Hello and welcome again to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

This is your host, Steven Novella, president of the New England Skeptical Society.

Today is October 6th, 2005.

With me tonight are Perry DeAngeles, and Evan Bernstein.

Good evening, all.

Bob cannot be with us tonight, but I'm sure he will be with us again next week.

Tonight we have just one item on the schedule.

We have a guest with us tonight, Chris Mooney.

Chris is a friend of mine back when he was at Yale, and he was running a Skeptical

Group at Yale at the time.

He is a journalist and a writer who operates, and this is a quote, a number of the quoted

from, at the intersection of science and politics.

He is the author of a recently released book, which is, is it still on the New York Times

bestseller list?

It was recently.

Yeah, it may not be when they released the Neckbells on the Dead.

Right, okay.

The Republican War on Science.

He's a regular contributor to the Skeptical Enquirer, writes an online column for a

psychop called Douyin About.

He's a contributing columnist for a new online media group called the Seed Media Group,

which is, we'll ask him about it, but basically its mission statement says it promotes the

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