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Skeptoid #314: Botches and Bungles

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2012

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Skeptoid goes back and corrects some errors from previous episodes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today we've got another round of corrections to past episodes, keeping it real and keeping

0:08.5

things accurate.

0:10.0

Today we're going to clarify the difference between brewing and distilling, some important

0:14.6

dimensional issues concerning the German World War II monster tank P1000 and a logical

0:21.3

error over just how long the earth has been exposed to cosmic rays.

0:27.4

Watchers and bungles are coming right up, unskeptoid.

0:31.0

Hey everyone, Brian here.

0:38.8

A quick favor, we are conducting an audience survey.

0:42.6

We'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey.

0:47.0

This is the kind of thing that's sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make

0:50.3

the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish, so please check it out.

0:55.6

So surveys are fun, you get to talk about yourself.

0:58.7

Please visit survey.prx.org slash scaptoid to take the survey today.

1:05.9

That's survey.prx.org slash SKEPTOID.

1:13.7

Thanks.

1:16.7

You're listening to scaptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from scaptoid.com, botches and bungles.

1:26.9

Try as I might, no scaptoid episode is perfect.

1:30.0

They're all too short to be comprehensive, which is expected fallout from the short format.

1:34.7

They're colored by my own personal biases and preconceived notions, which is a fact

1:39.2

that I have to be honest about since I'm the one who's always advising everyone that

1:42.1

they're probably guilty of the same thing.

1:44.6

But most significantly, they have errors.

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