Skeptics Guide #195 - Apr 15 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2009

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

News Items: John Maddox Dies, The Hand of God, Flying Microbots, Darwin Awards, Homeopathy Nonsense, Belief in Ghosts; Questions and E-mails: Corrections, Induction in Science; Randi Speaks; 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.
0:14.9	Today is Wednesday, April 15, 2009 and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:21.2	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:25.7	Hello everyone.
0:26.9	I'm Jay Novella, the hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:30.2	April 15, 1726.
0:33.6	Writer William Stuckley held a conversation with Sir Isaac Newton in Kensington during
0:40.4	which Newton recalled when formally the notion of gravity came to his mind.
0:45.6	Later, in writing the memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life, he recorded that Newton said,
0:50.5	I quote, it was occasioned by the fall of an apple as he sat in a contemplative mood.
0:57.0	Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground thought he to himself?
1:02.4	Why should it not go sideways or upwards but constantly to the earth's center?
1:07.7	So someone recalled someone else thinking he once thought something.
1:14.2	I am skeptical.
1:15.2	That's like hearsay.
1:17.7	It is a scientific fact.
1:20.1	You could prove that that's fossilifiable.
1:23.1	Oh, you're kidding.
1:25.0	Anything's fossilifiable on the internet.
1:27.1	Thank you.
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