This week's Skeptoid episode is another where I seem to have gotten out of bed on the

wrong side and just feel like fighting with people who send in wrong feedback.

For example, condescendingly telling me that I should pronounce a certain foreign word,

the way that dictionary.com's computer voice pronounces it instead of the way a native

speaker of that language does.

More listener feedback is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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listener feedback strikes back. Whenever I check my email, I first dig a trench in the snow

to fortify my position. For sure enough, the feedback emails come lumbering in from the distance

like great big four-legged robots. We trade laser-like barbs, but it never settles much.

Generally, I have to bring in the big guns and one by one I tie the legs of each email,

trip it to the ground and then blow it up as I do for you today now.

Tim from New York took issue with the episode in which I argued that scientists should not agree

to public debate with pseudoscience. My basic reasoning being that the loudest message broadcast

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