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Wired.com presents

The Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr Curdley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 526 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy.

I'm David Barr Curdley, author of the book Save Me Please and Other Stories, which is

available now on amazon.com.

We had a great conversation about the book back in episode 500, so definitely check that

out if you missed it.

And today's guest is Steven Devella, co-host of the popular podcast The Skeptic Sky

to the Universe.

He's an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine, author

of the blog Neuralogica, and senior editor of the website Science-Based Medicine.

He's also the founder and president of the New England Skeptical Society, a fellow of

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