Today we've got a round of corrections to past Skeptoid episodes. Luckily none of these

impacted the conclusions made in the shows, but it's still important to keep the record

as straight as possible. We'll talk about one of the Japanese codes broken before Pearl

Harbor, about two errors I made in my show about DDT, and a hanging question on exactly

how many packs of cigarettes John Wayne smoked in a day. So more corrections are coming

right up, Un Skeptoid.

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You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. Corrections, erata,

blunders, and booboos. It's time once again for me to come to you with my hat and my hands

and my tail between my legs and confess all of my sins. Well, not all of them. I don't

think I'd burden you with quite so crushing a load. Just those having to do with errors

I've made in recent episodes. My listeners don't let me get away with much. When it happens,

sometimes I don't know whether it's that or the San Andreas fault opening up under my house.

The first thing I'd like to address was prompted by an email from Tom in Oregon who quite

elegantly laid out a case that I have habitually made invalid generalizations about environmentalists

when speaking about the worst and most extreme cases. I think it is true that most of the

major environmentalist groups, such as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Earth First, and so on,

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