Skepchick

Rebecca chats with Mary Brock and Topher Hunter about the intricacies of the new COVID vaccines, plus what the FDA is doing during approvals.

Rebecca chats with Maria D’Souza, Jamie Bernstein, and Mary Brock about whether Thanksgiving is Christian, why it’s great, why it sucks, and why we should obviously all stay home this year.

This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca chats with Maria D’Souza and Bjørnar Tuftin about the study that claimed jade amulets can protect you from COVID-19 (since retracted). Links! Bjørnar’s previous post on the topic Retraction Watch’s coverage of this debacle The European Space Agency’s map of the lithosphere What is serpentinization? Bjørnar’s website

Joe Biden is going to be president, but why did the projections say it was going to be a blow out? Rebecca chats with Skepchick’s resident stats nerd (and former Obama campaign staffer) Jamie Bernstein about polls, algorithms, voter suppression, and the most effective email subject line a campaign can use.

This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca and Dr. Nicole Gugliucci sit down with Amy Shira Teitel to discuss her book Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight!

This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca chats with A Sigler and Maria D’Souza about how James Randi brought them all together, and the complicated legacy he leaves behind.

This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca talks to Jamie Bernstein, Dr. Nicole Gugliucci, and Maria Walters about the various conspiracy theories surrounding the news that Donald Trump has contracted COVID-19.

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This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca talks COVID-19 antibody tests with Mary Brock, admin of Grounded Parents and a biotech scientist who develops antibody-based assays.

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This week on the Skepchick podcast, Rebecca chats with author, scientist, and Renaissance woman Emily Willingham about her new book Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis. Fellow Skepchick and biology enthusiast Amanda Leinbaugh joins the penisy fun!

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Astronomer Dr. Nicole Gugliucci is back along with bioengineer Dr. Christopher Hunter, talking to Rebecca about a recent "study" that suggests the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus came to Earth on a comet that was seen over China in October of 2019. Spoiler alert: that did not happen.