The Skeptics Guide #1062 - Nov 15 2025

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Fringe-science, Skeptic, Skepticism, Psuedoscience, Science, Paranormal

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Live from Kansas; Special Segment: Nightmares; News Items: The NeuroWorm, Ant Gives Birth to Different Species, Primordial Black Holes, Cultish, Tooth Eye, Snake Oil, Flowing Water on Asteroid; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:06.4	Your escape to reality.
0:09.6	Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe.
0:17.1	Today is Saturday, September 20th, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:29.6	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:32.0	Hey, everybody.
0:34.4	Evan Bernstein.
0:35.4	Hello, Kansas.
0:38.1	Jay Novella Hey guys
0:38.7	Kara Santa Maria
0:41.5	Howdy
0:42.0	Yeah, baby
0:44.1	And George Robb
0:45.8	Antiam, Anteem
0:47.0	Yeah, George
0:49.0	We are live from
0:50.9	Lawrence, Kansas
0:52.3	This is my first time in Kansas
0:53.8	How about you guys? Yeah, first time. Third time. Third time? Yes. How do you know that? Yeah, you drove through it twice. I've driven through it twice, once north-south and once east-west, and that was it. We may stop for lunch or something while we were moving around the country, but that's it. Never had a whole day in Kansas. When we were driving from the airport, George said, you know, if we didn't know we were in Kansas, could you tell from just looking around? And other than being flatter than we're used to, not really. Yeah. It looks a lot like Texas, honestly. Yeah. But not the hill country, but like North Texas. Parts look like Jersey or like Pennsylvania, too.
1:28.3	Like, I mean, that's the problem with, you know, Raymore and Flanagan being everywhere. That's the thing. That's how it works. America. America, yeah. Yeah, it's chilies and basically it's all the same thing. Yeah. We're going to start off with a little bit of a discussion about nightmares. Evan suggested this as a possible news item.
1:47.2	The item itself is pretty simple.
1:49.2	It's like, how, you can control your nightmares and it makes you healthier.
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