Skeptics Guide #189 - Mar 4 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Fringe-science, Psuedoscience, Paranormal, Science, Skeptic, Skepticism

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🗓️ 4 March 2009

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Interview with Kenny Feder - Clovis Find; News Items: Vaccine Decision, Designer Babies, Riversnake Update, TAM7 Info; Science or Fiction; Who's That Noisy

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:12.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.7	Today is Wednesday, March 4th, 2009.
0:17.9	And this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:19.9	Joining me, as always, are the Skeptical Rogues.
0:22.6	Bob Novella?
0:23.6	Everybody?
0:24.6	Rebecca Watson?
0:25.6	Hello, everyone.
0:26.6	Jay Novella?
0:27.6	Hey, guys.
0:29.2	Kevin Burns, me.
0:30.6	And it was March 6th, 1869, when Demetri Mendeleev published his first version of the Periodic
0:37.7	Table of the Elements.
0:39.2	Wow, that's awesome.
0:40.2	It made a breakthrough.
0:41.2	The first one was really the best.
0:43.5	I think it kind of lost something with the subsequent sequels.
0:48.1	It says here, his final version of the Periodic Table, which he concocted in 1871, he left gaps
0:55.0	for telling that they would be filled by elements not then known in predicting the properties
0:59.6	of three of those elements.
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