The Skeptics Guide #1079 - Mar 14 2026

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Back to Basics: Fundamental Attribution Error; News Items: Improved Photosynthesis, Birth of a Magnetar, US Bioweapons Research, False Health Information from Chatbots; Your Questions and E-mails: Consistency; Name That Logical Fallacy; 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.
0:12.6	Today is Thursday, March 12th, 2026, and this is your host, Eva Novella.
0:18.1	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:20.1	Hey, everybody.
0:20.9	Kara Santa Maria.
0:22.2	Howdy.
0:22.8	And Evan Bernstein.
0:24.6	Good evening, everyone.
0:25.9	Are we missing?
0:27.0	Yeah, Jay's out of town this week.
0:28.4	He was given a bread making, like an advanced bread baking class by his brother and sister-in-law.
0:35.7	And, of course, they schedule it on our recording day. And it was impossible to move it. So he kind of was locked in. Teaching it or taking it? Taking it. Want to learn how to make baguettes. Ah, huh. Okay, then. All right. Yeah, good for him. I hope we're the beneficiaries of that, right?
0:56.3	Yeah, that's how I was going to have to pay us back.
0:57.1	Exactly.
0:58.0	Many baguettes.
1:04.5	So I got a lot of feedback about our discussion around medieval times last week.
1:07.9	Oh, where you go and you watch the jousting?
1:10.4	No, no, you're not, you were not, you were in here of it.
1:11.2	I use that joke already.
1:12.2	Not the restaurant.
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