The Skeptics Guide #261 - Jul 10 2010

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 17 July 2010

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Live Recording from TAM8; News Items: Roswell Remembered, Nuclear Explosion in Space, Pepsigate, Energy Vampires, Gravitons and Black Holes, Obesity and Inactivity, Climategate Update, Planck Image of the Universe; Live Q&A: NESS Activities, Do Skeptics Ever Win?, Positive Attitude and Healing, Science of Love, SGU Editing, Art in Skepticism, True Believer Interviews, Live Million Dollar Challenge; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:07.3	Your escape to reality.
0:10.0	Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.
0:18.8	Today is Saturday, July 10, 2010, and we are live from Las Vegas, Nevada, TAM 8.
0:31.2	Joining me this morning, or Bob Novella, everybody.
0:39.6	And just barely Rebecca Watson.
0:46.8	Jane Ovella?
0:47.8	Hello.
0:48.8	Sorry I didn't hear you.
0:53.5	And Evan Bernstein.
0:55.3	You can hardly have a July go by without thinking about Roswell New Mexico, because everyone
1:05.4	knows this week back in 1947 about the famous or infamous, I should say, Roswell lying
1:13.5	disc crashing.
1:15.1	The folks at the Roswell Army Airfield issued their press release stating that the 500
1:19.2	night bomb group recovered a crashed flying disc from a ranch near Roswell.
1:25.4	And the next day, the Air Force reported that it wasn't a disc, it was a radar tracking
1:32.2	balloon that had been recovered and not a flying disc, but folks, Jeannie out of the bottle,
1:38.0	can't take it back.
1:39.8	That was the beginning of the end, essentially.
1:41.4	But that story was dead for 30 years, because it was resurrected in the 1970s by Stan Friedman.
1:49.0	Steve, didn't you, that nobody ever even mentioned bodies in the 1970s?
1:53.1	Right.
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