You're listening to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe, your escape to reality.

Hello and welcome to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe.

This episode is for October 1st, 2011, and this is your host, Stephen Novella.

The show this week is a compilation of the best of the SGU-24 show, which aired on September

23rd and 24th. We did 24 hours of live audio and video streaming. Most of that will be made

available separately. However, the show this week is comprised of selective segments from the

24 hour show. So enjoy. Well, here we are guys. You're probably wondering why I called you all

to the Skeptileair. I'm sorry, the what? Skeptileair? I thought we agreed if you never

recall it that. You agreed. Yeah, I decided and you all agreed. Now you decide that we all

ignore you. So the Skeptileair, nice upgrade, Jay, by the way. I like it. The reason I called

you all together is because of the skeptimeter over there. You can see that it's getting dangerously

close to the red. Is everything just going to have Skeptit in front of it? Skeptitually.

I just have to go. It's Skeptolicious. Skeptolicious. So you know that in the red is a total

gullible worldwide meltdown. We're still in the orange where we're getting awfully close to the

red. Orange is relative state of gullibility, scientific illiteracy in the world, which we've

been sort of wallowing into a while. But now we're almost ready to tip over into gullible,

scientifically illiterate meltdown. So I decided that we need 24 hours with their abouts of

continuous science education and skepticism. We'll work our way around the globe talking to

skeptics and scientists around the world to try to push the meter back at least close somewhat

closer to the yellow. Wait, for hours. Evan, you have a this day in skepticism. No, I said

to come over here to my console to pull up the stain skepticism. Let's see what we got here.

Keep word. How quaint. Evan, what are we looking at? All right. Planet Neptune. Is everyone

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