Skeptics Guide #201 - May 27 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 30 May 2009

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Phil Plait; News Items: Whooping Cough Increase, Scientology on Trial, RNA World, Rook Tool Use, Northeast Skeptical Conference; Your Questions and E-mails: Polonium Halos; 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.
0:14.6	Today is Wednesday, May 27, 2009, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:21.0	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody.
0:24.0	Rebecca Watson.
0:25.0	Hello everyone.
0:27.0	Hey Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:30.8	Hey everyone, and did you know on May 30, in 1898, it was Sir William Ramsey and Morris
0:38.1	Travers discovered Krypton, the element Krypton.
0:42.0	Wow, that's so cool.
0:43.5	I'm doing an experiment.
0:44.5	Very, very cool.
0:45.5	Very, very cool.
0:46.5	Very cool, superman, right?
0:47.5	Yes, yes, that is the exact same one.
0:49.5	Yes.
0:50.5	Later William Ramsey won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Discovery of a bunch of Nobel
0:55.5	gases actually.
0:56.5	Right, then it became a super villain, didn't it?
0:58.9	Was that it?
0:59.9	Well, we have a lot of news to get through this week.
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