The Skeptics Guide #1065 - Dec 6 2025

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

News Items: Cognitive Legos, China's Planting Lots of Trees, Misinformation and Birth Control, Dark Matter Detection, Asteroid Bennu Ingredients for Life; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Climate Denial, Calcium Cardiac Scans; 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.
0:12.5	Today is Thursday, December 4th, 2025, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:17.2	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:18.9	Hey, everybody.
0:19.6	Kara Santa Maria.
0:20.7	Howdy? Jay Novella. Hey, everybody. Kara Santa Maria. Howdy.
0:21.3	Jay Novella.
0:22.1	Hey, guys.
0:22.7	And Evan Bernstein. Good afternoon, folks. Kara, you were away for a week and some of our listeners were freaking out. Like, where's Kara? I saw that. Is she coming back? They panicked. They absolutely panic. Kara, if you're ever going to walk away from the STU, you better give our audience like six months to get ready for it, you know? I'm just going to go on vacation. I'll take five years notice. So Kara is on the roof. For the fiddler. So Kara, I understand that psychology is no longer a profession. Oh my gosh. Is that in the list?
0:55.2	What? People don't get paid for it? I haven't been looking. I saw that social work was. Like nurses? I saw
0:59.6	social work and nursing. The psychology in the counseling, psychology, psychotherapy. Oh, they,
1:04.7	that got blacklisted too? Yeah, but I'm in the psychiatry department, so I think I can skate by.
1:09.8	Oh, good. Are you a clinical psychologist? I am. I'm clinical the psychiatry department, so I think I can skate by. Oh, good.
1:12.4	Are you a clinical psychologist?
1:13.3	I am.
1:15.2	I'm clinical not counseling.
1:19.2	Clinical psychology is included in the list, so that qualifies.
1:19.8	Oh, okay.
1:21.1	So I'm not, okay, that's good. So you are still a professional.
1:24.5	But nursing isn't.
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