Skeptics Guide #191 - Mar 18 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 21 March 2009

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Phil Plait; News Items: Pope on HIV and Condoms, 20th Anniversary of the World Wide Web, Canada Science Minister and Evolution; 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.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.7	Today is Wednesday, March 18, 2009, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:20.7	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:25.0	Hello everyone.
0:26.0	Jay Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:29.5	It was March 20, and in 1916, when Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity was published.
0:36.4	First published.
0:37.4	I remember that.
0:38.4	Awesome.
0:39.4	It's a good time.
0:40.4	That's better than that special theory of relativity.
0:41.4	Yeah, that weak paper here wrote.
0:43.4	But this one, this one, this one, the little bit good.
0:46.6	Did you guys ever hear that?
0:47.6	I don't know if it's a rumor or, you know, with myth of Einstein on his deathbed and
0:53.4	he was saying something in German and the nurse couldn't speak German.
0:57.0	Did you ever hear that?
0:59.8	I heard it, and I'm skeptical.
1:00.8	It is a myth, Steve.
1:01.8	Yeah.
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