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We often hear fantastic scientific claims that would change everything if true. Such as the report that algae is growing on the outside of the International Space Station or that engineers have built a rocket that requires no propellant to accelerate. We examine news stories that seem too sensational to be valid, yet just might be \u2013 including whether a killer asteroid has Earth\u2019s name on it.\nPlus, a journalist investigates why people hold on to their beliefs even when the evidence is stacked hard against them \u2013 from skepticism about climate change to Holocaust denial. And, why professional skeptics are just as enamored with their beliefs as anyone else.\nGuests:\n\n\nLynn Rothschild \u2013 Evolutionary biologist and astrobiologist at NASA Ames Research Center\n\n\nWill Storr \u2013 Journalist, author of The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science\n\n\n\nSteven Novella \u2013 Assistant professor, Yale University School of Medicine, host of the \u201cSkeptic\u2019s Guide to the Universe\u201d podcast\n\n\nDavid Morrison \u2013 Director of the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices