Skeptics Guide #208 - Jul 11 2009
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Dr. Steven Novella MD
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🗓️ 18 July 2009
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:07.3 | Your escape to reality. |
| 0:12.3 | Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe. |
| 0:22.5 | We are live from Tam Seven in Las Vegas. |
| 0:32.5 | Today is Friday, July 11th, 2009, and this is your host, Stephen Novella. |
| 0:40.8 | Joining me this week as always is Bob Novella. |
| 0:44.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:48.4 | Rebecca Watson. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello. |
| 0:53.7 | Jane Novella, hey guys. |
| 0:58.8 | And Evan Bernstein. |
| 1:03.0 | And it was on this day in 1925, the Scopes Monkey trial began in Dayton Tennessee running |
| 1:10.4 | for 12 days. |
| 1:12.4 | Monkey. |
| 1:13.4 | Local School teacher John Scopes was prosecuted under the State's Butler Act. |
| 1:18.1 | The law prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools. |
| 1:21.8 | Trial was a platform to challenge the legality of the statute. |
| 1:25.6 | Scopes was convicted and fined $100. |
| 1:28.2 | On appeal, the State Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the law, but acquitted |
| 1:33.5 | scopes on the technicality that he had been fined excessively. |
| 1:37.5 | And the law was actually repealed in 1967, finally. |
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