Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdie.

Thanks so much for joining me today.

I'm your host, Kara Santa Maria,

and we've got a really great show for you today,

but before we jump into that, I want to take a moment

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slash talk nerdy podcast. All right without further ado my guest today on the show is Michael Sherman I should say Dr Michael

Sherman he's the publisher of Skeptic magazine and he's a monthly columnist

at Scientific American he's also an adjunct professor at Claremont Graduate University.

You probably know him if you do as one of the permanent skeptics in the movement.

And if you don't,'t well you're about to.

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