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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to Science Talk, the weekly podcast of Scientific American

for the seven days starting January 2nd, 2008. I'm Steve

Mirsky. This is the 100th episode of Science Talk, but Scientific American Magazine is way

older, and it has some fascinating stuff in its closet, which we'll take a look at. Plus,

we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. If you're a frequent listener, you've heard Editor-in-Chief John Rennie on the program every once in a while.

He recently addressed the inaugural meeting of the New York Skeptic Society, and I came along and recorded his talk.

The first 15 minutes or so were devoted to a review of a couple of cases from way back in the magazine's history

when we got directly involved in debunking or attempting to debunk some quackery and some fakery.

Here's John Rennie.

I'm talking today about Scientific American a century and a half of skepticism.

Even that's slightly undervaluing it.

Scientific American has been around since August 28th of 1845.

It was just four pages long, four big newspaper-like pages. It had lots of old patent announcements,

and it had poetry, and it had little reports on science, and all kinds of things about that.

And these days, it actually looks more like this, and has a picture of me in it, which means it's not actually gotten any better during that time.

It's all sort of neutralized itself.

So, having been around since 1845, this is a very long time, obviously.

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