Are you curious about the inner workings of science and its processes? So are we! In each episode, we tackle some of science's most burning questions from the perspective of two people who don't actually have any idea what's going on, but we'll do our best to explain it to you. Eventually, we'll get to what the real answers are!
You Think This Is A Game? (The Fourth Coming) | Bad Science #17
Today's experiment:
1. Come for the fourth time.
2. Produce creatively cooled naughty juice.
3. Utilize Taylor Lautner and Taylor Lautner.
4. "Lose" $1100. It doesn't matter.
5. "Win" $5500. It still doesn't matter.
6. Hopefully, not offend the Dutch.
1 Sept 2025
Sticky Lips of the Sunset Killer: Science News Solved (Part 3) | Bad Science #16
Host Alex Lathbridge and guest Dr. Eleanor Vance explore the surprising dating habits of entomological beings and the difficulty of video games.
25 Aug 2025
Booty Juice is our Secret Ingredient | Bad Science #15
Host Alex Lishke and guest Dr. Anya Sharma explore the surprising science behind everyday items and pop culture in this interview.
18 Aug 2025
This New Worm Will Shock Your Mom | Science News Solved (Part 2)
Host Alex Lathbridge and guest Dr. Emily Carter explore the surprising discovery of a new worm species, revealing its unique biological functions.
11 Aug 2025
Bacteria Can Be a Little Racist | Science News Solved (Part 1)
Host Alex Lathbridge interviews Dr. Emily Carter about how bacteria exhibit surprising "racist" tendencies, offering insights into microbial behavior.
7 Dec 2024
The Worst Gender Reveal You've Never Heard Of
Today's experiment:
1. Hide from your viewers for personal reasons.
2. investigate the important questions.
3. Get way too chummy with your toilet.
4. Rope your poor Father into this.
5. Search many "watch-list-able" subjects.
6. Discover new torture methods for no real reason.
2 Dec 2024
The Void Isn't Coming for You, I Am | Fear (Part 2)
We're back! We're here to educate?
Today's Experiment:
1. Confide in your best friend. Regret it immediately.
2. Preach a sermon about your cohost's demise.
3. Confuse microscopes and telescopes.
4. Finally calm down (ephemerally).
5. Talk about movies again because it’s the only actual thing we know how to do.
6. Never find the spider again. Thank God.
16 Sept 2024
Night of the Spider | Fear (Part 1)
Today's Experiment:
1. Relax to the sound of Horses mating.
2. Accuse Chemists of syrup production.
3. Accept "facts" too quickly.
4. Summon the spiders.
5. Apologize for profanity.
6. Beg for scientifically spontaneous meals.
9 Sept 2024
Give Me Transportation or Give Me a Lobotomy
Today's Experiment:
1. Blow a big hole through the Earth.
2. Don't do that. Small ones are fine.
3. Ask South Korea if you can borrow their Fusion Reactor.
4. Slow Earth's rotation so you can have less gravity.
5. Argue about what that will do to people.
6. Strap rockets to the Earth and call it a day.
2 Sept 2024
One Valve is Worth Two Bees in the Bush
Today's Experiment:
1. Refuse the well-laid plans of your cohost.
2. Go *bluhbluhbluhbluhbluhbluhbluhbluhbluhbluh*
3. Stop the bees from floating away. Seriously! Help!
4. Roll those ball-and-sockets!
5. Don't go tell the bees and the knees.
6. Figure out if ChatGPT is making s**t up.
26 Aug 2024
Elon's Rainbow Robots and their Blue Teeth
Today's experiment:
1. Change your clothes (please for the love of God).
2. Preach a *sort of* sermon. Go ahead.
3. Uncover Elon's plan for gay robots.
4. Open Pandora's box of Bluetooth and Bluetooth adjacent things.
5. Believe in the little butt holes.
6. Resurrect your TV remote.
7. Chalk it all up to the best science ever (as long as you know it's bad, it's good).
19 Aug 2024
Is That Your Pituitary Gland or Ya Just Happy To See Me?
Today's Experiment:
1. Show your face.
2. Offend paralyzed people.
3. Draw extremely accurate depictions of brain parts.
4. Discover the feminine-neural Bandaid.
5. Confound your neurologist.
6. Try not to *pop*.
12 Aug 2024
A Big Bowl of Spaghetti and Butt Worms
Today's Experiment:
1. Argue over what a string is.
2. Anger all English majors as well as Science majors.
3. Find Kevin Bacon.
4. Call your Father and ask about Butt Worms.
5. Discuss Quantumly relevant spaghetti.
6. Call your Father again and ask if any of it matters.
7. Give up entirely (as usual).
5 Aug 2024
Livers and Lungs Are Not Lovers
Today's Experiment:
1. Slap the table.
2. Apologize to the table, but hey it's for science after all.
3. Mix as many metaphors as possible.
4. Discover the difference between atoms and cells.
5. Have a diaphragm attack.
6. Provide vibration for everybody.
7. Quit while you're ahead.
29 Jul 2024
Which Came First, the Fossil or the Fuels?
Todays Experiment:
1. Watch dinosaurs die.
2. Give them a pocket.
3. Produce fossil fuels.
4. Produce a fossil.
5. Maybe flip steps 3-4. Maybe.
6. Reminder to call a real scientist later.
22 Jul 2024
I'd Rather Take a Zyrtec
Today's Experiment:
1. Familiarize yourself with William Wallace.
2. Only watch Disney's Encanto once.
3. Piece together a rough plot outline and use it as concrete evidence of your theory.
4. Confuse medical benefits and economic benefits.
5. Rid the world of its allergies.
6. IMPORTANT! Remember that its not worth the trouble.
15 Jul 2024
Make James Cameron Do It
Welcome to the Bad Science Podcast!
Today's experiment:
1. Discover if the ocean is in Texas.
2. Collect all the ocean water.
3. Choose a color to dye the entire ocean.
4. Consider nanobots.
5. Release the ocean back to its original place.
6. Explore more than just 5% of it.
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Dr Eleanor Vance
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Dr Emily Carter
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