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Join Thomas for some critical thinking on questions of science, philosophy, skepticism and politics. These serious topics are discussed with some serious guests, but in an entertaining and engaging way! This is not your typical interview podcast; it’s a friendly dialogue, conducted thoughtfully and with plenty of humor. It's Serious Inquiries Only; but like, not boring or anything.

SIO508: The Data Shows That Authoritarianism Is Very Often Successfully Reversed. Yes, Really.

70 hours 40 mins; March 31, 2026

SIO507: Shirley You're Joking, Minnesota Fraud Man!

43 mins; March 26, 2026

SIO506: Minnesota Fraud and the Death of Information

47 mins; March 24, 2026

SIO505: The ICE Whistleblower Hearing Was Astonishing. It Needs More Attention.

79 hours 28 mins; March 15, 2026

SIO504: The Other Kind of Nut Allergy. Well, Both Kinds, I Guess?

62 hours 1 min; March 14, 2026

SIO503: Viral Post Claims Texas Has More Democrats Than Republicans. Is That True?

51 mins; February 26, 2026

This Is The Dark Place. Why Aren't We Acting Like It?

147 hours 19 mins; January 27, 2026

SIO501: What Pluribus Gets Right about Neuroscience

50 mins; January 07, 2026

SIO500: A New Study Suggests Brain Imaging Might Have Significant Flaws

72 hours 56 mins; December 31, 2025

SIO499: Trump Is Weaponizing Government Against Political Enemies. Nick Fish, President of American Atheists, on How to Be Prepared

69 hours 36 mins; December 02, 2025

SIO498: The Science of Hallucinations, Ear-worms, and Phantom Limbs

69 hours 6 mins; November 26, 2025

SIO497: The Mamdani Machine Exposed! Part 2

73 hours 32 mins; November 04, 2025

SIO496: Asra Nomani Has EXPOSED the Mamdani Machine!

49 mins; November 04, 2025

SIO495: Can AI Chatbots Make You Delusional? A Psychologist Explains

58 mins; October 30, 2025

SIO494: Autism and ADHD, Part 2

48 mins; October 24, 2025

SIO493: Kids with ADHD/Autism Struggle with Mental Health. New Study Says Maybe It's the Stress of Being Different

61 hours 23 mins; October 23, 2025

SIO492: How Radicalized Was Kirk's Killer, Really?

54 mins; September 26, 2025

SIO491: What Do We Actually Know About Tyler Robinson? Why Did He Kill Charlie Kirk?

62 hours 32 mins; September 22, 2025

SIO490: The "Leaky Pipeline" of Academia

44 mins; September 09, 2025

SIO489: TikTok Banned #Skinnytok and It Was Right to Do So

63 hours 17 mins; September 03, 2025

SIO488: She Filmed Her Harassment and It Went Viral on TikTok

49 mins; August 29, 2025

SIO487: How Close Is Iran Actually To Nuclear Weapons?

43 mins; August 01, 2025

SIO486: Good News! According to The Economist, College Is Totally Affordable!

56 mins; August 01, 2025

SIO485: It's Not Rocket Science

44 mins; July 01, 2025

SIO484: Lawsuit Alleges Voting Irregularities in 2024. Is There Any There There?

46 mins; July 01, 2025

SIO483: Jordan Peterson Debated a Bunch of Atheists. So... How Did That Go? Part 2

40 mins; June 02, 2025

SIO482: Jordan Peterson Debated a Bunch of Atheists. So... How Did That Go?

57 mins; June 01, 2025

SIO481: Ok What Was the Deal With the Direwolves

53 mins; May 28, 2025

SIO480: Abortion Legislation Gets Embryonic Terminology and Facts All Wrong

62 hours 3 mins; May 01, 2025

SIO479: Does Speaking Your Partner's "Love Language" Foster a Happier Relationship?

36 mins; April 30, 2025

SIO478: This AI Is Not My Girlfriend, It's My... Social Agent...

41 mins; April 06, 2025

SIO477: Debunking Bad AI Research, and Bad Coverage of AI Research

44 mins; April 04, 2025

SIO476: Greg Palast Claims the Election Was Stolen. Let's Check His Work. PART 2

54 mins; April 02, 2025

SIO475: Greg Palast Claims the Election Was Stolen. Let's Check His Work.

60 hours 43 mins; April 01, 2025

SIO474: They've Been Telling Us They'd Do This for a Long Time. Many Just Weren't Listening

43 mins; March 01, 2025

SIO473: A Strange Man Is Inside Our Government

44 mins; February 03, 2025

SIO472: Anti-woke Crybabies Call ASL Interpreters Unnecessary. Here's the Fascinating Science Behind Why They Are Vital

48 mins; January 31, 2025

It's 2025. Please Stop Playing Dumb. It Was A Nazi Salute.

55 mins; January 23, 2025

Trump’s Health Nominees Are a Steaming Pile of Grift

42 mins; January 01, 2025

Dr. Rick on Trump’s Terrible HHS, Continued; and, Trump's Surgeon General Nominee

37 mins; January 01, 2025

Trump's Health and Human Services Agency, with Dr. Rick Sullivan

44 mins; January 01, 2025

You Don’t Actually Need to Condemn the Murder of the CEO Guy

56 mins; December 12, 2024

Epidemiologist Claims MAGA Is An Epidemic Caused By "Brain Flaws." Only Problem Is, That's Completely Unscientific and Based On Almost Nothing.

67 hours 29 mins; November 30, 2024

No, She Didn't 'Lose' 15m Democratic Votes

56 mins; November 07, 2024

SIO464: All About Synesthesia, Part 2

56 mins; November 01, 2024

SIO463: Synesthesia - How Does It Work?

50 mins; October 31, 2024

SIO462: The Day the Dinos Died

61 hours 45 mins; October 30, 2024

SIO461: So You Want To Destroy the Earth...

60 hours 41 mins; September 30, 2024

SIO460: Actual Experts Debunk the Cass Review

53 mins; September 20, 2024

SIO459: Understanding CRISPR with Dr. Eric Jaffe

53 mins; September 13, 2024

SIO458: How Eye Color Reveals the Complexity of Genetics

50 mins; September 11, 2024

SIO457: Facilitated Communication is Fake, with Kelly Burke

39 mins; September 01, 2024

SIO456: Are You a Good Drug or a Bad Drug?

49 mins; August 29, 2024

SIO455: This Is Your Brain on Drugs, With Dr. Jenessa Seymour

54 mins; August 29, 2024

SIO454: Bret Weinstein's Incredibly Curious PhD Thesis

81 hours 24 mins; August 10, 2024

SIO453: How Could Bret Weinstein Have Been So Wrong About COVID?

54 mins; August 01, 2024

SIO452: Ambivalent Attitudes Promote Support for Extreme Political Actions

64 hours 25 mins; July 30, 2024

SIO451: IUD Insertion Videos on TikTok - 0/10 Do Not Recommend

47 mins; June 30, 2024

SIO450: From Trump Voter in 2016 to Progressive Making a Real Difference in 2024

53 mins; June 18, 2024

SIO449: The Northern Lights Went South for the Summer

50 mins; May 27, 2024

SIO448: How To Build A Dinosaur

58 mins; May 21, 2024

SIO447: Steve Vladeck on the Shadow Docket

57 mins; May 01, 2024

SIO446: Believe It Or Not, The Right Has An Effective Youth Movement

38 mins; April 29, 2024

SIO445: The Science of 3 Body Problem with Paul Sutter

53 mins; April 28, 2024

SIO444: Climate Change Made "the Blob." It Killed Tons of Marine Life

37 mins; April 27, 2024

SIO443: Dr. Jo Boaler Tried To Improve Math Education. Then An Anti-woke Mob Came For Her

45 mins; April 25, 2024

SIO442: Is Quantum Technology Actually Better?

45 mins; April 23, 2024

SIO441: Elon Musk's Neuralink - Real Or Just Hype? Part 2

39 mins; April 18, 2024

SIO440: Elon Musk's Neuralink - Real or Just Hype?

52 mins; April 18, 2024

SIO439: God and Country with Katherine Stewart

40 mins; March 30, 2024

SIO438: That's Absurd Please Elaborate

55 mins; March 28, 2024

SIO437: Zoë Schiffer on Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover

55 mins; March 26, 2024

SIO436: They’re Retconning George Floyd’s Murder, but Radley Balko Is Fighting Back

48 mins; March 21, 2024

SIO435: The Radical Idea That We Shouldn’t Work Ourselves to Death

46 mins; March 19, 2024

SIO434: Biden Is Failing On Israel-Palestine. So What Do We Do?

50 mins; March 14, 2024

SIO433: The Robot at the End of the Universe

59 mins; March 12, 2024

SIO432: How 13 Reasons Why Killed Kids

48 mins; March 04, 2024

SIO431: The Em Drive Is Supposed To Be Impossible. So Why Did Experiments Say It Worked?

61 hours 20 mins; February 29, 2024

SIO430: Real or Bullshit: Quantum Products Edition!

45 mins; February 26, 2024

SIO429: Artists Punished More Than Scientists for Same Misconduct

53 mins; February 25, 2024

SIO428: Regret After Gender-Affirming Surgery Is Virtually Nonexistent

47 mins; February 22, 2024

SIO427: Rescuing Science, with Dr. Paul Sutter

55 mins; February 13, 2024

SIO426: In Defense of Virtue Signaling

33 mins; February 09, 2024

SIO425: Can Science Be Spiritual?

43 mins; February 06, 2024

SIO424: Semen Caught Violating Newton's 3rd Law? (the one about cum)

48 mins; February 01, 2024

SIO423: Bill Maher Gets Owned By Peter Griffin On COVID Nonsense

40 mins; January 31, 2024

SIO422: Tucker Carlson, Space Genius

63 hours 33 mins; January 30, 2024

SIO421: More Technological Anti-Solutions

41 mins; January 26, 2024

SIO420: Technological Anti-Solutions

46 mins; January 25, 2024

SIO419: Men Are From App and Women Are From Browser

43 mins; January 18, 2024

SIO418: The Polarization Express

56 mins; January 15, 2024

SIO417: Does Our Evolutionary History Doom Us To Failure?

52 mins; January 11, 2024

SIO416: What Is A Living Wage?

63 hours 12 mins; January 08, 2024

SIO415: We Don't Live In A Simulation

49 mins; January 02, 2024

SIO414: So You Want To Simulate The Universe...

68 hours 29 mins; January 01, 2024

SIO413: The Search for the Man-Hating Feminist Continues

37 mins; December 30, 2023

SIO412: Do Feminists Hate Men?

47 mins; December 30, 2023

SIO411: Zeno, Pascal, and Sleeping Beauty All Walk Into a Bar...

63 hours 33 mins; December 29, 2023

SIO410: Futurama and Simulation Theory

51 mins; December 28, 2023

SIO409: Can You "Boost" Your Immune System?

54 mins; December 17, 2023

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