We talk about a lot of urban legends and conspiracy theories and stuff on Skeptoid.

And to understand them best, we need to understand them accurately and in their proper context.

Thus, precision and reliability are some of our most important tools.

However, sometimes I get stuff wrong.

And so today we're going to correct those.

In order that we might keep the bar high for all the topics still to come.

Some corrections are coming up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Corrections with hat in hands.

Another week of Skeptoid and it's time for another episode dedicated to corrections.

For those listeners new to these, believe it or not I do get some facts wrong sometimes.

And when I do, it's necessary to correct them.

Not only in the interest of having Skeptoid be as good and accurate or resource as possible,

but also in the interest of all of us working to always improve our knowledge.

Myself included very much.

We all carry decent databases inside these clunky skulls of ours and not one among us

couldn't benefit from a tune up.

And so here we are today to do just that.

We'll get started with the correction about using the right terminology for geological periods.

In episode number 798 about the big cats of Britain, I mentioned how the Eurasian cave lion

had gone extinct at the end of the Pleistocene era.

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