The Skeptics Guide #297 - Mar 24 2011

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

Dr. Steven Novella MD

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

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🗓️ 26 March 2011

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This Week in Skepticism: Hale Bop Cult; News Items: Meier Earthquake Non-prediction, Swarm Robots, Sexual Preference, Pre-biotic Chemistry, Science fact vs fiction; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Radiation Hormesis, Overunity, Fecal Transplants; Science or Fiction

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0:00.0	You're listening to the skeptic's guide to the universe.
0:05.6	You're escape to reality.
0:10.1	Hello and welcome to the skeptic's guide to the universe.
0:12.3	Today is Thursday, March 24, 2011, and this is your host, Steven Novella.
0:17.3	Joining me this week are Bob Novella.
0:19.3	Hey everybody, Rebecca Watson.
0:21.5	Hello everyone.
0:23.2	And Evan Bernstein.
0:24.7	On March 26, 1997, in a period that comet hail Bob was at its brightest in the sky,
0:31.9	the police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the heavens gate called to a committed
0:37.0	group suicide.
0:38.5	Cheery.
0:39.5	Wow.
0:40.5	Cheery way to start the show.
0:41.5	The heavens gate members believed the planet Earth was about to be recycled or wiped clean.
0:46.0	And the only chance to survive was to leave it immediately.
0:50.4	And so they did?
0:51.4	How'd that work out for them?
0:53.2	Who knows?
0:54.2	They may be great.
0:56.1	It is said though.
0:57.1	The whole notion of cults like that, there is some aspect to human psychology or hard-wiring
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