ways
The "nice guy" is the villain. We watched Obsession and cannot stop thinking about it. It has so much to say about gender, consent, "nice gu...
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20 of 834 episodesSIO518: Biological Definitions Do Not Do What Richard Dawkins Says They Do
Thomas is joined by Dr. Eric Jaffe , biologist, dinosaur enthusiast, and high school biology teacher, for a conversation that starts with a...
SIO517: How Is It That 9 Days in Space Means Weeks of Rehabilitation?
Thomas is joined by Dr. Jenessa Seymour to dig into the brain science behind a surprisingly strange phenomenon: why do astronauts who spent...
SIO516: How a Botched 1840 Census "Proved" Freedom Made Black Americans Disabled, with Sari Altschuler
The history of disability rights is often treated as a modern story, but what if that framing misses centuries of earlier, more complicated...
SIO515: A Vast, Global Network! ... of 3 Guys
Continuing the discussion of the CNN Rape Academy article. It gets even worse. And also, how our information environment is ruined and getti...
SIO514: No Part of the "62 Million Men Enrolled In Online Rape Academy" Claim Was Correct
You might have seen the CNN article from a while back entitled Exposing a global ‘rape academy’ . While most of the article is technically t...
SIO513: Debunking Butler Conspiracy Theories in Descending Order by Scope
We continue the pruning of idiotic Butler Shooting conspiracy theories. Once we establish the facts using actual sources, what room is there...
SIO512: NO It Was Not Staged. Stop Being Joe Rogan.
It wasn't staged. None of them were staged. Yes Trump was shot in the ear. I thought you all were doing a bit, but apparently you weren't. T...
SIO511: What a Recent Chappell Roan Incident Teaches Us About Sexism
Well, what do you know - it's a day that ends in y so the internet has a woman to hate. You might have seen some of the chatter about child-...
SIO510: Digging Into the Science of the Placebo Effect
Popular media will tell you that placebos, inert inactive substances taken as if they’re medication, can work miracles. …Placebos don’t “wor...
SIO509: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right (And Very Wrong...) About Biology
Everyone's favorite biologist and dinosaur enthusiast Dr. Eric Jaffe is back! Project Hail Mary is a very fun, and quite good, sciency movie...
SIO508: The Data Shows That Authoritarianism Is Very Often Successfully Reversed. Yes, Really.
“Yes we can” vote and protest our way out of authoritarianism. It’s a classic case of academic literature never making it to mainstream cons...
SIO507: Shirley You're Joking, Minnesota Fraud Man!
It's part 2 of the Minnesota fraud stuff. We get a little more Nick Shirley, dumbest person ever to testify in congress. And then I debunk t...
SIO506: Minnesota Fraud and the Death of Information
So now that we've covered a real hearing with brave whistleblowers that got NO attention, it's time to look at what happens over on the othe...
SIO505: The ICE Whistleblower Hearing Was Astonishing. It Needs More Attention.
Last month, there was a devastating hearing featuring a victim of ICE, an ICE whistleblower, and a previous DHS attorney. It revealed what,...
SIO504: The Other Kind of Nut Allergy. Well, Both Kinds, I Guess?
Part 2! Even more fun Quibbies. Allergies Bansal, A.S., Chee, R., Nagendran, V., Warner, A., & Hayman, G. (2007). Dangerous liaison: Sexuall...
SIO503: Viral Post Claims Texas Has More Democrats Than Republicans. Is That True?
It's Quibi Time (tm) with Jenessa! (Don't worry, I'll explain...) It's 2 debunks for the price of 1, or actually 5 debunks for the price of...
This Is The Dark Place. Why Aren't We Acting Like It?
I had a lot I needed to say about the ICE murders of Rene Good and Alex Pretti. And about the fascists who lie to our faces and know we can'...
SIO501: What Pluribus Gets Right about Neuroscience
Subject of much sci-fi media and philosophy discussions, the "hive mind" is also a key element of Vince Gilligan's ( Breaking Bad , Better C...
SIO500: A New Study Suggests Brain Imaging Might Have Significant Flaws
Brain pics, or they didn't happen? There's a recent study that demonstrates that some brain region activity might interact differently with...