Skeptics Guide #226 - Nov 18 2009

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2009

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Kenny Feder; News Items: New Mammography Guidelines, Water on the Moon, Dark Flow, Lee Harvey Oswald Photo, Movie Reviews; 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.
0:11.2	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.0	Today is Wednesday, November 18th, 2009, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:19.4	Joining me this week are Bob Novella, everybody, Rebecca Watson, and everyone.
0:24.3	Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein.
0:27.5	Hey everyone.
0:28.8	November 18th.
0:29.8	Hello, November 18th, 1970.
0:33.0	No bell prize winner, Linus Pauling, declared on this day that large doses of vitamin
0:38.5	sea could ward off the common cold.
0:40.9	Oh boy.
0:41.9	How that worked out for him.
0:43.5	Don't stray from your specialty.
0:45.5	Yeah, I think you did better things this time.
0:47.8	And it says although the medical establishment immediately voiced their strong opposition
0:51.6	to the idea many ordinary people believed Dr. Pauling and began taking large amounts of
0:56.4	vitamin sea.
0:57.4	And still do today.
0:58.4	It's amazing how we associate vitamin sea with health or with the common cold.
1:02.6	I mean, every time I think about vitamin sea, it's the first thing that pops into my mind
1:07.4	is that it's a cure for the common cold.
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