Skeptics Guide #246 - Mar 31 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 3 April 2010

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Special Guest: Eugenie Scott; News Items: Update from the NCSE, Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticles, Prison Psychics, Changing Morality with Magnets; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Skeptics and Atheists; 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.
0:11.3	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:13.5	Today is Wednesday March 31st, 2010 and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:19.8	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:21.4	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:23.5	Hello everyone.
0:24.5	Jane Novella.
0:25.5	Hey guys, Evan Bernstein.
0:27.8	Good evening.
0:29.4	Next, our special guest wrote this week is you Jeannie Scott.
0:34.1	Jeannie, welcome back to the Skeptics Guide.
0:36.1	Thank you.
0:37.1	Nice to be here.
0:38.1	Jeannie Scott is, as most people probably know, the director of the National Center for
0:42.4	Science Education.
0:43.8	She has been waging almost a one woman defense of the teaching of science and evolution
0:49.9	in the United States for the last about 20 years, right?
0:53.4	Yes, but who's counting?
0:57.5	Actually, Evan was before we recorded tonight.
1:01.4	Evan was sending around a YouTube video.
1:03.8	Have you seen this called Blast from the Past, Controversial Issues in Science Education?
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