Skeptics Guide #241 - Feb 24 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2010

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Interview with Daniel Wilson; News Items: Homeopathy Smackdown in UK, What Darwin Got Wrong, The Bloom Box, Geller Aids Cops; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:11.1	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:13.4	Today is Wednesday, February 24, 2010, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:19.5	Join him to the week our Bob Novella, everybody.
0:22.2	Jane Novella, hey guys, and Evan Bernstein.
0:25.4	It was February 24, 1968, when Nature Magazine carried the announcement of the discovery of pulsars.
0:33.1	Big day in size.
0:35.0	1968.
0:36.0	You know what they did when they discovered that they thought that they might come from
0:40.1	an extraterrestrial intelligence, so they actually called these pulsars they found.
0:43.9	I think they found two of them, LGM1 and LGM2 for little Green Man 1 and little Green Man 2.
0:50.1	Green Man?
0:51.1	Yeah, little Green Man.
0:52.1	Yeah, I remember that's funny.
0:53.1	Until I realized that, no, this is natural.
0:55.5	Right, especially a rotating neutron star spewing out radio waves because of the magnetic field, right, huh?
1:03.6	Pretty much, yep.
1:04.6	So there you go.
1:05.6	Rebecca has the night off because she's sleepy.
1:07.6	So, she's sleepy time.
1:09.6	Who isn't sleepy?
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