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Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

Today is Wednesday, December 12, 2007, and this is your host, Stephen Novella, president

of the New England Skeptical Society.

We have a bit of a special episode this week.

We did an interview with Alex Securis from Skeptico to hammer out many of our differences

that we've been having over how to interpret the paranormal research.

The interview went a little bit longer than expected, and we decided that we wanted to

include the interview in this episode in its entirety without cutting out any sections

of it.

So, the bulk of the episode this week is going to be the interview with Alex from Skeptico,

which will come up in just a moment.

And at the end of the episode, the rest of the rogues will join me, and we will still

do the science or fiction segment as well as the answer to last week's Skeptical Puzzle

and Introduction of a New Puzzle.

So, we'll still do the usual end of the episode segments, but there won't be any news or

emails this week.

We will, of course, return to our usual format next week.

So here is the interview with Alex from Skeptico.

Joining us now is Alex Securis.

Alex, welcome to the Skeptic's Guide.

Thanks for having me on, Steve.

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