Hello and welcome to the skeptics guide to the universe. This is your host, Steven Novella,

president of the New England Skeptical Society. Today is December 7th, 2005. With me today,

as always, are Bob Novella. Good evening. Perry DeAngeles. I'll have to put down my coffee

of the psychic sassquatch to join you for my show. Thanks for the sacrifice. You can get back to it later.

And as always, Evan Bernstein. Hello, everyone. Guys, thanks for joining me tonight.

Thank you, Steve. So today is December 7th. A day that will live in infamy, right?

The pro-harbor day. Pro-harbor day. Remember that, yeah. So we'll never forget that. We will remember

all of the Americans who lost their lives and limbs on that infamous day in 1941. Change the world.

No, we'll never forget. No, we'll never forget. Yes, evidence to prove that.

So we have an excellent guest on our show tonight, Wallace Samson, who will be joining us in just

a few minutes. But first just a couple of quick news items. First, an update on our last show,

we had reported that the University of Kansas was planning a course entitled Special Topics

and Religion, Intelligent Design, Creationism, and other religious mythologies. The course was to

be put on by Professor Paul Morekky. We discussed the fact that the university trying to retain some

shred of scientific credibility and prestige is trying to do anything to counteract the fact that

the Kansas State School Board for a second time is voting to either limit the teaching of evolution

or promote the teaching of intelligence design in Kansas Public Schools. Well, unfortunately,

the course has now been withdrawn by the University of Kansas. The apparent reason for doing this

is the fact that Paul Morekky, again the professor who was going to run the course,

made some indiscreet anti-religious remarks. I think actually it was in an email to students.

And he was slapped on the wrist by the University. He had to formally apologize. He said,

I made a mistake in not leading by example in this student organization email forum.

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