Science Fictions
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Science Fictions

by Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie

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

100 episodes
EN language
All Episodes
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Episode 97: The 2D:4D digit ratio
1:03:23 Mar 10, 2026
2
Paid-only episode 27: Antidepressants
9:06 Feb 24, 2026
3
Episode 96: Electroconvulsive therapy
1:13:25 Feb 17, 2026
4
Episode 95: Critical thinking
1:01:00 Feb 10, 2026
5
Episode 94: Medical marijuana
1:02:58 Feb 3, 2026
6
Paid-only episode 26: Microplastics redux
10:47 Jan 20, 2026
7
Episode 93: Many analysts
1:18:44 Jan 13, 2026
8
A Christmas 2025 compendium
32:24 Dec 30, 2025
9
Episode 92: Oliver Sacks
1:10:06 Dec 16, 2025
10
Paid-only episode 25: The menopause and hormone replacement therapy
10:26 Dec 2, 2025
11
Unpaywalled: Jonathan Haidt vs. social media
1:00:00 Nov 26, 2025
12
Episode 91: Entangled Life and the wood wide web
1:01:28 Nov 18, 2025
13
Episode 90: Cognitive dissonance
1:05:04 Nov 11, 2025
14
Paid-only episode 24: Creatine
11:03 Nov 4, 2025
15
Episode 89: Halloween special on reincarnation
1:02:37 Oct 28, 2025
16
Episode 88: Wellbeing
53:39 Oct 21, 2025
17
Episode 87: Does Tylenol cause autism?
1:06:43 Oct 14, 2025
18
Paid-only episode 23: Suicide contagion
10:40 Oct 7, 2025
19
Episode 86: Food and climate
54:54 Oct 2, 2025
20
Episode 85: Insectageddon
56:16 Sep 24, 2025
21
Episode 84: Brain training
1:07:04 Sep 16, 2025
22
Episode 83: Dark matter and dark energy
56:41 Sep 9, 2025
23
Episode 82: Paper mills
47:07 Sep 2, 2025
24
Unpaywalled: Diversity training
1:05:08 Aug 20, 2025
25
Episode 81: Retraction
1:11:53 Aug 5, 2025
26
Episode 80: Mindfulness meditation
1:04:59 Jul 29, 2025
27
Episode 79: Cancer rates
52:11 Jul 22, 2025
28
Episode 78: Worm wars and mouth bacteria
1:15:56 Jul 15, 2025
29
Paid-only Episode 21: Psychological sex differences
10:31 Jul 8, 2025
30
Episode 77: Anti-ageing, part 1
1:05:46 Jun 24, 2025
31
Episode 76: The four-day week
49:58 Jun 17, 2025
32
Episode 75: Broken windows theory
1:14:50 Jun 10, 2025
33
Un-paywalled: Bicycle helmets
55:33 Jun 4, 2025
34
Episode 74: Neurogenesis
1:06:23 May 28, 2025
35
Episode 73: Borderline Personality Disorder
1:03:24 May 20, 2025
36
Paid-only Episode 20: The Studies Show LIVE with Jesse Singal
8:32 May 13, 2025
37
Episode 72: Parenting (Part 1)
1:17:52 May 6, 2025
38
Episode 71: The autism epidemic
54:31 Apr 29, 2025
39
Paid-only Episode 19: Circumcision
10:05 Apr 22, 2025
40
Episode 70: Bird flu
55:25 Apr 15, 2025
41
Episode 69: Conspiracy theories
1:10:39 Apr 8, 2025
42
Episode 68: Cannabis
1:02:47 Apr 1, 2025
43
Invitation to The Studies Show LIVE
9:05 Mar 31, 2025
44
Paid-only Episode 18: Abortion
10:59 Mar 25, 2025
45
Episode 67: Seed oils
57:22 Mar 11, 2025
46
Episode 66: Superforecasting
1:15:53 Mar 4, 2025
47
Episode 65: Havana Syndrome and mass hysteria
52:00 Feb 25, 2025
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Paid-only Episode 17: The lab leak hypothesis
10:47 Feb 18, 2025
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Episode 64: IQ
1:14:58 Feb 11, 2025
50
Episode 63: Philosophy of science
1:10:24 Feb 4, 2025
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