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Skeptoid #678: What the Feedback

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

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

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

More updates and additional information for some recent Skeptoid episodes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Although a podcast is largely a one-way communication medium, your voice is not shut out.

0:09.7

If you've got feedback on a past episode that's worthy of being shared, it will be broadcast,

0:15.3

which is what we're doing today.

0:17.5

Maybe you've got some interesting additional information about one of our past shows,

0:21.9

or maybe you've got something worth debating.

0:24.4

It all comes out in the laundry, eventually, right here.

0:28.7

More listener feedback is up next on Skeptoid.

0:37.1

You're listening to Skeptoid.

0:38.6

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

0:42.1

What the Feedback?

0:45.2

One of the great strengths of the scientific method is its self-correcting nature.

0:49.8

By design, it accommodates new information and new evidence, and theories are reshaped accordingly,

0:55.8

such that our current theory is always our best.

0:59.0

In a modest way, I try to make Skeptoid operate in the same manner.

1:03.1

It's very open to feedback and corrections, which are incorporated into the web transcripts

1:07.8

as often as they come in.

1:09.6

Thus is its body of work constantly in motion, as it improves incrementally.

1:15.0

This week I have another raft of such improvements, as we get feedback, updates, and improvements

1:20.6

from those of you who have written in with newer and better information.

1:26.4

Let's get started with this email that followed one of our Pop Quiz episodes,

1:30.5

the one about aliens and UFOs.

1:32.8

Now, my thought on the Pop Quiz is to have all the answers come from Skeptoid episodes,

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