The Skeptics Guide #27 - Jan 25 2006

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 25 January 2006

⏱️ 70 minutes

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News Items, Ask the Skeptic, Science or Fiction, Two Views of American Education, Government and wacky science

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the skeptic sky to the universe today is Wednesday January 25th 2006.
0:11.2	This is your host Stephen novella president of the New England skeptical society.
0:16.1	Joining me today are Perry de Angeles.
0:19.5	Hello everybody.
0:21.1	Bob novella.
0:22.1	Good day big.
0:23.6	And making a special reappearance, Jane novella.
0:26.4	Good to be back.
0:28.2	Yeah welcome back Jane.
0:29.2	Good to have you again.
0:30.2	Yay.
0:31.2	Welcome Jay.
0:32.2	There is a rumor that Evan Bernstein will be joining us a little later tonight.
0:36.2	He may join us a little bit later.
0:38.2	He's not available at the moment.
0:40.2	So there were a few news items just to get things started.
0:45.2	Evan sent me this one.
0:47.2	The most earth-like planet discovered to date around another star.
0:52.2	Pretty cool.
0:53.2	It is very cool.
0:55.2	The reason why this is interesting because a few months ago this is one of the science or
0:59.8	fictions that we did where the fake one was that astronomers discovered an earth-like
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