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Science Fictions

Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie

EN137 episodes
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A weekly podcast about the latest scientific controversies, with Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie sciencefictionspod.substack.com

Episodes (137)

Episode 99.5: Candidate genes

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Episode 99: Power posing

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Paid-only episode 28: Tourette's syndrome

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Episode 98: Dark oxygen

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Episode 97: The 2D:4D digit ratio

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Mar 10, 20261:03:23completed

Paid-only episode 27: Antidepressants

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Episode 96: Electroconvulsive therapy

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Episode 95: Critical thinking

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Episode 94: Medical marijuana

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Paid-only episode 26: Microplastics redux

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Jan 20, 202610:47pending

Episode 93: Many analysts

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A Christmas 2025 compendium

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Dec 30, 202532:24pending

Episode 92: Oliver Sacks

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Dec 16, 20251:10:06pending

Paid-only episode 25: The menopause and hormone replacement therapy

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Dec 2, 202510:26pending

Unpaywalled: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media

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Nov 26, 20251:00:00pending

Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web

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Episode 90: Cognitive dissonance

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Paid-only episode 24: Creatine

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Episode 89: Halloween special on reincarnation

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Episode 88: Wellbeing

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Episode 87: Does Tylenol cause autism?

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Paid-only episode 23: Suicide contagion

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Episode 86: Food and climate

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Episode 85: Insectageddon

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Episode 84: Brain training

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Episode 83: Dark matter and dark energy

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Episode 82: Paper mills

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Unpaywalled: Diversity training

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Aug 20, 20251:05:08pending

Episode 81: Retraction

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Episode 80: Mindfulness meditation

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Episode 79: Cancer rates

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Episode 78: Worm wars and mouth bacteria

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Paid-only Episode 21: Psychological sex differences

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Episode 77: Anti-ageing, part 1

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Episode 76: The four-day week

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Episode 75: Broken windows theory

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Jun 10, 20251:14:50pending

Un-paywalled: Bicycle helmets

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Episode 74: Neurogenesis

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Episode 73: Borderline Personality Disorder

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Paid-only Episode 20: The Studies Show LIVE with Jesse Singal

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Episode 72: Parenting (Part 1)

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Episode 71: The autism epidemic

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Paid-only Episode 19: Circumcision

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Episode 70: Bird flu

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Episode 69: Conspiracy theories

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Episode 68: Cannabis

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Invitation to The Studies Show LIVE

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Paid-only Episode 18: Abortion

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Episode 67: Seed oils

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Episode 66: Superforecasting

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