Should You Eat Like A Caveman? Plus — 10 Years of Science Vs!

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 11.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today, we’re celebrating 10 years of Science Vs with … science! We’ll tell you all about the so-called orgasm gap, the incorrect idea that vaccines are linked to autism, and the incorrect idea that ivermectin helps with Covid-19. We’ll also cover the Paleo Diet — this was the first EVER episode of Science Vs. And you’ll hear one of the greatest moments in Science Vs history. THANK YOU for listening! Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVs10 (00:00) We’re celebrating 10 years of Science Vs! (04:10) Our peer-reviewed paper on the “orgasm gap” (10:13) Vaccines don’t cause autism (14:20) Ivermectin doesn’t help with Covid (20:54) Should you go on the paleo diet? (34:01) One of the greatest Science Vs moments of all time This episode was produced by Blythe Terrell, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Meryl Horn, Michelle Dang, Rose Rimler, and Ekedi Fausther-Keeys. Hannah Harris Green helped produce our Orgasm Gap episode. Heather Rogers was our lead producer on the Vaccines episode. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Mix and sound design by Bumi Hidaka. Music written by Bumi Hidaka, Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, So Wylie, and Bobby Lord. Thank you so much to all the folks who have helped make Science Vs over the years, including Caitlin Kenney, Alex Blumberg, Matt Lieber, Kaitlyn Sawrey, Angela Stengel, Ben Watts, Nick DelRose, Diane Wu, Austin Mitchell, Annie-Rose Strasser, Martin Peralta, Heather Rogers, Shruti Ravindran, Joel Werner, Sinduja Srinivasan, Odelia Rubin, Disha Bhagat, RE Natowicz, Courtney Gilbert, Rose Reid, Taylor White, Rasha Aridi, Romila Karnick, Lexi Krupp, Emma Munger, Peter Leonard, Catherine Anderson, Sam Bair, Bumi Hidaka, Lauren Silverman, Lily Kim, and so so many more!!! Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Verses.
0:05.0	And you know what's absolutely bonkers?
0:08.2	I've been saying those words to you all for 10 years.
0:18.2	That's right. This show that you are listening to right now, Science Versus, it's celebrating its 10th birthday this year.
0:26.9	And so a few months ago, we invited you, our listeners, to send us some voicemails with your thoughts on the show.
0:34.6	My name is Oliver. I am from Mexico.
0:37.6	This is Mallory from Denver, Colorado. My name is Oliver. I am from Mexico. This is Mallet from Denver, Colorado.
0:39.6	My name is Elaine, a Brazilian biologist living in New Zealand.
0:42.8	Just wanted to leave a message here to express my appreciation of your show.
0:46.1	I see it's your birthday coming pretty soon.
0:48.3	And just wanted to wish you a happy birthday science versus.
0:53.1	I absolutely love it.
0:54.5	I have enjoyed every single pun-tastic episode.
0:57.7	I got instantly hooked.
0:59.0	Much like my favorite pint of ice cream, you guys, as soon as I see you, I just have to inhale.
1:06.8	It was really amazing hearing about all the things that you'd learned from the show
1:11.4	and how in some cases the science really shook things up for you.
1:16.1	There is an episode of Science Verses that still haunts me to this day,
1:20.3	and it's the episode of brushing your teeth.
1:23.6	I feel like ever since I heard that episode,
1:25.8	I've lost all faith in the institution of
1:28.9	toothbrushing. I've always been a little bit blaze about microplastics, but now I have two
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