# Serious Inquiries Only Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493.md RSS feed: https://seriouspod.libsyn.com/ Official site: http://seriouspod.com Author: Thomas Smith Episodes: 838 ## Resource 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. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/serious-inquiries-only-495493 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493.md ## Episodes - [SIO523: What Cancer Actually Is, Part 1 (with Dr. Eric Jaffe)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio523-what-cancer-actually-is-part-1-with-dr-eric-jaffe) — 2026-07-28T09:53:00+00:00 - [SIO522: College Is Impossibly Expensive. But It's Not Because of Bogus Degrees.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio522-college-is-impossibly-expensive-but-it-s-not-because-of-bogus-degrees) — 2026-07-21T21:00:00+00:00 - [SIO521: The Daily Is Sane-Washing Trump's War on Higher Ed](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio521-the-daily-is-sane-washing-trump-s-war-on-higher-ed) — 2026-07-21T19:40:00+00:00 - [SIO520: My Talk at SkeptiCal - Selective Skepticism Is Not Skepticism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio520-my-talk-at-skeptical-selective-skepticism-is-not-skepticism) — 2026-06-30T08:52:00+00:00 - [SIO519: People Are Misinterpreting Obsession in Very Revealing Ways](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio519-people-are-misinterpreting-obsession-in-very-revealing-ways) — 2026-06-24T05:09:00+00:00 - [SIO518: Biological Definitions Do Not Do What Richard Dawkins Says They Do](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio518-biological-definitions-do-not-do-what-richard-dawkins-says-they-do) — 2026-06-16T09:31:00+00:00 - [SIO517: How Is It That 9 Days in Space Means Weeks of Rehabilitation?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio517-how-is-it-that-9-days-in-space-means-weeks-of-rehabilitation) — 2026-06-09T09:50:00+00:00 - [SIO516: How a Botched 1840 Census "Proved" Freedom Made Black Americans Disabled, with Sari Altschuler](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio516-how-a-botched-1840-census-proved-freedom-made-black-americans-disabled-with-sari-altschuler) — 2026-05-31T23:14:00+00:00 - [SIO515: A Vast, Global Network! ... of 3 Guys](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio515-a-vast-global-network-of-3-guys) — 2026-05-18T08:07:00+00:00 - [SIO514: No Part of the "62 Million Men Enrolled In Online Rape Academy" Claim Was Correct](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio514-no-part-of-the-62-million-men-enrolled-in-online-rape-academy-claim-was-correct) — 2026-05-18T05:37:00+00:00 - [SIO513: Debunking Butler Conspiracy Theories in Descending Order by Scope](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio513-debunking-butler-conspiracy-theories-in-descending-order-by-scope) — 2026-05-02T10:00:00+00:00 - [SIO512: NO It Was Not Staged. Stop Being Joe Rogan.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio512-no-it-was-not-staged-stop-being-joe-rogan) — 2026-04-30T04:46:00+00:00 - [SIO511: What a Recent Chappell Roan Incident Teaches Us About Sexism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio511-what-a-recent-chappell-roan-incident-teaches-us-about-sexism) — 2026-04-18T09:52:00+00:00 - [SIO510: Digging Into the Science of the Placebo Effect](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio510-digging-into-the-science-of-the-placebo-effect) — 2026-04-12T07:15:00+00:00 - [SIO509: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right (And Very Wrong...) About Biology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio509-what-project-hail-mary-gets-right-and-very-wrong-about-biology) — 2026-04-04T09:10:00+00:00 - [SIO508: The Data Shows That Authoritarianism Is Very Often Successfully Reversed. Yes, Really.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio508-the-data-shows-that-authoritarianism-is-very-often-successfully-reversed-yes-really) — 2026-03-31T07:17:00+00:00 - [SIO507: Shirley You're Joking, Minnesota Fraud Man!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio507-shirley-you-re-joking-minnesota-fraud-man) — 2026-03-26T16:00:00+00:00 - [SIO506: Minnesota Fraud and the Death of Information](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio506-minnesota-fraud-and-the-death-of-information) — 2026-03-24T18:30:00+00:00 - [SIO505: The ICE Whistleblower Hearing Was Astonishing. It Needs More Attention.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio505-the-ice-whistleblower-hearing-was-astonishing-it-needs-more-attention) — 2026-03-15T10:00:00+00:00 - [SIO504: The Other Kind of Nut Allergy. Well, Both Kinds, I Guess?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio504-the-other-kind-of-nut-allergy-well-both-kinds-i-guess) — 2026-03-15T00:18:00+00:00 - [SIO503: Viral Post Claims Texas Has More Democrats Than Republicans. Is That True?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio503-viral-post-claims-texas-has-more-democrats-than-republicans-is-that-true) — 2026-02-26T08:38:00+00:00 - [This Is The Dark Place. Why Aren't We Acting Like It?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/this-is-the-dark-place-why-aren-t-we-acting-like-it) — 2026-01-27T09:49:00+00:00 - [SIO501: What Pluribus Gets Right about Neuroscience](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio501-what-pluribus-gets-right-about-neuroscience) — 2026-01-07T17:00:00+00:00 - [SIO500: A New Study Suggests Brain Imaging Might Have Significant Flaws](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio500-a-new-study-suggests-brain-imaging-might-have-significant-flaws) — 2026-01-01T03:12:00+00:00 - [SIO499: Trump Is Weaponizing Government Against Political Enemies. Nick Fish, President of American Atheists, on How to Be Prepared](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-inquiries-only-495493/sio499-trump-is-weaponizing-government-against-political-enemies-nick-fish-president-of-american-atheists-on-how-to-be-prepared) — 2025-12-02T11:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.