The Skeptics Guide #1024 - Feb 22 2025

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

Skepticism, Paranormal, Psuedoscience, Science, Fringe-science, Skeptic

4.7 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

News Items: Bird Brains, Indoor Air Quality, Abortions and Infant Mortality, Black Holes Without Singularities, Banning Chemtrails; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Asteroid Hitting the Moon; Swindler's List: Tax Scams; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.
0:09.6	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:12.7	Today is Wednesday, February 19th, 2025, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.
0:17.9	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.7	Hey, everybody.
0:20.4	Kara Santa Maria. Howdy. Jay Novella. Hey, this week are Bob Novella. Hey, everybody. Kara Santa Maria. Howdy. Jay Novela.
0:23.1	Hey, guys. And Evan Bernstein. Good evening, everyone. Happy Pluto day. Happy Pluto day. But, you know,
0:31.2	hey, we can still celebrate today. Absolutely. It's Pluto week, actually. Really? I agree. It deserves
0:37.2	an entire week. I mean, what the heck. We stripped it of its full planet status. We I agree. It deserves an entire week.
0:38.1	I mean, what the heck?
0:38.8	We stripped it of its full planet status.
0:40.7	We might as well give it a full week.
0:41.8	But it is the first and the largest dwarf planet.
0:45.6	Yeah, that's right.
0:47.1	The king of the dwarf planets.
0:48.7	They tried to make everybody feel better if they'll call them plutoids, which nobody does.
0:53.7	Yeah, right.
0:55.7	I see that once in a while, but yeah, it's not very common.
0:59.2	I mean, you know, I read this yesterday, oh, it's Pluto Day.
1:04.0	And I was thinking, like, does that mean on Earth or on Pluto?
1:07.5	Because we're not going to celebrate that thing for what another 300 years before it comes
1:11.6	around. But it is earth-based, yes, the celebration. Yeah, it still hasn't done a complete orbit
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