The Skeptics Guide #134 - Feb 13 2008

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 16 February 2008

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Interview with PZ Myers; News Items: Bat Evolution, UK Officials Evict Ghost, Acupuncture and IVF, Alien Mind Control, Darwin Day; Your Questions and E-mails: Fasting; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.0	You're escape to reality.
0:12.0	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:14.0	Today is Wednesday, February 13th, 2008, and this is your host, Stephen Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society.
0:22.0	Joining me this evening are Bob Novella.
0:24.0	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:26.0	Hello everyone.
0:28.0	Hey, do you want to know what happened two hundred eighty years ago today?
0:37.0	I can't wait.
0:38.0	Yes.
0:39.0	It was the passing of Cotton Mather, February 13th, 2017.
0:44.0	Very good author.
0:47.0	Cotton Mather.
0:48.0	The very good author.
0:49.0	We all know him.
0:50.0	We've got the name from his connection to the Salem Witch Trials.
0:54.0	That's right.
0:55.0	You just sounded so excited when you started.
0:58.0	I thought it was going to be something, you know, fun.
1:00.0	It was anti-climatic.
1:01.0	It was a little anti-climatic.
1:03.0	Jay, how was Sweden?
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